>>284926973
What did we learn, anon?

>>284927039
Irako Seigen was born bitchmade.

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>>284926973
Why is this page so funny?

thanks OP happy new year and time to sticky post in radio party

>>284927039
Don't get involved with Kogan-ryuu
Don't talk about Kogan-ryuu
In fact don't even think about Kogan-ryuu

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>>284927039
Fujiki is good at teaching.

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>>284927180
>he won
I'm going to Tokyo to learn Kogan-ryuu! Wish me luck!

>>284927106
it encapsulated how retarded this duel was

>>284927039
Never EVER allow cripples to participate in big events

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I think Irakofags and Fujikifags should end this discussion with a blood feud. Just a person to represent each side

This ending could've been prevented if Irako vs Fujiki wasn't the first round of the tournament. Had there been plenty of bloodshed beforehand, Tadanaga wouldn't be seething só hard

>>284927315
Besides this guy, who else had a happy ending?

>>284927378
Okay, I'll take the Irako team.
I will annihilate anyone that besmirches him.

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>>284926973
>If in one’s heart he follows the path of sincerity, though he does not pray, will not the gods protect him
>As everything in this world is but a sham, death is the only sincerity

This was the second time reading through this, initially picked it up out of interest generated from Togashi's comments in Vol. 34, as well as the iconic image of Tiger!Kogan descending the stairs to Irako, blade in mouth.
All I can say is it's peak. Happy New Year

>>284927378
>Just a person to represent each side
As well as 50 backup anons on each side to jump the opponent should their fighter lose.
Such are the rules of a blood feud after all.

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A masterpiece like usual.
There's something about Shigurui that always sticks in my mind. The utterly bizarre juxtaposition of the disgusting and beautiful with neither overwhelming the other, the crushing, oppressive absurdity of the setting, the ultrasexual imagery that somehow doesn't feel sexual at all.
A lot of works have plenty of worse stuff happening in them but Shigurui actually feels downright demonic at times. I really mean that, by the way. The imagery plays a lot into it (especially during some fights where the scenery is warped, very obvious during Seigen's vendetta against his dojo), but even how the various egos try to ride and fail against that complete insanity make it extremely repulsive.
Hopefully I don't sound too much like a schizo here, but this is probably one of my favorite pieces of art on a purely aesthetic basis alone. I'm not surprised in a sense the author didn't bother with the rest because drawing this would take a toll on anyone's mental health.

Thanks a lot for the ride and happy new year to everyone.

>>284927315
>new season of rurouni kenshin
>the rival of the arc busts out nagare-boshi

In the first duel, Fujiki Gennosuke defeated the demonic mumyo
sakanagare of Irako Seigen and diagonally cut off his torso. At the same
time, the two women Iku and Mie, who were behind the curtains, each
stabbed themselves in the chest and both died.
In the second duel, Isoda Kinu's naginata delivered a kabuto-wari
("helmet-breaking") blow to Zanami Kanzaemon's forehead against all
odds.
In the third duel, Kurokawa was unable to exact his revenge as he was
struck down by ukifune, the best technique of Tsukioka Yukinosuke of the
Toda School.
In the fourth duel, despite suffering a cut to his left knee, Sasahara
Shuzaburo speared Kutsuki Gannosuke from his right shoulder to his
spine, but even so, the dying Gannosuke threw a knife into Chika's chest,
the object of his forbidden love.
Before the official start of the fifth duel, the opponents Tsuruoka
Junnosuke and Fukada Gonoshin had already drawn their katana and
begun to fight, but in the end both unwittingly adopted the same stance,
shishi hanteki ("the lion's counter"), collided with each other, thrust their
short sword into each other's side and died simultaneously.
In the sixth duel, Kojima Sozo was wounded by the shuriken from "the
crosscutting windmill" attack, but he took advantage of an oversight by
Tsugami Kuninosuke to run his blade through. However, he died
immediately afterwards from the shot fired by the chief of the riflemen,
Kenmochi Jisuke.
To be killed was the fate that naturally befitted Tsugami, for he was a spy.

During the seventh duel, Kataoka Kyonosuke deliberately allowed his
opponent to destroy his specialty, the "hanging thread" stance, and despite
Kuroe Gotaro's "flying dragon sword" that Kataoka felt on his left
shoulder, he killed his opponent.
In the eighth duel Shindo pierced with the tip of his spear, but Komura
skillfully dodged it, cut the ropes that held the curtains and, grabbing one
end of the cloth, began to spin around Shindo until he rolled him into the
curtain. Finally he slit Shindo's throat.
In the ninth duel, Kurita Hikotaro cut through the groin of his opponent,
the brave warrior Shibayama Hanbee, with a long military record behind
him, and after knocking him off his horse he punctured his throat.
The reality, however, is that instead of Hikotaro his father Jirodayu fought,
and instead of Hanbee his son Shinzo fought. Both hid their faces with
their helmets and face shields and faced one another without either
knowing the other was a substitute.

