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Mugen-no-Juunin
Topic Started: Feb 29 2008, 09:50 PM (225 Views)
nuumamonjaa
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lorena babidi
Well with all the criminally generic-looking LOLSHONENJUMP manga cramping up this section, I figured I'd post something worth looking into.

Mugen-no-Juunin (Blade of the Immortal) by Hiroaki Samura is about a wanted swordsman named Manji, who has been given the Kessen-Chu (Bloodworms) which live in his tissue and blood stream and prevent him from dying from any wound or poison (save the rare Kessen-Satsu). The only way he can get rid of them is by killing 1,000 evil men and getting the old woman who distributed them into his body to give him the antidote. He meets a teenage orphan named Rin, who wishes to hire him to take revenge on an up and coming Ryu (sword school) named Itto-Ryu, who invaded her dojo 2 years ago and killed her family and all it's students.
Manji agrees, hoping to wrack up a large enough body count to free himself from the pain of immortality.
Possibly the best-looking manga (or any graphic fiction, save Sandman: Endless Nights) and most adrenaline pumping manga on the market.

You can download all the recent chapters from http://www.gotlurk.net/ if you have mIRC if you can read Japanese or just want to admire the artwork. For now, here is a taste of some of the recent sketches:

Asaemon the Demon

Habaki Kagimura, the "Bangashira"

Shira

Manji the Immortal Swordsman

Rin haha I love this picture


These pics are all from my photobucket, btw. I have volumes 18-21 full to read if anyone wants to casually browse and look at the cool fight scenes.

Also, here is a link to the free english scans for anyone interested in actually READING it who can't understand a lick of Japanese. Keep in mind that the english scanlations are NOT torrents nor downloads, they are simply an MSN group channel that posts raw scans of the monthly US Dark Horse issues:

English Scans (Volumes 1-15)
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Cool, Japanese stick footage. I gotta see more vids of ppl's hands on sticks cuz I suck on 'em.
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iLurk
So, is it out in English. Or; not?
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nuumamonjaa
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lorena babidi
yup.
You'll have to look around for scans as I don't recall the site that had 1-15 in english.
Or you can just go read it at borders/b&n.
It's produced by Dark Horse (in the US)
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Cool, Japanese stick footage. I gotta see more vids of ppl's hands on sticks cuz I suck on 'em.
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iLurk
Yay, something that won't take me 3 weeks to read yet still provides thought provoking material!
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I can assume.
It sounds interesting. I'll see if I can find any at Borders this weekend, if I can get a ride.
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Woo just found the link to Volumes 1-15 of english Blade of the Immortal
I edited it into the first post.
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Cool, Japanese stick footage. I gotta see more vids of ppl's hands on sticks cuz I suck on 'em.
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