“Edo-era samurai manga: gritty, violent, socially raw; Hirata's expressive art depicts warriors adrift in peacetime.”
Satsuma Gishiden
薩摩義士伝
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Edo-era samurai manga: gritty, violent, socially raw; Hirata's expressive art depicts warriors adrift in peacetime.
This is the Edo-era samurai guts. Controversial, tough, angry, highly skilled and lost in a time of peace, the characters of Satsuma Gishiden tell a quasi-historical tale of social caste and brutal reprisal. Readers with a taste for Kazuo Koike's gritty Lone Wolf & Cub will go nuts for master gekiga artist Hiroshi Hirata's tome of samurai struggle. Hirata's art and calligraphy leap off the page during scenes of action, only to unfold upon a full bleed that looks like a fine plate print. It's art at is most expressive, accentuating the classic stoic samurai characters you've come to know, only with a little more true society thrown in to help the reader understand what it was really like to be a warrior without a war. (Source: Dark Horse Comics)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 35 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 40m approx
- Published Jan 1977 – Jan 1982
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2580 catalog