>>284927462
kek

What do you plan to do you next, Gawain?

>>284927378
There are no Fujikifags, only Irako's.

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>>284927950
nothing, only dailies for half year, maybe i dump around july full volume but dont trust my words; After full metal panic i'll be back to Edo and dump Doctor Jin and thats my plan

>>284928127
And... the car?

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>>284928160
please i dont want to think about my car right now

>>284927950
As a fellow tool I shall face against all Irakofags as a representative of Fujiki faction

>>284927950
Vengeance for the car thief

>>284928199
Learn the lesson; don't have a nice car. This is why I have an old 08 honest Corsa and scratched its paint myself

>>284926973
let's recap what happened between fujiki and irako
>irako and fujiki meet, fujuki admires irako's luscious lips, irako then proceeds to finger him
>the crippling ritual on that mountain - fujiki mounts irako then proceeds to pound him
>the revenge duel - fujiki jumps on it, then mounts irako and sniffs his foot, irako then mounts fujiki, suddenly irako is arms deep into fujiki
> irako fists gonzaemon with his foot
> leading up to the tournament, fujiki can't stop thinking about irako's man boobs
> tournament duel - fujiki steals irako's heart :)

>>284927039
my boy gennosuke got the dub
fuck the haters

I would have nodiffed everyone in the story desu

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>>284928160

>>284928933
Kino.

>>284928933
OH NONONNONO

>>284928933
>the car... the car never loved OP

>>284928933
Honda Civic-sama...

>>284928933
>Petals in the background
Poor anon...

>>284926973
Happy new year to you too!

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>>284926973
I’ll miss you all
Impudent wretches

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kinu kino

>>284928199
I'm sorry OP

I can't believe I trusted the memes that we'll see other fights in the tournament

>>284928933
>TL Note: falling petals signify a delusion

>>284930315
Just wait for Volume 16 to be dumped tomorrow

>>284927718
It really does feel otherworldly. For however long it takes a reader to start abd finish it, they’re completely immersed in 16th century Japanese culture; you pick up customs, come to understand why its people think and speak thenway they do, learn to navigate the extremely obtuse, simultaneously rigid and fluid social norms. And then its over and you feel like a time traveler, your own time suddenly alien to you

>>284928933
Will OP escape avidya?

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Remember

>>284927718
Id unironically call Shigurui perfect if only you excised the Toadman appearances with all the vulgar shitting. Shigurui is disgusting and repulsive in a very tasteful way, the Toadman was the only time it feels like the author is slipping into the kind of vulgar disgust reserved for a tactical fiend in Kakugo. Seriously, the shitting was NOT necessary.

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reminder, yagyu won

>>284927378
Brother disciples, let us develop a new technique to defeat the Irakofags' representative.

>>284930192
Can someone edit this so all he’s saying is “impudent wretch”?

>>284926973
At the end of the day, we can all agree that Kogan did nothing wrong.

>>284930773
he fell flat on his back, in a sparring match thats usually a loss and Yagyu was about to admit defeat before Kogan stopped him to try make him indebted.

>>284930918
nigga just open it in ms paint

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>>284930918
9000 hours in Paint

>>284931090
Thanks anon

>>284931047
Oh yeah

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>>284926973
This was my third time reading it what a ride. What else are you storytiming, OP? I still think that there are too many storytimes on /a/, though.

>>284930958
Yes, he did. He gave mercy and didn't kill Irako

>>284931357
Keeek

It was an extremely aesthetically pleasing manga. I don't think I would've enjoyed the story half as much with lesser art
Happy New Year. A toast to OP and all who followed

>>284927821
>In the ninth duel, Kurita Hikotaro cut through the groin of his opponent, the brave warrior Shibayama Hanbee, with a long military record behind him, and after knocking him off his horse he punctured his throat.
>The reality, however, is that instead of Hikotaro his father Jirodayu fought, and instead of Hanbee his son Shinzo fought. Both hid their faces with their helmets and face shields and faced one another without either knowing the other was a substitute.
can someone who read the novel explain to me the significance of this

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Its so weird to have made such fond memories over such an unspeakably vile and wretched manga.
But here I am nontheless.

