I finally started reading this after hearing all the buzz about the anime. Holy. Fucking. Shit...

How is the fight choreography?

This is nowhere close to Berserk and Vagabond and drops in quality after vol 12 or so.

The art or the story? Because the story was shit from volume 1.

I love his new manga, it's funny

How so?

It doesn't really focus on fight choreography during fights but it's decent. The pencil art makes it difficult to tell sometimes but nothing too bad.

>How so?
Not even close to Berserk quality drop, just little bit maybe

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I was in the exact same position as you user. Let me tell you now, you wont be disappointed by the end. It's a fucking top-class story and the art just makes it that infinitely better. I like how realistic, yet stylized Samura's characters are drawn and he doesn't let down with the landscapes either.
I always wondered why it took him 19 years to complete it though. It only has around 200 chapters.

Are there decents scans of the first hundred or so chapters anywhere?

dex is your friend

First 7 volumes on Madokami

Anotsu and Habaki`s duel is real fucking kino.
Both of them are such good characters.

The big arm was the epitome of kino.

Based post. Blade of the Immortal is my favorite manga. Final arc is elder god-tier.
Also, Doa a best, a best!

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I thought the series was great until the girl starting hanging out with the guy who she was trying to kill for a bit, and then all tension was lost and I dropped it

Shounentard found

But that felt like the most shonen part of the series...

If you like Samura's pencilwork and the way he writes characters, don't miss out on his other series. Especially Wave, and Beageruta/Wergelder.

>I always wondered why it took him 19 years to complete it though. It only has around 200 chapters.
It was serialized monthly.
That's 228 months for 206 chapters, nothing strange about that.

Mangasee has scans of the dark horse releases. It's left-to-right, but the quality is really good.
mangaseeonline.us/manga/Blade-Of-The-Immortal

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The art is great, can't say the same about the story

>Samura thread
Neat. Maybe this time someone can tell me where to find Ohikkoshi?

>Ohikkoshi
manga-here.club/ohikkoshi/chapter-1

Great series but it was sad to see Manji get sidelined in his own manga. Anotsu and Habaki were much more interesting characters and their storys arcs actually got a proper conclusion. Manji whole redemption plot got dropped and never became really relevant again.

Bless your kind heart

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>Manji whole redemption plot got dropped and never became really relevant again.
Damn, I'm glad I stopped reading. Manji was the only part of the series I really cared about

>caring about one of the least interesting characters in the series

I really liked Halcyon Lunch, that was a pretty fun one.

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It's not. You're missing out big time on the Rin and Anotsu story and missing the point.

Was he? Nobody else seemed that interesting from where I read up to

>missing the point
Rin being utterly incompetent and annoying?

>Wave anime soon
The PVs were pretty good.

>Manji whole redemption plot got dropped and never became really relevant again.
The whole point is that there's nothing for Manji to get 'redeemed' from. He wants to kill 1000 evil men for redemption, but it's just an arbitrary goal, a point is made out of evil not being some definitive characteristic that you can objectively tell. Manji wont change when he kills 1000 evil men. He is immortal, he is one of the more static character in the entire series and is pretty much the same from beginning to end. There was no big degeneration into becoming an evil person for him that he can 'redeem' himself from.
That's the whole point, by the end of the story all he does is go around and help little girls with their problems, he's got nothing better to do and at his core he is a kind person. You're not looking into it enough if you think Manji's 'redemption plot' was relevant at all, that was an extremely surface layer 1-dimensional layer of the story that was peeled away after the first arc and over the course of the series is further explored in detail to then be characterized by the ending and Manji's character.

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>Rin
>Incompetent
Did you not read the prison arc? What she manages on her own over the course of the story is quite amazing considering she is not a good swordsman at all.
Rin is extremely focused on her goal, but she is also very aware of her own limits.
Pay attention to her dialogue when it comes to morality and when it comes to killing Anotsu and keep it in mind. This isn't a series where you can skim over the writing and still have a grip on the characters motivations when big stuff happens.

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I read 89 chapters, can't remember if that covered the prison arc or not

Recently heard about that Bakumatsu Blade of the Immortal spinoff/sequel, checked out the raws of the first chapter and dropped it like ten pages in because just from those few pages you could tell that the art and the story were just lackluster.

You are absolutely retarded and probably shouldn’t pick up a manga outside of the shounen demographic again

Who's doing it? I know Samura isn't working on it

>redemption plot
How thick in the head do you have to be to not realize it was never about Manji like that? Fucking speedreader

It isn’t drawn or written by the same author so I’ve been hesitant on picking it up. Like, what’s the point of a sequel being done by completely different people?

