thoughts on BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL

[bubu]

hindi ko alam kung san thread to ilalagay kasi manga eh.

but anyway, mr.manji lead character is a rurounin <tama ba? ewan>
nakaka aliw basahin
especially the fight scenes in the story

haven't finished the whole manga, hanggang second book pa lang ako.

anyway, your thoughts??

[with_a_K]

Ha! Blade's my favorite comic book, and I'm up to book 5. I love it because it's not a typical samurai story because no one is a typical samurai (heh). Manji can be termed as a ruruoni (wanderer) but he is what is generally recognized as a ronin (masterless samurai). Of course, most ronin lose their masters (daimyo) in war, not like Manji who killed his daimyo (another heh). Keep reading it, it gets better and better.

[Mikoid]

Ooooh, feudal Japan stories!!! Where can I buy it? Is it in English? What's it all about?

[with_a_K]

To answer your questions Mikoid:
- You can buy it (in TPB or single issue form) from most fine purveyors of comics.
- Yes it is in English, translated by Studio Proteus and published by Dark Horse Comics.
- As for what it's about... kinda hard to encapsulate the story, but in a nusthell, Manji (our protagonist) is a honorless ronin, one of the best sword fighters in Japan, and cursed with immortality until he kills one thousand evil men. Blade of the Immortal makes Ruruoni Kenshin look like a parade of big eyed weenies! (although I enjoy Kenshin as well).

[Jacob]

I have deliberately stayed away from Blade Of The Immortal. Because I know my wallet would be sucked dry. Waaaaah! Ito pa naman ang gusto kong genre!