>>284927039
Crazy people and old people should be forced to retire instead of remaining in positions of power.

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>>284927039
>These Japanese are crazy!

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Arigato, OP
Arigato, vile wretches
Happy New Year!

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Thank you for the dump OP, hope everything works out with your car.
Happy new year.

>>284931675
I think that Kurita's father kills the other guy and then kills himself, because the deception could not last

>>284921459
The sword changed, there a guard, the sheath is different, the hold is different

>>284931529
Krogan never had political acumen. If the man who had tricked him to become the shogun's trainer had been in the same situation he would have recognized how dangerous Irako was and killed him right then.

>>284924035
Divine sword unrivaled underneath the heavens btw. That guy fucking scammed Seigen.

>>284925066
>presented as arguable 2 of the most skilled swordsmen in japan
>this is what they will be remembered by

>>284925176
Seigen was just too dazzling and too strong to win... If not for his blindness he would've easily fucked up Fujiki btw.

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>>284932629
As other anons said in the previous thread, the "sword" is only the steel part, extending into the hilt.
The guard, hilt materials and sheath can all be removed and replaced.
You can see it when Ushi breaks his sword.

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Reminder to read Kakugo no Susume.

>>284928933
Ganbare OP!

TRANSLATE MORE EFU NO SHICHININ

So Fujiki can:
a) Stick with Tadanaga and get killed for some bullshit
b) Stick with Tadanaga and be forced to commit seppuku in the wake of his actions
c) Stick with Tadanaga and be let off and have to figure out life as a true ronin
d) Flee Tadanaga and live as a fugitive (at least until the execution(
e) Kill himself immediately
Boy oh boy what a reward

>>284933659
High school samurai?

>>284934237
...In a way.

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this was cheating

>>284935175
it was an accident ok?

>>284935175
Show me the fucking rulebook.

>>284935175
Didn't you read? A one armed swordsman can not wield a katana properly, so he obviously lost control of the blade when he swung it. As it is written in the records for this circus act of a duel.

How would Fujiki have reacted if Tadanaga had demanded Mie?
Imagine

>>284935909
he is a fucking robot

>>284935175
He cane to kill a blind cripple.
Not to compete.
This entire affair isn’t even a tournament, its a series of death battles for the entertainment of a sadistic princeling. The idea of fair play is ludicrous.

>>284935909
>>284936119
That's exactly what happened to Kinu, and it was Fujiki's idea to run away.

>>284935909
Book Fujiki will try to escape with Mie in the night.
Manga Fujiki: I'll escort her to your court ladies myself (sudden stroke level nosebleed).

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>>284926973
>cartoon image
>in the OP
Kill yourself.

>>284936401
>kill yourself
If you want me dead you’re going to have to do it yourself, lazy fuck
Issue a request for a duel.

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What was your favorite martial feat of the storytime?

>>284936676
THE BLADE HAD NOT ABANDONED FUJIKI GENNOSUKE.

>>284936401
simpsons is 4chan culture

>>284936401
Mie. Get me the bazooka.

>>284936676
Seigen slicing a grain of rice on Iku’s nipple without cutting her
And then somehow slicing a massive statue apart with a katana

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>>284936676
The one you posted but this one is also fun

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>>284936676
Gennosuke winning a duel against a skilled swordsman with only his fists.
Kogan ryuu had a good thing going.
Too bad they threw it all away being petty, vindictive motherfuckers.

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>>284936832
that shit was so cash

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I think someone recommended The World is Mine in one of the previous threads and I'm about 10 volumes in. At first it just felt like mindless nihilism and I almost dropped it but once Mon-chan meets the giant bear monster it gets really interesting. I can see how this inspired Fire Punch.
>>284933900
I'm afraid to start it in case the team doesn't come back to it, but at least we're finally getting the rest of Exoskull Zero. It's interesting how after he finished Shigurui his revisit of Kakugo no Susume inherited a lot of that Shigurui imagery. In a way Kakugo's journey here feels like the author trying to find meaning in the despair Shigurui brought on him. In Kakugo no Susume there's still a humanity to fight for, but in Exoskull continuity everything is utterly fucked but Kakugo keeps on his path no matter what anyone else says.

>>284937251
I think it's my favorite moment in the manga period
A guy who's at his absolute nadir, the lowest (he thinks) he can go, saved by a pure coincidence

>>284937357
>The World is Mine
I've never managed to get past few chapters. I don't get what's supposed to be good about it.

