Amry
08-08-2006, 12:55 PM
I thought there's a thread about this manga, but I must've been thinking about the pre-reset days. Oh well.
Anyway, I recently acquired the full 28-volume manga of this work by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. For the unitiated, this manga chronicles the adventures of one Ogami Itto, a former executioner for the Shogunate. The Yagyu clan, envious of his position, arranged for the Ogami clan to be disbarred and Ogami to be condemned to seppuku. However, he rebelled, and in a course of +300 chapters, embarked in a journey to totally destroy the House of Yagyu.
Anyway, it's an excellent read. Be warned, of course, that there's some nudity / sex (all tasteful, though, so it's not hentai) and the violence, of course, is present in most pages. The series also gave rise to an offshot manga, Samurai Executioner, but that's for another thread.
http://www.simon-soft.com/Amry/manga/lwac_seppuku.jpg
He got guts. Get it?
The reason I made this one, though, is this : what happened in the end? After reading chapter 28....
Ogami dies. Retsudo got stabbed. He clutched Dogoro and called him his grandson. Everyone else cries. So... what? Huh? So who won?
Anyway, I recently acquired the full 28-volume manga of this work by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. For the unitiated, this manga chronicles the adventures of one Ogami Itto, a former executioner for the Shogunate. The Yagyu clan, envious of his position, arranged for the Ogami clan to be disbarred and Ogami to be condemned to seppuku. However, he rebelled, and in a course of +300 chapters, embarked in a journey to totally destroy the House of Yagyu.
Anyway, it's an excellent read. Be warned, of course, that there's some nudity / sex (all tasteful, though, so it's not hentai) and the violence, of course, is present in most pages. The series also gave rise to an offshot manga, Samurai Executioner, but that's for another thread.
http://www.simon-soft.com/Amry/manga/lwac_seppuku.jpg
He got guts. Get it?
The reason I made this one, though, is this : what happened in the end? After reading chapter 28....
Ogami dies. Retsudo got stabbed. He clutched Dogoro and called him his grandson. Everyone else cries. So... what? Huh? So who won?