Blade of the Immortal

[Arios]

Blade of the Immortal

Originally Posted by Wiki

Blade of the Immortal follows the deeds of Manji, a skilled samurai who has a decisive advantage: no wound can kill him, except for a rare poison. In the past, his criminal actions led to the death of 100 other samurai (including his sister's husband). He becomes immortal at the hand of a 800-year-old nun named Yaobikuni, and is compelled by the death of his sister to accept the quest that will end his agelessness. He has vowed to make amends by killing 1000 evil men, and until he does Manji will be kept alive by kessen-chu ('sacred bloodworms'), remarkable creatures that allow him to survive nearly any injury and reattach severed limbs even after hours of separation. They work by sacrificing themselves to seal the wound - they're worms that were bred to be as close in their chemical and physical make-up to humans as you can get without being human. They cannot handle regrowth on a large scale, but, for example, can reattach a severed limb or seal a hole in the brain.

Manji crosses paths with a young girl named Asano Rin and promises to help her avenge her parents, who were killed by a cadre of master swordsmen led by Anotsu Kagehisa. Anotsu killed Rin's father and his entire dōjō, making them a family of outcasts. Anotsu's quest is to gather other outcasts and form an extremely powerful new dojo, the Ittō-ryū (a school teaching any technique that wins, no matter how exotic or underhanded), and has started taking over and destroying other dojos.

Cause Sammy still needs to read this at some point

[Sovereign]

I'm actually in the process of buying this manga, instead of just reading it online.

So far, I have volume 1.

[Arios]

I suspect all the links are dead by now.......


Well I guess if you're going to spend your money on actually buying a series, BotI is a good one to pick, I should imagine it would be the sort of series that would just be nice to have sitting on your shelf

[Tamashii]

Hm...I don't suppose the raws are in Chinese are they? Or am I remembering the wrong series?

[Arios]

I honestly don't know

I'm not sure why they would be though...

[Tamashii]

Oh, I used to think that it was a Chinese manhua, that's why. I'm looking for a Chinese manhua so I can study up on Chinese while enjoying it for the SATIIs. Do you know of any?

[Arios]

Morri would be the one to ask about Chinese manhua's I would think. I've probably read a few myself but I couldn't remember which ones they are