>>284937357
>The World is Mine
what happened to toshi still makes my hair stand on end

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>>284936676

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>>284937604
Yeah the first few volumes are a hurdle and maybe even a waste of time on the author's part. There isn't even a tolerable character or the slightest bit of meaning until the hunter shows up. I can't say it's my favorite or that I even recommend it but I can't say it hasn't been interesting. If there's any point to it so far I think it's just trying to show every possible response and explanation to senseless death and evil. Even the self serving, suicidaly sympathetic, or just plain stupid ones. Also I think the author just enjoys drawing insane violence and disasters.
>>284937713
It better. I've been waiting for someone to get that piece of shit besides Mon-Chan for chapters and chapters. Mon-chan too frankly. I hope the ending is as horrific and explosive as possible after all this.

vol 15 thread

>>284916808
>>284916808
>>284916808
>>284916808

>almost 1000 replies

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>>284930773
Would Kogan be Buster, Arts or Quick

So why were the swordsmen at the blood feud able discern their high level techniques but not at the tournament? Were they both on a completely different level by then?

>>284937929
was that technique named?
it wasnt nagare nor nagare boshi

>>284936295
novel fujiki ≠ this fujiki.
this one is an autistic robot.
the novel one was a hot blooded human.

>>284938718
They're both fucking horrible, but seeing what happened to toshi was equally horrible. You could call it divine retribution. Also check out Kiichi! by the same author.

>>284925106
Minor counterpoint, Seigen wasn't the one who made the comparison, it was the higher-ups who did. Seigen was just answering their question.

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Manga Gennosuke is pretty turning into Shura after the ending right?

i missed shigurui threads? DDDDDD:

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>>284939799

>>284928933
Instead of chewing up a fish I'd love to see Kogan chewing up a spare tire.

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>>284939799
Not just Shigurui threads, CHRISTMAS Shigurui threads.

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>>284936881
/co/ culture isn't /a/ culture. Keep that shit on the back of the bus.

>>284940439
I lost my santa hat volume cover screenshot from last year and was upset I couldn't repost it

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Hey guys, I'd recommend Usagi Yojimbo if you want more samurai suffering kino

>>284940807
what's a good chapter to dump itt?

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w-would

>>284939117
Were there any notable swordsmen in the audience? It seems like it was daimyo and potential Tadanaga supporters who were nervous being there. The tournament isn't a public one, it's supposed to be sort of secret

>read the novel
>there really was a spy
that poor guy died for nothing...

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>>284940807
Surprisingly easy to convert the cast to Usagi style
Irako would definitely be a rabbit since he can jump high, has long hair, ladies' man
The rest mainly just generic cats

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>>284940807
>samurai suffering kino
For me, it's Ichigeki.
Slightly different time period but the lesson is the same, bushido culture had no place in peacetimes.

>>284941078
Usagi Yojimbo Issue 26 the duel

>>284939117
The revenge duel was a drawn out slug fest that displayed several secret techniques. Even a layman would know shit was crazy. Whereas the tournament was over after one swing, and nobody would know the context even if they were high level martial artists.
Also, I suspect the daimyo in the audience were likely not especially skilled with the sword.

>>284927039
If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushidō daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.

>>284927039
STR > dex

Here Mii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbb2pvfPZmY

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>>284941811
my only source of samurai media is from storytimes but ichigeki is definitely my favorite

>>284942459
>The Duel
proper Shigurui-lite tale to introduce your kids to pointless nip tragedy

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kek

>>284942649
Damn
Just like that

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owari

>>284943310
They’re literally me

>>284943387
Fuck…

>>284943387
owari da...

>>284943387
Moral of the story; know when to cash out…don’t let recency bias make a fool of you.

>>284940439
Kek

>>284931675
It's been long since I read it, but if I remember right it goes
>Jirodayu and Hanbee are rivals
>Hikotaro, Jirodayu's son, will duel Hanbee in the tourney
>Hikotaro is tied down and replaced by his father, who knows his son will lose
>Hanbee throws his backs, so his son Shinzo replaces him
>Shinzo dies. Hanbee kills Hikotaro in revenge
>Jirodayu calls for a duel with Hanbee, they kill each other

I wonder how much it would cost to get Yamaguchi to draw Fujiki splitting Tadanaga from neck to asshole when he demanded he behead Seigen, as a narrative recurrence of him potato sacking his childhood bully. He actually would get married to Mie in heaven after they were both shot in that world.

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>>284940807
>>284941811
Hirata Hiroshi's works also fit the Shigurui style very well.
They probably inspired Yamaguchi.

