Name: Blade of the Immortal
Rating: 4.653846153846154 (52 reviews)
ISBN: 9781616553371

Hiroaki Samura

Tomoko Saito

Philip R. Simon

Disgraced Edo officer Habaki and his strange group of Rokki-dan thugs turn a seemingly innocent harbor into a port of death--killing everyone who's docked there just in case they're working with Anotsu's fleeing warriors! And when revenge-seeking Rin, her bodyguard Manji, desperate Anotsu, and possibly the most powerful Ittō-ryū soldier arrive? This really is the start of Blade of the immortal's final, extended battle!

Beyond good and evil

Blade of the Immortal

Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality and to rid his eternal suffering and lift the curse, he must slay one thousand enemies, and his quest begins with a young girl who seeks revenge on her parents' killers.

Blade of the Immortal: Dreamsong

Tim Pendry

This is the ultra-violent but superbly drawn first part of a multiple samurai manga series which first appeared from 1994 in Japan and then was reproduced by Dark Horse Manga in the West from 1997. The introduction in the Western Edition provides useful background on why Hiroaki Samura's graphic novel of a ronin who must kill a thousand evil men to regain his mortality is important - because of the use of street language within the conventions of the samurai traditions. The introduction, naturally enough, explains to a Western adolscent audience why the East Asian use of the swastika, an essential part of the identity of the 'hero' Manji is not to be confused with its use by Western national socialists. As to the graphic design, the brutal bloodletting and even semi-perversion (and association of violence with sexual rapacity) will not please those of a gentle disposition but some of the single full page depictions, of a violence that is fast yet stylized, are undoubtedly impressive - the nearest graphic equivalent to the swift motion captured in a samurai movie. This is definitely not 'nice' but it is art.

Gavin

Another pit of ultraviolence with an edgy protagonist, but without the tragic vision and unified style of Berserk. I guess it's nice that someone occasionally tells a joke.

Dimitris Papastergiou

Manji, the immortal samurai, is condemned to a life of combat until he slays a thousand evil men. He works as bodyguard for Rin, a young woman who seeks to avenge her father's murder at the hands of the deadly Kagehisa Anotsu. But even with Manji's instruction, will Rin ever be able to stand against such a powerful and ruthless adversary? And in her consuming quest for vengeance, does she risk becoming like him?

Blade of the Immortal Volume 4

James Miller

Volume 2

Magnus Dahl

Miguel Angel

"The harrowing, bone-crunching finale to Hiroaki Samura's long-running manga series! Blade of the Immortal ends with a massive, 280-page volume filled with action and suspense and overflowing with heartbreak and bloodshed! Disgraced Edo officer Habaki faces the devious Anotsu in a decisive showdown, while Manji, Rin, and only a few others witness the end of an era."--Page 4 of cover.

Kagehisa's Itto-Ryu crew is splintered - yet still deadly - as Habaki Kagimura's group of suicidal Rokki-dan soldiers closes in on them! The cursed former general Kagimura is desperate to find and kill the remaining members of the Itto-Ryu - even if it puts his own daughter's life on the line!

Mist on the spider's web

Dana Lewis

Toren Smith

Mirror of the Soul

Last Blood

Blade of the Immortal, Volume 4

Trickster

Volume 6

Blade of the Immortal, Volume 8

Blade of the Immortal, Volume 5

Autumn frost

Volume 10

Blade of the Immortal, Volume 7

The immortal samurai Manji must deal with merciless killers while Rin's quest for revenge puts her in danger.

Blade of the Immortal Beyond good and evil

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