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無限の住人 [Mugen no Jūnin] #5

by Hiroaki Samura

Aliran Itto kembali berulah. Di satu sisi, Hyakurin berhasil menjebak dan membunuh salah satu anggota aliran itu yang bernama Sumino Kenei. Magatsu, salah satu anggota aliran itu pun memutuskan keluar. Bagaimanakah perjalanan Aliran Itto selanjutnya? Di lain pihak, Rin yang hidup bersama Manji akhirnya memutuskan untuk membalaskan dendam orangtuanya yang dibunuh Aliran Itto. Berhasilkah rencana Rin?

Genres: Manga, Comics, Action, Seinen, Fiction, Fantasy, Drama

214 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 1996

About the author

Hiroaki Samura ( 沙村広明) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for writing and illustrating the manga Blade of the Immortal (1993-2012). Among his other manga series Die Wergelder (2011-2018) and Wave, Listen to Me!, the latter serialised since 2014.

Reviews

[Rubén · Rating 4 out of 5]

Carajo! Este tomo si estuvo algo violento O_O

[Jarsuke · Rating 1 out of 5]

Die Zeichnungen waren nicht gut und auch so hat es mir auch nicht sonderlich von der Geschichte gefallen.

[Vladimir Veškovac · Rating 2 out of 5]

Konfuzno. Jedna epizoda bude fenomenalna, druga toliko konfuzno da imam utisak da čitam dva različita stripa.

[Shin Donghae · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alur cerita menghadirkan beragam karakter di sekeliling Manji dan Rin yang membuat penokohan karakter Rin berkembang dengan baik.

[Jinx:The:Poet {the LiteraryWanderer & WordRoamer} · Rating 5 out of 5]

[REVIEW FOR THE SERIES...]

Blade of the Immortal (Vol. 1-31)

Blade of the Immortal (Japanese: 無限の住人 Hepburn: Mugen no Jūnin, lit. "The Inhabitant of Infinity") is a Japanese seinen manga series by Hiroaki Samura. The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the samurai Manji, cursed with eternal life, who now has to kill 1000 evil men in order to regain his mortality. The series ran from 1993 to 2012, and has garnered itself quite a fan following and now has several animated and movie adaptions.



The Blade of the Immortal series is perhaps one of my top favorite manga series of all time and I’ve read a lot of manga in my life. I’m still not completely sure what it is about this series that worked for me; all I know is it did. The truth is it is a very dark, violent, historical manga with elements of fantasy and mysticism. Much of it involves very gritty and gory sword fighting scenes and super fascinating cast of characters, heroes, villains and all shades in between. The story keeps you on the edge of your seat, if you manage push past the first few chapters, which can be very confusing honestly. Once you get into the meat of it though, it becomes enthralling, disturbing and even emotional. And the art...well it’s exquisite and only improves as you continue through the volumes... Check it.



WOW. Epic no? So this is Manji, our cursed yet extremely skilled samurai hero (anti-hero?) who is on a quest to kill 1000 evil men in oder to relieve himself of this curse and die peacefully. So it all starts when he is the cause of the death of 100 good samurai, due to his criminal actions, and is cursed to immortality, (by means of "sacred bloodworms" (血仙蟲 kessen-chū) that allow him to survive nearly every injury and even reattach dismembered limbs, by a 800-year-old nun. After a tragic turn of events he then vows to make amends for his sins that will allow his curse to be ended. This dark endeavor for redemption causes him much sorrow and suffering, but Manji always manages to persevere. His life only gets more complicated, however, when he meets Rin.



Manji later crosses paths with a young girl, named Asano Rin, and promises to help her avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by the mysterious and evil Anotsu Kagehisa. Anotsu killed Rin's father and his entire dōjō, making them a family of outcasts. Anotsu's quest is to gather other outcasts and form an extremely powerful new dojo, the Ittō-ryū (a school teaching any technique that wins, no matter how exotic or underhanded), and has started taking over and destroying other dojos, and threatens to defy the honorable system of the samurai realm.



Manji and Rin team up together to hunt down the savage Anotsu, which leads them on a perilous adventure, down a simultaneous path of revenge and redemption. I love the platonic dynamic between Manji and Rin. This series is a wonderfully thought out read, amazing illustrated and filled to the brim with action, excitement, mystery, and suspense and of course, a load of violent sword fighting scenes. There are a series of other interesting characters that I will not go into in this review, but suffice it to say, Blade of the Immortal is a read to remember. I highly recommend this to seinen manga fans, but not to the squeamish or faint of heart. This is a very graphic series.

[OFFICIAL RATING: 4.8 STARS]