>>284941811
I liked Ichigeki but it felt like a pretty strained serialization

>>284926973
>>284927039
Seigen Numbah Won
Only rost to prot

>>284927039
The mouth is the source of disaster. That and psycho lords.

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>>284946560
Here, I'll post the rest to follow along.
Warning, contains pure zankoku jidaigeki insanity.

>>284943387
I forgot how good Usagi Yojimbo was. Gotta get back into it. Anyone know a good stopping point because I know Sakai is still putting out issues

I wonder if Mie killed herself because she loved Irako or because Fujiki took the knee and choosed to be a mere puppet for a cruel lord again, mesmerised by the samurai concept. Maybe it's a mix of both.

>>284948309
Jesus Christ we're off to a good start

>>284948388
For the manga the general consensus is the latter. Which is sad because killing Irako fucking broke Fujiki out of his autistic robot mode. I believe that once he did that last act of Samurai autism he was home free to being a real human being but his last act as a robot was also Mei's last straw

>>284948508
Jesus Christ
Hard to believe their descendants manufacture high end machinery now

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>>284936676
picrel

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>>284928933
This is a message to OP. Should you find whoever stole your ride, don't wait on the courts for retribution. Cut out their livers, and eat them in front of their weeping families.

>>284928933
o7

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A charming, provincial, tale all in all.

>>284948616
it's quite sad because if he refused he would had to die anyway, but mie would have killed herself with him, like iku. like this it's like their bond was broken. it is not shown but i suspect fujiki didnt lack regrets in his last moments, just like ushimata his thoughts were the ones of man, a simple man wishing for love, not of a samurai.

>>284943387
Cheers to you, UsagiAnon. I hadn't realized that Sakai-sensei was this good an artist. I'm still immature.

>>284940583
You're like the tourists who complain about anime images on "non-anime" boards.

>Irako is blinded by ambition
>Fujiki's hands are shackled by the feudal system
Shigurui is one of those rare manga I can re-read endlessly.

>>284949441
arigato dumpy sama

>>284948228
Stop when dark horse starts publishing

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>>284939319
I was expecting this to be more graphic, we only see the before and after, not the during. The ending was as explosive as I hoped though. Literally lmao. I guess that was the natural endpoint of a manga so heavily focused on bombings. I may read Kiichi at some point but that and a Shigurui reread back to back was exhausting. No more fatalistic manga for me for a while.

>his wife and kids died but it's ok since he retained his HONOR

>>284948388
It's a mix with the latter being the final straw. In Punished-Fujiki she saw a man reborn - and if he defeats Irako there's many birds with one stone:
1. She can finally put to rest the longing she had for Irako
2. And she has to put to rest the longing for Irako, because the jealousy of Iku and the downfall of her clan in his hands gnaw at her.
3. After Fujiki's victory she maybe able to start a new lifestyle that's completely different to the one that raised her
As soon as Fujiki kowtowed and began to behead Irako's corpse, her new hope was again dashed and she wanted out right there and then.

>>284927039
The mouth really is the source of all disaster,
That the scabbardless sword that Master Kogan wielded, that killed a monk earlier really does inflict the Doom status.
That monkey's head, a snake oil that supposedly a medicine only sought by the wealthy, which was offered as a gift to Gennosuke, by Fujiki in fact most likely, tastes like ass.

>>284950824
>dark horse starts publishing
Really? All my life only until just recently, like the last fifteen years Dark Horse had the best shit

>>284950825
>I may read Kiichi
The first Kiichi manga's second half is VERY pertinent right now

>>284948672
>>Poor unemployed family with multiple hungry children
>>Would rather starve then live on public funded charity
You know, my country's opposition party would love the samurai.

>>284951088
The worst part of al this is Fujiki was done after that. Dude finally broke his programing and was gritting his teeth just so they could have a future and in doing so he fucked everything up. It's just chefs kiss magnificent tragedy of the best kind

>>284951805
Agreed. It's a bizarre ride all the way to the end, but Yamaguchi curated it so well (the bloated Toad arc notwithstanding) that in the end you realise there's no other way for this tale to end.

>>284930711
Agreed, I think it was all an excuse to draw big clitty tomboy girl.

I believe Gennosuke reincarnated as Kakugo.

>>284951805
I am immediately reminded of Monster by Urasawa - the tag line for that series was "A Horrible Story"
Yeah Urasawa, your story was tragic, but it was a Saturday morning Disney cartoon compared to this.

