Yes, years ago and recently when some daily dumper at 4chan shared it I still remember the brothers that were homos

>>28442 Chanbara has to have the greatest rate of 'absolutely incredible' series vs the size of the genre within animanga. Shigurui might be my favorite, but that's because I'm a deranged post-modernist. I'll toss in Ichigeki for a 'new' chanbara series that surprised me with being fairly novel and being extremely good otherwise.

>>28442 Yeah. There was a dude who was posting the chapters of Shigurui back in 4chan awhile back. >Chanbara Is Angolmois considered a chanbara? Also I like Kubikiri Asa.

I started collecting the volumes but then stopped. I should resume it. The anime was absolutely incredible, in case you're interested the entire anime is up on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uznAyDP8BA&list=PLmWSpSS_VIZrjUS81GKRGPdqQL-pkt-hM It sucks they didn't complete the manga, the anime was outstanding.

>>28442 I wish the anime adapted the whole manga...

On chapter 17 right now, so far >seen male prostitutes get ass fucked >a dad trying to rape his daughter and wanted to watch a man inseminate her >woman’s nipple gets rippedobearff >said nipple gets eaten by a Gonzo >testacles are almost burned to death with the tong No wonder Miura said this was Berserk’s rival

>>40423 It's my personal favorite manga and one of the few tragedies in mango that really work IMO. Only weird part is the frog later but I heard that the author got too depressed over the story to continue after finishing the chapter Shigurui is supposed to flavorfully adapt. It takes a lot of care to really beat home how fucked up feudal society could be, and works very well to the end of wanting to dissuade something like it.

>>28442 I'm currently reading it, I'm in the last two volumes. >>29711 >I still remember the brothers that were homos Do you mean the ones Fujiki and Irako killed? Nothing homo about fucking some twinks, they just didn't want to waste good pussy.

>>40798 >Only weird part is the frog later What was even the conclusion of that arc? The toad was obsessed with the hermaphrodite tomboy, but then he just accepted being the rape toad of some lord who fucks his waifu? Maybe I just haven't reached the conclusion of the arc yet, but that was weird.

>>29711 That panel of the bumming brothers buggering the two male prositutes was a meme in Japan for a while

>>28442 It was one of the few manga that really unsettled me, along with Lichi Hikari Club and Elfen Lied.

Update, I’m on chapter 44 here. The battle between Seigen and Fujiki is really tense. Best samurai battle I’ve read out of any manga so far. Favorite moment in the series has to be the seashell scene. I don’t know if they would’ve been able to truly bond given their backgrounds but they did both start as low class peasants. The misunderstanding of what Fubuki said reminded me of Guts leaving the Band of Hawk after what Griffith said

>>61522 Its a great example of how just knowing the outcome ahead of time does nothing to effect how tense or powerful a conflict can be when you read it.

>>61522 *fujiki Not fubuki

Finished the series, I think I might have liked it more than Vagabond because it shows how fucked the practices of feudal Japan were. Everyone prostrating without a hint of self respect and people killing one another over the smallest things. With how dark it was, I didn’t expect Gennosuke to win. Ultimately felt bad for Seigen since he knew that being a samurai only to be a puppet of the shogun isn’t anything special, saw how fucked everything was

>>47777 Just finished the series and the whole toad guy arc was really weird as a story. It seemed to just end, no real conclusion to it. The toad guy seemed to just forget about the tomboy for which he killed others to get, yet once he got pussy from the lord, he just stopped caring? Or was this a >Everyone prostrating without a hint of self respect moment, as >>66509 put it? Or was it just left "open-ended"?

>>66633 Apparently, his fight is recorded in the novel Shigurui is based on. Toad’s fight happens after Irako and Gennosuke so I can see why Yamaguchi cut it out. The manga couldn’t end with the toad fighting

>>66670 Asking as someone who didn't read the novel, were there plot points in Toad's fight that would have seemed strange if the Mangaka simply placed it prior to Seigen and Gennosuke's fight? I reread Shigurui after finding this thread, and it seems to me like the story has problems with introducing plot points just to have them go nowhere. The mangaka could have easily have left out the bits with the Toad AND the hermaphrodite sister of the sword twins out from his adaptation, and it wouldn't have affected the ending of the manga. Another example is the giant monk being intoduced towards the end, showing us irrelevant stuff about Seigen's background, like how he was trained in acupuncture and did nothing with his knowledge other than break Geno's fingers 60 chapters earlier. Plus, because we as readers weren't already convinced of Gennosuke's committment to his goal, giant monk gets to job to Geno, for us to then see Geno to fall apart like a little bitch in his next fight because he was ordered to do something no less brutal than the time he collected some faces. Mie's motivations because her actions and behaviors in the story from the moment Seigen was ambushed to the final chapter make no sense to me, but I chalk that up to my inability to think like a woman. If Miura called this the rival to Berserk he must have meant the art quality because story-wise it's all over the place.

>>67716 >hermaphrodite sister I think she just has a really big clit. She should've fucked the brave sparring partner's ass from with it instead of ripping his face off of his head.

>>67716 Admittedly one issue with the manga is definitely how it introduces things like characters from the novels, and their plot points, only to leave them. I've heard it's cause Yamaguchi became incredibly depressed with Seigen and Fujiki's story and ended it with them, now he mostly makes upbeat manga ever since. Mie was Kogan's daughter, but Kogan was a slave to the feudal society. He'd have her raped to make kids in a heartbeat. She didn't like that, so her comittment to Seigen is pretty much born out of Seigen's initial defial of the Feudal system. He rose really high basically with just tricks & merit, and maybe she thought he was her ticket out of things. It's a sad ending because even if Seigen won, he'd probably be forced to decapitate Fujiki anyway. In the manga, this fits the anti-feudal theme to a T, but the novel is a bit more... Generic? I've heard that she loved Seigen in that one. I think the manga's take is superior. The ending with Fujiki puking isn't so much him being disgusted by cutting off the head. Fujiki is cowering before the lord, as much a slave as he was before he began seeking revenge of Seigen. I can't recall the entire sequence of events but if I recall, the manga pitches them both as more understanding of each other thanks to the roles they've taken post-revenge match. In essence, Seigen sought himself status and became just another Tadanaga goon, while Fujiki became someone pursuing justice in whatever avenue he could, and he wanted to make Mie happy most of all, like Seigen after his expulsion almost. That's why he pukes, he'd gone a long way from just heeding his master's beck and call, but at the end of the day he couldn't disobey Tadanaga. The decap is more of a symbolic tarnishing of all that Fujiki built himself up to. Mie kills herself for this reason, having no way out of this hell. Refer to pic related. All in all, I could definitely see why a few authors like Togashi and Miura held/hold it in high regards despite its faults, Togashi seemingly taking inspiration from it for his Chrollo fight but also possibly for the Chimera Ant arc. It hits reslly hard when it needs to and the manga is seemingly always serious which many works can't claim to be, even if it becomes almost comedic at times precisely due to that.