>dialogue when it comes to morality and when it comes to killing Anotsu
could you explain in a spoiler bar, it’s been so long since i’ve read so my mind is rusty

It doesn't

Please stick to shounen, you'll find you belong there.

>hur dur not strong,not a good character

Shounenfags in a nutshell.

It's written some random dude with another one doing the art, never read anything from either of them. The art isn't complete shit or anything, just very forgettable, and the story seems like a very by the numbers Bakumatsu story. It opens with Manji in the Wild West, then goes back to Japan where he meets Sakamoto Ryoma, and then he fights the Shinsengumi, etc. At that point I had pretty much lost all interest.

Ultimately, Rin is very aware that killing merely perpetuates the cycle of revenge that started her quest in the first place. Killing is something that she believes is wrong, and yet over the course of the series she accepts the part of herself that wants to kill Anotsu, but her quest has left countless dead bodies behind. Even though she gets arguably friendly with Anotsu at times throughout, she still wants to kill Anotsu, she is biding her time, always, patience is a virtue and she realizes this. She is limited in her capability to kill Anotsu as Rin is merely a mediocre swordsman while Anotsu is one of the two best swordsmen in the series. So she follows him around waiting for the time of his death, when that times come she will be there for her revenge, Rin wants certainty. This cycle of revenge theme is also one of the core aspects that affects Manji, as in the beginning of the series we're led to believe that killing 1000 evil men will be what gives him freedom and redemption, but the series quickly lets us know that nothing is this simple. Very very few people are truly wholly good or wholly evil.
Over the course of the story Rin as well realizes that Anotsu is not wholly evil.
For Rin, in the end she believes the cycle of revenge can be stopped if she kills Anotsu due do the circumstances of the story.

Another good series of the endless list of series that are ignored by the terrible taste of Yas Forums.

Yes it is quite good. Especially the end.

Everyone is saying how good the ending is so I’m worried I’ll set my expectations too high. I guess this is one of the few mangas where the mangaka does not shit on the ending

I wish the current anime adaption was better and brought more spotlight to it, at least there's been a couple of threads about it which seems inspired by the new adaption, but BotI is definitely overlooked on Yas Forums. In the pantheon of series like Vagabond and Berserk and other grand seinen series you'd think that Yas Forums would put Blade of the Immortal up there as well, but it seems a lot more niche.
I think part of it might have to do with Blade of the Immortal actually being complete and finished with a definitive ending to the story that Samura wanted to tell, which means there's just not as much ground for threads as there is on Vagabond or Berserk or Kingdom for that matter.

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Keep your expectations as you normally would, don't hype yourself up too much, but that's not to say it's anywhere near bad.
I recently collected and read all Omnibus volumes of Blade of the Immortal and it's most definitely not rushed, even if you won't like the ending based on what happens, it's well within the themes of the story as presented throughout the series from early on and the quality doesn't go down in the writing department, for me at least, extremely satisfying finale and what pushed the series up to one of my favorites.
Many people consider the final arc to be one of the best after all.

You can find the whole thing on Nyaa

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>always talks about how she wants to kill a guy
>ends up following said guy around while he basically protects her
Wow great revenge story. I can really see her resolve through her actions

You know being a seinen doesn't inherently make a series superior?

it's funny, in almost every other BotI thread I've seen everyone has generally shat on the ending. i personally love it, the last chapter especially has a gutpunch despite being anti-climatic. I think what makes it 'stand out' from other endings is that the author actually follows through with the core themes of the story

>t. Speedreading brainlet who didn't even finish the series

The anime is definitely what put the manga in my radar. I don’t know when (or if) I would’ve read the manga without it desu but I’m thankful. I don’t think the anime is too half bad so it’s a shame many people haven’t been piqued to check out the manga because the anime didn’t live up to modern anime fans expectations. I do think the anime pales in comparison to the manga but as a stand alone, not as awful as some make it sound.

I didn't speedread. I also didn't finish the series though because I started losing interest. Wasn't going to finish something that I was no longer enjoying

Why did Samura draw an old bastard harassing Makie? What did he mean by this?

Art is one the best around the story and the characters are complete shit especially the fmc, what a hypocritical degenerate cunt. There's only few decent characters other than that everyone is complete shit.

>ESL faggot who lacks basic reading comprehension

>fmc
Female main character?

Say what you want but I'd take a good shounen like HxH over a shit seinen like Gantz any day

You forget she carried out her revenge while telling others its not worth it. She's a cunt and hypocrite she should have died.

Um yeah, what do think I'm talking about?

I was just clarifying. Never seen that term before