“Orphaned samurai-Indian boy trains to become the West's greatest gunslinger after brutal childhood.”
Kouya no Shounen Isamu
荒野の少年イサム
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Orphaned samurai-Indian boy trains to become the West's greatest gunslinger after brutal childhood.
Isamu was born under a rough sign – a Japanese father, an American Indian mother, both killed by a group of racist thugs in the old west, and rescued by one of the most wanted men of the era. The son of a samurai and an Indian tracker he could become the most powerful gunslinger in the west – if can only survive one of the roughest childhoods anyone has ever seen… (Source: Animeraider)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 37 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 56m approx
- Published Aug 1971 – Dec 1973
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M23868 catalog