Samurai Executioner Volume 10: A Couple Of Jitte TPB
Samurai Executioner Volume 5: Ten Fingers, One Life
Writers/Artists: KAZUO KOIKE and GOSEKI KOJIMA.
Striking similarities between Lone Wolf & Cub and Koike and Kojima’s sidebar storyline Samurai Executioner (known as Kubikiri Asa in Japan) are evident in the cool attitude, rebellious honor, and unflappable bushido of the lead characters of both series, but readers will delight in the whole new genre of Edo-era samurai spirit in Samurai Executioner. Wrapped tightly around a core of crime fiction, we enter a world of harsh, and violent crime, and the forces up against it. In this volume, after a few initial stories of criminals’ lives leading to execution, we meet two Edo-era police officers and explore their specialized methods of capturing crafty criminals. Then, in Koike’s signature fashion, the volume ends with a psycho killer and her grueling and violent end. It’s like a history lesson, art education, and pulp sensation, all wrapped up in one fantastic series. Never before published in America, Samurai Executioner was the companion to one of the most seminal works of manga, Lone Wolf & Cub! Dark Horse has sold over 800,000 copies of Lone Wolf & Cub since 2000!
Each volume comes shrink wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory. 304 Pages. ISBN 1593072112.
Striking similarities between Lone Wolf & Cub and Koike and Kojima’s sidebar storyline Samurai Executioner (known as Kubikiri Asa in Japan) are evident in the cool attitude, rebellious honor, and unflappable bushido of the lead characters of both series, but readers will delight in the whole new genre of Edo-era samurai spirit in Samurai Executioner. Wrapped tightly around a core of crime fiction, we enter a world of harsh, and violent crime, and the forces up against it. In this volume, after a few initial stories of criminals’ lives leading to execution, we meet two Edo-era police officers and explore their specialized methods of capturing crafty criminals. Then, in Koike’s signature fashion, the volume ends with a psycho killer and her grueling and violent end. It’s like a history lesson, art education, and pulp sensation, all wrapped up in one fantastic series. Never before published in America, Samurai Executioner was the companion to one of the most seminal works of manga, Lone Wolf & Cub! Dark Horse has sold over 800,000 copies of Lone Wolf & Cub since 2000!
Each volume comes shrink wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory. 304 Pages. ISBN 1593072112.
