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Blade of the Immortal Volume 6 Kindle & comiXology
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDark Horse Manga
- Publication dateDecember 17, 2014
- File size849780 KB
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- ASIN : B00QKZZU7W
- Publisher : Dark Horse Manga (December 17, 2014)
- Publication date : December 17, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 849780 KB
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- Print length : 192 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #990,600 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,731 in Fantasy Manga (Kindle Store)
- #8,471 in Action & Adventure Manga (Books)
- #12,935 in Fantasy Manga (Books)
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Before, the story arcs of BotI fell into a comfortable pattern: Rin and Manji wandering around until they met a member of the Itto-ryu; the usual banter and posturing before blades are drawn; Manji getting carved on to lesser or greater extent; Rin struggling with and attempting to moralize what is essentially a revenge killing spree. Using this pattern, Samura explored a number of themes, such as obsession/compulsion ('Conflict'), ethics ('Cry of the Worm'), duty ('Dreamsong'), redemption ('On Silent Wings').
With 'Dark Shadows', however, Samura dramatically changes the formula, and just in time. Not that the story was getting stale--far from it--but some overall progression was needed, and here we have it: in this volume characters and situations are introduced that will effect the rest of the work as a whole (12 or so compilations worth in Japan), and Anotsu Kagehisa slowly begins to take his place as the manga's true protagonist, a man willing to do anything to save his country from what he perceives as steady stagnation. If there are casualties along the way, so be it.
Manji and Rin show up only in the last third, and there isn't much in the way of 'action' (at least in comparison to bloody epics like 'Dreamsong'). Still, one can feel a tension slowly building under the surface, a conflict-in-waiting that explodes in the next comp, 'Heart of Darkness.' And the repercussions of this volume are long-standing; in terms of plot development, this the most important volume (next to the first, of course)released so far. Not to be missed or overlooked.
As always, the artwork in Blade of the Immortal is superb, and the writing and characterization are as strong as the previous volumes. If there's a flaw here, it's that the focus of the story leaves Rin and Manji (with whom we've basically remained throughout the previous 5 volumes) for too long--they're in less than half of this volume. But that's a quibble, really; watching how the Itto-ryu is growing and splintering all at once, and how its enemies have begun to move is fascinating. As always, this is a violent story, but it could hardly be otherwise with the characters involved. If you've read previous volumes, you know what to expect; if you haven't you need to--both to understand what's going on, and just because you need to if you're at all interested in comics.
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De modo geral, a história tem um ritmo agradável e sem pontas soltas. A história não se perde em "encheção de linguiça", o que é comum séries longas. O design dos personagens também é bem legal, percebe-se que o autor tem uma capacidade criativa considerável, dado ao grande número de personagens na história.
O único ponto negativo é a inutilidade de alguns personagens. Parece que alguns foram criados apenas para serem assassinados e cumprir a "cota de sangue" por volume.
Eis que Blade, a lâmina do imortal surge e trás consigo:
- Arte belíssima. Hiroaki Samura é um mestre. Alguns desenhos feitos a lápis vão te deixar parado olhando pra página por minutos. Você imaginaria facilmente um quadro na parede com aquele traço.
- Edição cara pra se comprar em banca, mas pegando as promoções da amazon, vale muito a pena. As edições equivalem a 4 volumes da antiga coleção da da Conrad, descontinuada. O papel é bom e o material é o que se tem de melhor nos mangás atualmente (ainda que haja espaço para melhoras).
- O enredo é espetacular. A vingança é o tema central, mas prepare-se para ler um épico onde você entende as motivações e argumentos de todos os lados. Você não sabe de que lado ficar e fica agoniado para saber o que o autor decidiu pro fim. Junte isso ao fato que o protagonista é imortal e seu desejo é morrer. Ele não aguenta mais, passou de melhor espadachim do mundo a um espadachim preguiçoso (já que não pode morrer). Tudo num contexto que poderia ser real, sem fantasias demais.
Resumindo, Blade é um mangá atemporal e um dos melhores de todos os tempos.