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* NonNaziSwastika: Manji has the swastika symbol on the back of his clothes as a reference to immortality. In fact, manji is the Japanese name for the swastika symbol. In the original version, it's drawn in the "Nazi direction", but in English translation was flipped to the "Buddhist direction". Every volume of the English version includes a NoteFromEd explaining the difference.
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* NonNaziSwastika: Manji has the swastika symbol on the back of his clothes as a reference to immortality. In fact, manji is the Japanese name for the swastika symbol. In the original version, it's It is drawn in the "Nazi "Buddhist direction", but in and it is one of the reasons why the English translation was flipped not flipped, but rearanged panel to the "Buddhist direction".panel. Every volume of the English version includes a NoteFromEd explaining the difference.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' originally ran from 1993-2012, published in Creator/{{Kodansha}}'s ''Monthly Afternoon'' {{seinen}} magazine. Kodansha partnered with Creator/DarkHorseComics for an English localization. Unusually for manga, rather than use either the then-common practice of flipping the pages left-to-right for the English release (which can cause text errors), or publish the English version in the Japanese right-to-left page order, Samura insisted the pages be printed left-to-right with the panels rearranged, [[DoingItForTheArt even partially redrawing many pages himself to facilitate this]]. From 2015 to 2020, Dark Horse reprinted ''Blade'' in ten three-book omnibus volumes.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' originally ran from 1993-2012, published in Creator/{{Kodansha}}'s ''Monthly Afternoon'' {{seinen}} magazine. Kodansha partnered with Creator/DarkHorseComics for an English localization. Unusually for manga, rather than use either the then-common practice of flipping the pages left-to-right for the English release (which can cause text errors), or publish the English version in the Japanese right-to-left page order, order (common practice nowadays), Samura insisted the pages be printed left-to-right with the panels rearranged, [[DoingItForTheArt even partially redrawing many pages himself to facilitate this]]. From 2015 to 2020, Dark Horse reprinted ''Blade'' in ten three-book omnibus volumes.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' (''無限の住人 Mugen no Junin'') is a {{Samurai}} {{seinen}} epic by Creator/HiroakiSamura, set in 18th-century Japan, which tells the story of a girl named Asano Rin, and her badass bodyguard [[MeaningfulName Manji]]. Manji is [[CursedWithAwesome immortal]] thanks to an infestation of ''kessen-chu'', sacred worms that pervade his system and knit together any injuries he sustains. He can die only by beheading or by coming into contact with a particularly rare poison. His goal in the series is to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever remove the curse of his immortality]], which will happen if he kills 1000 evil men in reparation for the 100 innocents he killed as an outlaw.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' (''無限の住人 Mugen no Junin'') is a {{Samurai}} {{seinen}} epic by Creator/HiroakiSamura, set in 18th-century Japan, which tells the story of a girl named Asano Rin, and her badass bodyguard [[MeaningfulName Manji]]. Manji is [[CursedWithAwesome immortal]] thanks to an infestation of ''kessen-chu'', sacred worms that pervade his system and knit together any injuries he sustains. He can die only by beheading or by coming into contact with a particularly rare poison. His goal in the series is to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever remove the curse of his immortality]], which will happen if he kills 1000 evil men in reparation for the 100 innocents he killed as an outlaw.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' originally ran from 1993-2012, published by Creator/Kodansha, which in Creator/{{Kodansha}}'s ''Monthly Afternoon'' {{seinen}} magazine. Kodansha partnered with Creator/DarkHorseComics for an English localization. Unusually for manga, rather than use either the then-common practice of flipping the pages left-to-right for the English release (which can cause text errors), or publish the English version in the Japanese right-to-left page order, Samura insisted the pages be printed left-to-right with the panels rearranged, [[DoingItForTheArt even partially redrawing many pages himself to facilitate this]]. From 2015 to 2020, Dark Horse reprinted ''Blade'' in ten three-book omnibus volumes.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' (''Mugen (''無限の住人 Mugen no Junin'') is a {{Samurai}} {{seinen}} epic by Creator/HiroakiSamura, set in 18th-century Japan, which tells the story of a girl named Asano Rin, and her badass bodyguard [[MeaningfulName Manji]]. Manji is [[CursedWithAwesome immortal]] thanks to an infestation of ''kessen-chu'', sacred worms that pervade his system and knit together any injuries he sustains. He can die only by beheading or by coming into contact with a particularly rare poison. His goal in the series is to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever remove the curse of his immortality]], which will happen if he kills 1000 evil men in reparation for the 100 innocents he killed as an outlaw.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' (''Mugen no Junin'') is set in 18th-century Japan and tells the story of a girl named Asano Rin, and her badass bodyguard [[MeaningfulName Manji]]. Manji is [[CursedWithAwesome immortal]] thanks to an infestation of ''kessen-chu'', sacred worms that pervade his system and knit together any injuries he sustains. He can die only by beheading or by coming into contact with a particularly rare poison. His goal in the series is to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever remove the curse of his immortality]], which will happen if he kills 1000 evil men in reparation for the 100 innocents he killed as an outlaw.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' (''Mugen no Junin'') is a {{Samurai}} epic by Creator/HiroakiSamura, set in 18th-century Japan and Japan, which tells the story of a girl named Asano Rin, and her badass bodyguard [[MeaningfulName Manji]]. Manji is [[CursedWithAwesome immortal]] thanks to an infestation of ''kessen-chu'', sacred worms that pervade his system and knit together any injuries he sustains. He can die only by beheading or by coming into contact with a particularly rare poison. His goal in the series is to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever remove the curse of his immortality]], which will happen if he kills 1000 evil men in reparation for the 100 innocents he killed as an outlaw.