>>284952177
>Urasawa
I used to RAVE about Urasawa but looking back at his work and having read just about everything translated, from Monster to Pluto I realized he's really good at setting up shit and getting to the last arc but goddamn his final acts are all, to a book, ass with Monster being the mostly an outlie thanks to Grimer and Luge just being the most based

>>284951478
Sorry I meant the last dark horse reboot, the ones with color and the new OC cousin

>>284952799
>the ones with color and the new OC cousin
I figured because Dark Horse both was really fucking good up until the latter 2010's (their manga side was hit or miss but got me into manga, they used to publish a LOT of the mature and obscure stuff but they had weird censorship and mirrored pages) and they've been publishing Usagi since the beginning. But yeah colored pages and Usagi's cousin sounds awful

>>284931476
Full metal panic

I don't understand why people look down on samurai for throwing their weapons when Musashi himself was skilled at throwing

>>284949007
Damn, didn’t think Hanbei talking some shit would cause this much asshurt

>>284949131
Jesus

>>284946560
Proud to be a Samurai is an excellent collection of short stories. I liked this and the Gun story the most. More mangaka should do that. Usually you only get a collection of their oneshots from before their first big series.

>>284954561
Throwing your sword in front of a collection of daimyo in what was meant to be an impressive and honorable duel, is basically career suicide, if not literally suicide.
Musashi fought illegal duels and used as many dirty tricks as it took to get victory in back country feuds. Not the same as tournament dueling.

>>284927039
Feudal Japan kinda sucked.

>>284953165
IDW got the license for a while and it never recovered, you can check in /co/ but you can read Usagi Yojimbo: Senso and consider that the ending

>>284955064
Feudal anywhere sucked. Every time the topic of pre-industrial utopia comes up in conversations I roll my eyes.
I work in an office, and I frequently consult for people who work in factories, distribution centres, delivery. They do not have it better off, period.

>>284948803
don't forget the eyeball(s)

When lady Kasuga appeared some anon mentioned something about a good josei manga related to her but didn't mention a title. What was this referring to? I got curious.

>>284956949
ooku

That traitor dude won so hard I'm beginning to think he did tamper with Seigen's sword as a way of "avenging" his master and managed to even cheat his karma itself.

>>284957215
I don't think he tampered with it, he just blew smoke up Seigen's ass over an otherwise normal long katana.

If Tadanaga wasn’t a crazy bastard and didn’t have a tournament with real blades how would the rivalry have continued?

>>284957268
fujiki would have mauled irako with a wooden sword

>>284957215
At that point Seigen could sense a defective sword immediately, it’s more likely the spearguy paid extra for a strong short sword for Fujiki

>>284957268
Gennosuke would probably have just performed a one-handed seppuku.

>>284948388
She never cared about Fujiki beyond being a tool for her vengeance, the only way for Fujiki to sway her would've been to chimp out against Tadanaga after defeating Irako and being asked to behead his corpse, so either committing seppuku or being killed by Tadanaga's men. For Fujiki that was a lost battle from the beginning.

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Did you know Yamaguchi had another feudal Japan manga before Shigurui or even Kakugo no Susume? It's just nonstop batshit nonsense and reinvents itself at least twice over the course of only nine chapters. There's a few early designs for later characters and the early tactical fiends too. It's amateur compared to his later work but it's interesting to see where he started.

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>>284957683
Oops forgot my picture. It's called Cyber Momotarou by the way.

>>284931625
Absolutely, I can't even bother with the novel because it won't measure up.
And honestly it's good that it only focused on Fujiki and Irako, it's a good self contained story and I consider nothing outside it canon.

>>284934151
f) kill Tadanaga himself
Won't be the first time he killed a tyrant/bully.

>>284927249
what is this from?

>>284957870
>Fujiki swinging Tadanaga around with one arm and smashing him against the dueling grounds
would have been kino

It's (almost) 4 am here. I'm having a terrible start to the new year; my dog just sprayed diarrhea on my bed while I was sleeping in it. I've gotten everything cleaned up, but I don't think I'll be getting back to sleep for tonight.
What are some good manga I can read to get my mind off of these events?

>>284948673
why did she immediately suck his dick?

>>284958343
Yeah, it's not a great start

>>284958303
Depending on what mood or length you want here's a few off the top of my head:
>Kakugo No Susume
Yamaguchi's other classic.
>The Pool
A short punchy 80s sci-fi action movie in manga form by the guy who did Ajin.
>Souboutei Must Be Destroyed
One of the best and most unique manga of the 2010s. It is many things but the title says it all.
>Melt Away Mizore-chan
Adorable story about a Yuki-Onna trying to experience summer
>Wakusei Closet
Every time the main character falls asleep she ends up on planet Lovecraft. The second half of the story is about her as an adult and that problem coming back.

