In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called \"Itsukihime\" in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who acts as the shrine maiden\'s guardian despite being a stranger, encounters a mysterious demon who speaks of the far future in the forest where he went to defeat it. From Edo to the Heisei era, this huge Japanese fantasy series follows a demon man who travels through time while continuously questioning the meaning of wielding a sword.
Set in feudal Japan in between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, our hero Tokiyuki Hojo is a boy on the run that history all but forgot! When the Kamakura shogunate is overthrown by Takauji Ashikaga, Tokiyuki's family and standing are viciously taken away from him, and he must flee to the far reaches of the land to survive and seek out his revenge! (Source: MANGA Plus, edited)
Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan's Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 demons in exchange for complete domination of the country. When the baby boy is born, Daigo has him thrown into a river, expecting the boy to die. A kind sage, however, finds him and adopts him. The sage fits out his poor son with prosthetics. Time goes by and the baby grows into a boy who calls himself Hyakkimaru. Every time Hyakkimaru eliminates a demon, he retrieves one of his body parts. Hyakkimaru rescues a boy thief named Dororo from a band of men whom the young boy tried to rob. Together they travel the countryside in search of the demons who possess Hyakkimaru's parts. Throughout their travels, they face a host of monsters and ghosts. (Source: Vertical Inc.)
Sequel to . It is set in the Bakumatsu period in the 19th century, and follows the main character Manji, who starts the story in a life of seclusion in the Tosa domain, but heads to the capital for a certain reason. The story will have him confronting the strongest warriors of the time. (Source: ANN)
The spine-chilling influence of Japanese horror cinema has taken hold in Western audiences with hit films like The Ring that are based on Japanese films adapted from classic manga stories. And the master of horror manga is Umezu Kazuo-known as the \"Stephen King of Japan,\" with several of his stories being adapted to film-and Dark Horse Manga is proud to bring his Scary Book horror anthology to Western readers for the first time. This first volume, Reflections, presents two feature-length tales of terror. In \"Mirror,\" a narcissistic girl\'s reflection begins to take mean-spirited command of her life; and in \"Demon\'s Revenge,\" a sadistic samurai master bent on seeking retribution for his son\'s injuries finds the tables of vengeance turned against him.
Once upon a time, an abandoned kitten was on the brink of death. Thankfully, a vampire came up to him and offered him in own blood, thus Nyanpire was born! Follow his comical adventures with his wacky cast of friends such as a cat-samurai, or a fallen angel!
The strongest swordsman of the Warring States period, transferred to another world. At the end of the Warring States Period, Ginko, the greatest swordsman of the time, was always hungry for a fight to the death with someone stronger than herself. After cutting and cutting and cutting, she finally despairs that there is no one stronger than her in this world, and then she is transferred to another world! Before her eyes - a dragon!