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''Blade of the Immortal'' is a {{Samurai}} epic by Creator/HiroakiSamura that explores issues relating to death, immortality, revenge, forgiveness, and redemption.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: This trope is one of the reasons Shira is so unsettling.
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** The fiancée of an Itto-Ryu member dies after biting off the end of her tongue while being tortured for information. However, it's a bit unclear if this was suicide, or if she accidentally bit off information about her tongue.lover.
* TongueTrauma: Makie bites her tongue and [[spoiler:coughs up blood while fighting Giichi]] in order to lower his guard when they think her tuberculosis is acting up.
* TongueTrauma: Makie bites her tongue and [[spoiler:coughs up blood while fighting Giichi]] in order to lower his guard when they think her tuberculosis is acting up.
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** After losing to Anotsu for the first time, Rin threatens to kill herself by biting off her tongue if he tries to do anything indecent towards her.
** The fiancée of an Itto-Ryu member dies after biting off the end of her tongue while being tortured for information. However, it's a bit unclear if this was suicide, or if she accidentally bit off her tongue.
** After losing to Anotsu for the first time, Rin threatens to kill herself by biting off her tongue if he tries to do anything indecent towards her.
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* TooLongDidntDub: The English manga keeps certain things in Japanese, most commonly "kenshi" (swordsman) "toshu" (boss) and the titles of various officials and officers. There's a glossary in the back, and occasionally footnotes. The middle volumes, however (when Dana Lewis became sole translator) change "certain" to "a hell of a lot" including perfectly translatable words like "kachi" (soldier) "washi" (Japanese person) and even ''japanese pronunciations of English words'' like "kirishitan" (Christian) requiring frequent flips to the glossary, even when there was clearly room on the page for a footnote. The end volumes fortunately get a new translator who dials it back.
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* TooLongDidntDub: The English manga keeps certain things in Japanese, most commonly "kenshi" (swordsman) "toshu" (boss) and the titles of various officials and officers. There's a glossary in the back, and occasionally footnotes. The middle volumes, however (when Dana Lewis became sole translator) change "certain" to "a hell of a lot" including perfectly translatable words like "kachi" (soldier) "washi" (Japanese person) and even ''japanese ''Japanese pronunciations of English words'' like "kirishitan" (Christian) requiring frequent flips to the glossary, even when there was clearly room on the page for a footnote. The end volumes fortunately get a new translator who dials it back.
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* ShaggyDogStory: At Hyakurin's suggestion, Manji tries to steal a permit to be able to pass through the city borders and chase after Anotsu [[spoiler:and Rin]], who had left Edo. He tries to get it from a group of Itto-Ryu members, and gets chopped up pretty badly for his efforts, and even after that they failed to get the permit, because it's soaked with blood and therefore unusable. He is saved by Sori, who tells him that he has a bunch of permits that he can give to Manji, if he had just ''asked''. Manji is ''pissed''.
--> '''Manji:''' Wh... what a fucking waste!! That whole fucking bloodbath, for ''nothing''!!
--> '''Manji:''' Wh... what a fucking waste!! That whole fucking bloodbath, for ''nothing''!!
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** Shira tries to invoke one on Manji in chapter 169. [[spoiler:He has tied Rin to the underside of a dock in frigid water. When Manji tries to cut her loose, she sinks to the bottom of the lake and he find out too late that her feet are tied to a stone with knots too tight and complex to be undone with one arm (as Manji has lost one). Furthermore, Shira has confiscated all of Manji's weapons so that cutting Rin loose is not an option. And last but not least, the water is so cold that even Manji's immortal body can't stand up to it (cold, heat and drowning are explicitly stated to be things that immortality does ''squat'' against.\\
** Shira tries to invoke one on Manji in chapter 169. [[spoiler:He has tied Rin to the underside of a dock in frigid water. When Manji tries to cut her loose, she sinks to the bottom of the lake and he find out too late that her feet are tied to a stone with knots too tight and complex to be undone with one arm (as Manji has lost one). Furthermore, Shira has confiscated all of Manji's weapons so that cutting Rin loose is not an option. And last but not least, the water is so cold that even Manji's immortal body can't stand up to it (cold, heat and drowning are explicitly stated to be things that immortality does ''squat'' against.\\
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**SadisticChoice: Shira tries to invoke one on Manji in chapter 169. [[spoiler:He has tied Rin to the underside of a dock in frigid water. When Manji tries to cut her loose, she sinks to the bottom of the lake and he find out too late that her feet are tied to a stone with knots too tight and complex to be undone with one arm (as Manji has lost one). Furthermore, Shira has confiscated all of Manji's weapons so that cutting Rin loose is not an option. And last but not least, the water is so cold that even Manji's immortal body can't stand up to it (cold, heat and drowning are explicitly stated to be things that immortality does ''squat'' against.\\
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* CompleteMonster: Most of the characters are fairly nuanced, with both good and bad qualities, then you have Shira, who is probably the closest thing to pure evil that you can get.
