Tag: Hiroaki samura

New Blade of the Immortal Anime Unsheathes Six Cast Members

Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal manga ended back in 2012, so the new anime adaptation will be a full telling of the saga. The Liden Films production kicks off on Amazon Video this October, and ahead of that we have the reveal of six new cast …Read more »

Blade of the Immortal Anime Reveals Staff and Debut Promo

August 8, 2019

Joseph Luster

Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal manga is getting another go at an anime adaptation, and the official website came through with some fresh details. The series is being produced at LIDEN FILMS, with Hiroshi Hamasaki (Shigurui: Death Frenzy) directing and Makoto Fukami (Latest Berserk anime) overseeing scripts. Other …Read more »

Wave, Listen to Me! [Manga Review]

September 19, 2017

Amelia Cook

After a breakup, Minare Koda drowns her sorrows with a group of strangers. The next morning she remembers nothing, but in the middle of her shift as a waitress she hears her own voice coming through the radio, a drunken ramble recorded the night before. …Read more »

[Review] Blade of the Immortal Omnibus

February 4, 2017

Shaenon K. Garrity

In the Tokugawa period, sardonic swordsman Manji wanders the countryside getting into fights. Thanks to a run-in with the mythological 800-year-old nun Yaobikuni, Manji is infected with symbiotic “bloodworms” that repair every injury, rendering him immortal. As penance for all the deaths he caused in …Read more »

[Review] Die Wergelder

January 30, 2016

Shaenon K. Garrity

Hiroaki Samura has built his career on one seminal manga: the 30-volume samurai fantasy epic Blade of the Immortal , a cult hit in the US as well as in Japan. Launched in the early 90s, Blade ended just a few years ago, freeing Samura …Read more »