Synopsis: Manji is an amoral swordsman, who has been cursed with eternal life. Blade of the Immortal Anime Adds Six Sword Masters to Its Cast Blade of the Immortal Anime Slices Up Amazon Prime Video in October Blade of the Immortal Gets New "Complete" Anime Adaptation "The Inhabitant of Infinity") is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! He has had generations to mourn the loss of the only person he cared about and lament the code of honor he can no longer follow. Blade of the Immortal is a series that strives to encapsulate the time-period and struggle of the profession. He has grown tired of living with all the death he has created. He has grown tired of living with all the death he has created. It's an influential manga that spawned two anime adaptations and a live-action film. Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. Blade of the Immortal Omnibus Volume 1 contains the first 3 volumes of Blade of the Immortal by Dark Horse. Blade of the Immortal pulls it off quite well. Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal will keep you on edge! The series won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2000 for Best U.S. No critic worth their salt has ever paraded Blade of the Immortal on the quality of its writing, characterization, storytelling—none of it. “Blade of the Immortal” tells the story of Manji (Takuya Kimura), a samurai who is blessed/cursed with immortality. You see a maturation process happening but also spikes of disinterest in his own work. Blade of the Immortal. Blade of the Immortal is one of the most illustrious manga titles to date on the back of its artwork alone. It's an influential manga that spawned two anime adaptations and a live-action film. He was able to gut it out to a mostly satisfying conclusion but reading it as a whole provides a very uneven experience. Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人, Mugen no Jūnin) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Samura Hiroaki. This means you're spared from scenes that feel like slice of life environment building transitions. Intense and audacious, Blade takes period samurai action and deftly combines it with a modernist street idiom to create a style and mood like no other work of graphic fiction. It actually integrates the perspectives of minor characters as they are fighting for their sides as a narrative tool. It’s all on the art. Blade of the Immortal was Samura Hiroaki's first work and it really shows in artwork and especially his storytelling. Edition of Foreign Material. 3 years, 7 months ago Information. Manji is an immortal swordsman, who has been cursed with eternal life. Episode 1. He has no skills other than those of killing, thus he forms a plan to regain his mortality: he shall kill one hundred evil men for each good one he has killed. Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人, Mugen no Jūnin?, lit.