FREE BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL: LEGEND OF THE SWORD DEMON PDF Junichi Ohsako,Hiroaki Samura | 224 pages | 09 Feb 2010 | Dark Horse Comics,U.S. | 9781595823380 | English | Milwaukie, United States Blade of the Immortal) | Blade of the immortal, Manga artist, Cool drawings Yoko Yamamoto is the mysterious Yaobikuni, an year-old nun who infuses the power of immortality Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon Manji. After a brutal and bloody battle, slain samurai warrior Manji is brought back to life by a mysterious witch Yaobikuni and cursed with immortality. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only by fighting evil will he regain his soul. The mission sees Manji caught up in a plot by Anotsu to grab power as he battles bizarre henchmen in his quest for redemption. Takashi does make sure however to hold onto his quirky distinctive Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon whilst keeping the film firmly rooted in its Manga source right down to the look of the characters, with their trendy uniforms and punk hairstyles. The sword action comes blood-drenched, very thick and super fast with everyone from Manji himself to Sabato and the main villain Anotsu sporting a variety of unusual and colourful weaponry — from the Japanese take on the three-section staff to two Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon connected forming a deadly staff — slicing and dicing in every fight scene. The fights are certainly chaotic and at times obscure in some of the action but not enough to deter any sense of entertainment from the ensuing carnage. This veritable cocktail of sorrow, swordplay and double dealing make the two and a half hour running time simply zip by. Yes there is more swordplay to boot yet Miike chooses wisely to mix in some mind games with the action elevating the showdowns to a more moving finish with a twist. When he moved to the UK, martial arts came calling in his early teens in the shape of the mysterious art of Ki Aikido which he studied for five years. Ramon is an aspiring writer and when he is not honing his craft he likes to go out running, hiking and is still trying to count to ten in Japanese. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Kung-fu Kingdom KFK is a team of dedicated martial arts enthusiasts. We are writers, martial arts practitioners and film-makers consumed by a passion for everything connected to the martial arts, and we love sharing it! Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. 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Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon | Novel - Reviews - Blade of the Immortal, Hiroaki Samura's samurai tale, reaches the end of its long run this week with the publication of Volume Dark Horse began publishing the series inBlade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon a time when manga was not only flipped but chopped into single-issue comics. The world has changed a lot since then, and so has Blade. Samura spent almost 20 years writing and drawing the series, and his storytelling style evolved quite a bit over the years. Samura's superb art belies the startling violence of his story: Manji, a renegade samurai, cannot die because his body harbors bloodworms that heal every wound. To shake the curse of immortality, he must kill 1, evil men. Samura fills the pages with baroque villains and and elaborate weapons of his own invention. The early volumes have a punk feel to them, but eventually he settles into a more traditional style. Philip Simon, who has been the editor of the series sincespoke with ROBOT 6 about working on Blade of the Immortal and how the manga itself and the way it was presented have changed over the years. He also shared an exclusive first look at the artwork from the final volume. Brigid Alverson: How long have you been the editor of Blade of the Immortal? I first started working on this series in March when I arrived at Dark Horse. Because of that, I am extremely fond of and already a bit nostalgic for the series, especially our comic book run. The Blade monthly comic series was one of the longest running monthly manga series in the United States — if not the longest serialized run — at issues! The manga industry was very different when Dark Horse started publishing the series in Do you know what it was about this manga that made it a good fit for the audience at that Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon In the late '80s and early '90s, I believe the popularity of shonen and seinen titles dictated what a lot of publishers were releasing. There was a lot of retailer confidence in those genres, and sales at the time pushed things in that direction. Most manga series were being released as flopped, monthly comic books, too, before being collected! Dark Horse had released some classic manga titles, and Blade of the Immortal felt like a perfect fit to expand the line. Some spin-off projects, like the anime series and the light novel tie-in from several years Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon, only seemed to remind readers how great the original source manga is. In the early volumes, Samura sort of stops the action when the actual kill happens, turning it into a splash page with a very static, often symmetric design. Do you have any insight into why he did that in the beginning, and why he stopped later on? I feel that Rin is the real heart of the series and the story — Rin and her relation to and fixation on Itto-ryu leader Anotsu. Samura evolved as a storyteller. But everyone misses those great death spreads and splash pages. Samura did them so well! As someone who has been involved with the series Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon a long time, what other major changes did you see Samura make along the way to his art and storytelling style? Rin goes on a long quest to free him. Did you ever have the opportunity to talk to Samura about the series? If so, what did he have to say? Hiroaki Samura didn't want his art flipped, so the panels were rearranged instead. What was the process for doing that? Studio Proteus founder Toren Smith brought Blade of the Immortal to Dark Horse many years ago, and when we ended our Blade comic-book run with Issue I asked Toren to write something about the series. He wrote the following about the English-language page layout process:. Speaking to Samura, he was dubious about flopping his art. Since this was back in the Dark Ages, when retailers and distributors were wary of unflopped manga, we didn't have much choice. Still, initially he refused. Later, after the first tankobon had come out, I sat down with it and partway through made a realization. As his layout and storytelling skills had matured, he had moved to an unusual style—almost all of his panels were rectangular. For an idea how Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon this is, grab any manga off your shelf and compare. I made a few photocopies of his pages and pasted them up with the panels unreversed, but the order of the panels reversed. It worked. Studio Proteus put together a sequence of about ten pages and sent them off to Samura, and he was intrigued. While he had done some work early on that was not amenable to this technique, he suggested that he'd redraw a few panels here and there as needed. I knew we could trim bleeds, and if I kept sharp while doing the rewrite I could move the readers along correctly with strategic repositioning of the word Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon and tweaking the dialog.