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* Hammerspace: Manji seemingly carries a whole arsenal of bladed weapons inside his kimono and yet there is no evidence of them being present when not in use.
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** Eiku Shizuma initially seems like a subversion (wants to rule the world) but lets Manji defeat him when he realizes how bored he's getting.
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* WisdomFromTheGutter: One of the most profound observations on Manji's immortality actually comes from the small-time felon Dewanosuke, a petty thief and arsonist with the face of a thug and a street vocabulary, brought in to serve as a guinea pig in the immortality transferral experiments.
-->'''Dewanosuke:''' Boss, that carcass of yours is the real thing. But if they're talking about spreadin' it like measles, makin' a world where you don't need no doctor nor priest, well... that'd be one ''fucked-up'' world. A body what won't die's gotta be one hell of a burden, right? If a guy gets a body like that, maybe it's a ''message,'' see? Like, ''your'' sorry ass don't get to die 'cuz there's still shit you ''gotta do.''
* WisdomFromTheGutter: One of the most profound observations on Manji's immortality actually comes from the small-time felon Dewanosuke, a petty thief and arsonist with the face of a thug and a street vocabulary, brought in to serve as a guinea pig in the immortality transferral experiments.
-->'''Dewanosuke:''' Boss, that carcass of yours is the real thing. But if they're talking about spreadin' it like measles, makin' a world where you don't need no doctor nor priest, well... that'd be one ''fucked-up'' world. A body what won't die's gotta be one hell of a burden, right? If a guy gets a body like that, maybe it's a ''message,'' see? Like, ''your'' sorry ass don't get to die 'cuz there's still shit you ''gotta do.''
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* BadassAndChildDuo: At the end of the series Manji gets assigned to [[spoiler:bodyguard Rin's adorable granddaughter Fuyu]].
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* BookEnds: The series begins with Rin, on Yaobikuni's advice, finding Manji and convincing him to be her bodyguard. The final volume ends [[spoiler:about 90 years into the future, with Yaobikuni bringing Rin's granddaughter Fuyu to Manji for protection]].
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* BookEnds: The series begins with Rin, on Yaobikuni's advice, finding Manji and convincing him to be her bodyguard. The final volume ends [[spoiler:about 90 years into the future, with Yaobikuni bringing Rin's granddaughter great-great-granddaughter Fuyu to Manji for protection]].
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A sequel manga titled ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortalBakumatsuArc'' is currently being published. As it name implies, the series will take place during the turbulent Bakumatsu era during the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Samura is a collaborator, but it is written by Kenji Takigawa and illustrated by Ryu Suenobu.
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* AntiClimax: When the long-awaited final duel between [[spoiler:Manji and Anotsu]] finally happens, [[spoiler:Anotsu is [[DentedIron already so worn-down and injured from his just-finished epic duel with Habaki]] (and Manji is, of course, [[HealingFactor Manji]]) that it's not even a contest- while Anotsu is a far superior swordsman to Manji on a technical level, Manji just smacks him around with ease and hacks off his sword arm]]. Many consider this to be a PostClimaxConfrontation, with the real FinalBattle being [[spoiler: Anotsus vs. Kagimura.]]
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* AntiClimax: When the long-awaited final duel between [[spoiler:Manji and Anotsu]] finally happens, [[spoiler:Anotsu is [[DentedIron already so worn-down and injured from his just-finished epic duel with Habaki]] (and Manji is, of course, [[HealingFactor Manji]]) that it's not even a contest- while Anotsu is a far superior swordsman to Manji on a technical level, Manji just smacks him around with ease and hacks off his sword arm]]. Many consider this to be a PostClimaxConfrontation, with the real FinalBattle being [[spoiler: Anotsus vs. Kagimura.Kagimura, and even that was ended on ''another'' AntiClimax due to Manji interfering.]]
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* RealityEnsues: During the Prison Arc Burando begins experimenting with Manji's HealingFactor by transplanting his limbs to other patients. However, the constant transplants are very stressful to Dewanosuke and thus his HealingFactor is so weak he's killed just like a normal person.
** Furthermore, like any transplant or transfusion, blood type is extremely important. Burando got lucky with Dewanosuke and Manji have compatible blood types. When he tries to replicate the experiment on other inmates the body count starts piling up due to most recipients rejecting the transplants.
** Furthermore, like any transplant or transfusion, blood type is extremely important. Burando got lucky with Dewanosuke and Manji have compatible blood types. When he tries to replicate the experiment on other inmates the body count starts piling up due to most recipients rejecting the transplants.
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* PiggybackCute: Manji carries Rin this way twice.
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* PiggybackCute: Manji carries Rin this way twice.a few times.
