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Blade of the Immortal: Omnibus, Volume 1
by Hiroaki Samura
The artwork is so beautifully drawn it'd be easy to just flip through this without actually reading it. Of course if you do that you'll miss the widely anachronistic dialogue that really adds a nice touch to this universe. Having some characters speak in an overly modern fashion does give them a less formal attitude that works well with the dirty, assholic immortal warrior Manji.
I think when I first started reading this I wanted a less fantastic and more down to earth samurai story, but as I got further and further into it, I understood the magic, the language, the over the top violence all meshed together in a really satisfying way.
The story is fairly straight forward but I found myself getting a little lost at times. Manji, a warrior cursed with immortality until he kills one thousand men. He encounters a young girl named Rin who is on a quest for revenge, so he reluctantly agrees to help her.
I really enjoyed the chemistry between Manji and Rin. Manji, as mentioned earlier is a real jerk (at least on the outside) so the dynamic between the two is pretty amusing. It becomes clear there's more going on beneath the surface, but I do like their weirdly flirty brother/sister dynamic.
I also really enjoyed that Manji loses fights a lot. I expected him to be an unstoppable killing machine because of his immortality, but I guess he kind of got lazy since he can't die. Why bother being the best when you can just use your lack of death as an advantage?
For anyone else who has never read any samurai manga, I'd highly recommend this as a first step.
I think when I first started reading this I wanted a less fantastic and more down to earth samurai story, but as I got further and further into it, I understood the magic, the language, the over the top violence all meshed together in a really satisfying way.
The story is fairly straight forward but I found myself getting a little lost at times. Manji, a warrior cursed with immortality until he kills one thousand men. He encounters a young girl named Rin who is on a quest for revenge, so he reluctantly agrees to help her.
I really enjoyed the chemistry between Manji and Rin. Manji, as mentioned earlier is a real jerk (at least on the outside) so the dynamic between the two is pretty amusing. It becomes clear there's more going on beneath the surface, but I do like their weirdly flirty brother/sister dynamic.
I also really enjoyed that Manji loses fights a lot. I expected him to be an unstoppable killing machine because of his immortality, but I guess he kind of got lazy since he can't die. Why bother being the best when you can just use your lack of death as an advantage?
For anyone else who has never read any samurai manga, I'd highly recommend this as a first step.