>>284936676
does sucking your own dick count?

>>284943387
Fun fact : 90% of ronins quit before winning the one duel that'll set them for life.

>>284949379
>what an amazing man
wew

>>284936676
that fucking flip through the air while seated and bowed to cut a fool talking shit

>>284948943
This page made me mad.
In Shigurui the exagerated samurai autism comes off as tragic, but here it just makes everyone extra retarded.

>>284942978
somethign tells me that like walter white, he's not actually doing it for the family but just for his own ego

>>284959981
that's the samurai way

>>284958333
She serves her master well

>>284936676
Gennosuke grabbing his sword with his severed arm
It's probably the best sequence in the manga

>spearguy convinces fujiki and the girl to go into hiding until tadanaga is dealt with, which is in a month time at most. The end
There you go. Fixed the novel's ending

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A great storytime OP. It's only my second time reading Shigurui and thanks to the threads I picked up on a lof of details I missed the first time.

Anyway now I'm in the mood for more Samurai stories, so let's get some more recommendations going.
For me it's:

>Hyouge Mono
Obligatory mention, but there's always someone who hasn't read it.
>Kubikiri Asa
From the Lone Wolf and Cub duo, don't see it mentioned as often.
>Reiri
Relatively short and bittersweet. About a girl who becomes the bodydouble for Takeda Shingens grandson.

>>284930711
>anon was later found dead with his face and feet cut off

>>284960775
The novel's ending is the best ending. The tragedy that a sadist was allowed to play with people's lives for his own amusement with all of those lives were snuffed out to nothing is the point.

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>>284961255
>>Kubikiri Asa

>>284957215
Yeah that definitely happened.
The cover of the last volume should've been that guy, so important to the final outcome was his role.

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>>284927039

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What happened to the car thief?

>>284963263
He moved to Edo and opened a driving school.

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>>284961255
Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories is pretty interesting. Ishinomori's layouts are what got me into it but the stories don't pull their punches.

>>284963440
>Seigen as Asakura
>Mei and Iku as Kyon and Koizumi

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>>284936401
>>284936961

>>284931357
I wish there was a more general use version of this one, "unspeakably vile wretch" just sounds funny

>>284938775
Very impressive. I never thought Shigurui would ever make for threads that go significantly over bump limit.

>>284919728
>jaw hung slack
LIKE THE PEASANTS!

>vol. 15 thread 900 posts
>afterparty thread 270 posts
What killed the hype?

>>284967585
Letting two cripples fight for the first match of such a tournament. What was the Dainagon thinking? What's next, some kind of toad monster?

>>284959697
In Shiguri EVERYONE is afflicted with the Bushitism in this short it's two dudes while everyone around him is saying how goddamn retarded he's being

Imagine a Shigurui covering every duel that went on for 165 volumes

so maybe I'm crazy and haven't been paying attention and maybe it's the artstyle changing but later into the manga fujiki and irako's eyes got really big just like tadanaga's eyes in the beginning of the manga

>>284949007
After reading Shigurui I'm starting to get how those people reason, and I can confidently tell this Sagara dude picked the absolute worst possible strategy here: he's proving himself to be unfair and Hanbei to be right in his criticism.

>>284940807
Is Usagi Yojimbo considered a manga?

>>284949557
>it's quite sad because if he refused he would had to die anyway
Remember the page where they were amazed he was so healthy and were told being short of one arm cut his life short? The whole second act of Shigurui is a metaphor for the the last shred of sanity before death. Specially in the case of fujiki

>>284950327
>by the last match Irako's hands are shackled by ambition while Fujiki's are free from it (albeit a short time)

>>284970299
>by the last match Irako's hands are shackled by ambition while Fujiki's are free from it
They both had ambitions in life after the duel. Fujiki wasn't planning on going back to the shack to sleep celibate beside Mie after killing Irako.

>>284926973
this edit brings me joy, but i wish it had the quotes in the image itself

>>284970674
Ambition was only detrimental to Irako

>>284970299
Irako didn't have any shackles on when entering that match, other than standard feudal ones.
His issue was that he left Kogan-ryuu and the duel behind, while Fujiki lived and breathed revenge.
Seigen spent is last days caring for street kids, fantasizing about getting a high position in government, worrying about politics, and banging whores (before killing them because they were mean to a starving child). With a burst of sadistic pleasure at finally killing off Fujiki once and for all in the middle of it (after he previously put his life on the line defending him).
Fujiki spent his time obsessing over Seigen and lashing out at people in anger stemming from his obsession with Seigen. Before finally reaching an inner peace where he totally dedicated himself to killing Seigen at all costs, free from any trappings of honor or respectability.

