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Blade of the Immortal Volume 11 Kindle & comiXology
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDark Horse Manga
- Publication dateSeptember 6, 2016
- File size817953 KB
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- ASIN : B01HOKGDJU
- Publisher : Dark Horse Manga (September 6, 2016)
- Publication date : September 6, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 817953 KB
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Think it would be great to live forever? Manji, a crass ronin of eighteenth century Japan, doesn't agree. Cursed to immortal life for prior misdeeds, he must dispatch a thousand evil men to the judgment of the Buddha in order to die himself. Joining a young girl on her quest for vengeance against the rebellious Itto-Ryu sword school, Manji soon has dire need for his twelve blades as he faces a motley of hardened warriors, psychopaths, philosophers and just plain jokers. The thousand-man requiem is met by the painful stroke of give-and-take; and is told in a fashion that puts most modern epics to shame.
Now with that said, I have a bone to pick with Dark Horse. Manji is not present in this volume, yet his face (cool as it is) adorns the cover of "beasts" and would seem a blatant selling point to ignorant fans of the series. I take offense to this on an _asthetic_ level---I'm well aware that the Japanese and Thai graphic novels use this cover as well---but a picture of Hyakurin (the main character of this particular episode) would be much more appropriate. Still, I'm not _quite_ as upset as I was to find that the beautful Anotsu cover of "secrets" had been replaced with the armless manji-in-action from "The Gathering" #12--now that was TRULY a travesty!!
Anyway, on with the review (warning---some spoilers ahead). This long storyarc features a bunch of Itto-Ryu swordsmen who have 'gone rogue' (an oxymoron, I know) to settle an old score with the Mugai-Ryu. Hyakurin is captured and tortured for information. Giichi searchs the whorehouse district of Tatsumi for her. Events lead up to the typical Samura showdown: lots of hacked-off limbs and macho posturing, though ol' Giich is a bit more reserved than the average kenchi. Several dream sequences flesh out the personalities of Hyakurin and Shinriji, and expose some of the conflicts inherent within Japanese culture and society.
A note on the review below: considering how sex is portrayed by the bulk of adult Japanese anime/manga, Samura actually handles the material with far more subtely and sensitivity than his contemporaries. There is no real nudity, and the most offensive act is thankfully restrained by a dream/memory sequence. Still, this is a fairly harrowing storyarc, about as rough as "Heart of Darkness", and those of a weak violence-threshold need not venture further.
Five stars. Hopefully Dark Horse is saving that Anotsu cover for the storyarc after Fall Frost...