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Kurogane 1 (Kurogane #1)
by
Kei Toume
BLACK STEEL
Avenging his father’s murder is a matter of honor for the young samurai Jintetsu. But it turns out that the killer is a corrupt government official–and now the powers that be are determined to hunt Jintetsu down like an animal. There’s only one problem: Jintetsu is already dead.
Torn to pieces by a pack of dogs, Jintetsu’s ravaged body has been found by Genkichi,...more
Avenging his father’s murder is a matter of honor for the young samurai Jintetsu. But it turns out that the killer is a corrupt government official–and now the powers that be are determined to hunt Jintetsu down like an animal. There’s only one problem: Jintetsu is already dead.
Torn to pieces by a pack of dogs, Jintetsu’s ravaged body has been found by Genkichi,...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
June 27th 2006
by Del Rey
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Strange but interesting! It's basically a robot samurai manga, and at first I thought I wouldn't like it, but Jintetsu is a character that really grows on you, and his story is so compellingly tragic that you're invested before you know what you're doing. The art work is certainly not the best I've seen but certainly not the worst either, it's about middle of the road. All told its really pretty good! I look forward to reading more of this series!
Historical manga (Edo period) from the author of the pretty good vampira manga called Lament of the lamb. The art and the athmoshpere is kinda similar to Blade of the Immortal. The author is a woman but it doesn't show much. No room for romance and lots of blood. Not sure where this story about a samurai with an artificial body is heading to but it sure has been interesting so far.
Really quick read since there's lots of action and the main character doesn't speak. There seems to be a lot of intravillage politics going on which isn't particularly my thing. I'd be a bit more interested in the mechanics of how the robo-samurai works. The style of faces is pretty similar across characters, but otherwise I appreciate the artwork.
[Series Length: 5 volumes / Read: volumes 1-5]
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Kei Toume studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Her first manga, Rokujō gekijō, was published in Comic Burger magazine in 1992. The manga won her the Shiki prize in a contest held by Kodansha in 1993. A year later, her follow-up manga Mannequin also won a prize.
She started the series Lament of the Lamb in Comic Burger in 1996. This series ran for six years and was adapted into a radio...more
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