coeli

Does anyone read samurai-themed manga? Or is there anyone interested in samurai? I've read a few titles and a lot of them are my favorites, including:

Lone Wolf and Cub
Samurai Executioner
Rurouni Kenshin
Lady Snowblood (this is debatable)
Samurai Champloo

Has anyone ever read these or possibly other titles, perhaps?

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Abu Dhabi

KURO GANE (from Del Ray) is a super good samurai manga...

basically a wandering samurai is killed by a group of ravenous dogs, and then a hermit dutch scientist/doll maker gives him a robot body (mind you, this is like 1800s so everything looks cool and steam-tech). however, the robot cannot speak cuz he doesn't have a robot voice box. becuz of this, the doll man gave him one of his first creations, a sword that can talk (another unlukcy samurai, his mind, eye and voice were transfered into the sword). the doll man dies before he can give the samurai a voice box, so the robot and sword become a good team. one speaks and the other acts.

that's how the story begins, then it follows his exploits as a wanderer. the stories are crazy deep and the character development is some of the best i've seen. the characters feel real, as do their emotions, which is very different from most manga today. they even give you the historical facts that pertain to the story in the ack of the book, as well as explain any cultural refrences. there's also a very detailed glossary to explain foreign words!

^_^ an easy 10 out of 10 for me!

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Umbriel

I've read some, but the only one that really come to mind at this second is Samurai Champloo. I love it. I enjoy the anime as well. I'll look through what I have, and get back to ya'.

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coeli

@abu dhabi I've got to try Kurogane then =)

@Umbriel I enjoyed Samurai Champloo manga more than the anime story-wise. But if it weren't animated, I don't think I'd have appreciated Mugen more!

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blindzzz

The greatest samurai kind manga I have ever read is Blade of the Immortal. It has a great story which made me to read it without taking a single break... This manga totaly rules. I think all of you should try it!

coeli

@blindzzz I have until vol. 15 of BOTI, but I haven't really had the time to read it (more like I've forgotten that I have it).

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blindzzz

You should read it it till end it is realy great... But there are more great mangas out there somwhere waiting to be read.

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Wandering around

Searching for bad guys

coeli

That's true. I've read almost 250 titles already but I find something new and interesting to read everyday.

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sparrowsmagic

ello i think i've read Rurouni Kenshin but i've surely seent the anime.

it wasn't as great as i thought it would be.

it was like i kinda remember it but it doesn't really stick in my head

coeli

I liked the manga more than the anime though. After the Kyoto arc, RK just kinda went downhill from there. Sure, the Shimabara Arc was still interesting, with Shogo Amakusa as the main antagonist that time, the fights were still good and all. But Jinpu and his feng shui crap just destroyed it all.

Those weren't in the manga, and just that made the manga 10 times better than the anime lol.

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DollCorpse

I have read Rurouni Kenshin, and have watched the Samurai Champloo anime. Of course, I've only watched the anime a long time ago, so I don't remember it so well. I still read Rurouni Kenshin, though.

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DollCorpse