>>284971054
Not true, ambition brought him incredible success. Irako's problem is he couldn't control his desire to have everything he wanted right then and there.

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>>284948228
Just head over to /co/ this march, there's an annual storytime there then.

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>>284959981
Such is life for those who follow bullshitto.

>>284971351
I love it it's unironically the
>While you were out partying I studied the blade
meme. It's both their biggest pronounced flaws rising to the top. Irako's habit of fucking around once he gets comfortable and Fujiki's robotic autism

>>284972408
Mie... easy on the seashells alright...

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>>284971528
>ambition brought him incredible success.
Through the wrong ways, hence his ambition was bad.

>>284971351
>Irako didn't have any shackles on when entering that match, other than standard feudal ones.
His ambition was the shackle, he never could let go that after his closure with Kogan ryu

>fantasizing about getting a high position in government
This is the biggest proof of being bound to ambition. This even led to being blind and conned

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>>284964927
Just for you, Anon. Happy New Year.

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happy new year, see you again in feudal japan all over again but now as medical drama with time traveling

>>284973109
Splendid, anon. I shall petition our lord to double the Janitors comission!

>>284969687
No, very much a Western comic but you could probably stretch the definition to say that UY is a manga if you place heavy emphasis on the idea that Sakai is a Japanese cartoonist who has a lot of Japanese themes in his work. I think this line of thinking is a bit too much to ask because Sakai spent most of his childhood in Hawaii, studied art in Hawaii, and worked in the comic industry as a letterer for Groo the Wanderer where much of his art style is influenced from. Also that UY is for Western audiences (doesn't even have a Japanese release or anything iirc despite having a niche fanbase there)

>>284927039
CURSE YOU FEUDAL JAPAAAANNN!!!

>>284973116
i started reading it in september but dropped it around the time he goes around helping people with smallpox. I'll give it another go with my fellow sibling students

>>284973109
kek

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>>284973109

I caught the beginning of this storytime and the end, totally forgot about it and missed like 90% of the chapters. Now I have something to look forward to, going through the archive for missed kino posts.

One of my favorite pieces of fiction and still a banger after 5 rereads. Honestly the test for getting sterilized or not should be a written analysis of Shigurui.

>>284973109
>janny's sizeable stiped of zero koku
audible kek

>>284975669
Yeah there's very little I can find fault in within this manga. Even Toad's story is good, the only issue is that it's pretty much left unresolved and you need the novel for the rest, basically reducing it to (good) filler.

So if Irako wanted to prove that a nobody could climb high, why not just point to the six-fingered peasant boy who reached a station arguably higher than Shogun?

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>>284973840
>Edo doctor helping people afflicted with pox
Sounds familiar

>>284927039
A puppet will always be a puppet

>>284976792
It takes place near the end of the Bakumatsu so it features a bunch of characters from the last arc.

>>284976723
Because for most of the story Irako wasn't trying to prove shit; he was an ambitious bastard rising as high as he can as quickly as he can. Late in the story he was beginning to self actualize and not be so selfish, and perhaps he would look to that six fingered guy as inspiration, but what he would have done with that mindset we will never know.

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>>284973109
>stipend of zero koku

>>284933659
Irako could have seduced the Penguin

I want fascistoid homo manga. Already read Golden Kamuy multiple times, and while I would call Kimetsu no Yaiba morally fashy, it's not homo enough. Guess I gotta do some digging.

>>284977898
>I would call Kimetsu no Yaiba morally fashy
Explain yourself I wanna laugh

>>284977984
Unquestioned rules determined by ancestry, overcoming struggles against onthologically evil enemies, absolute obedience of main protagonists to tradition or to inner calling (Inosuke). Kinda talking out of my ass, but that's the impression I got from the manga. An other example would be Metantei Conan which I would call deeply conservative instead of fascism-adjacent.

>>284977898
>>284978227
Yeah I kinda get it.
Have you read Innocent by the way? It might just scratch that itch.

>>284978522
>Innocent
Good idea! Read it back in the day before it was finished and before Rouge came out, should read the whole thing. Simply forgot about it for 11 years h-haha...

>>284936676
You've posted it