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Samurai Deeper Kyo (manga)

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[ serialized in [Weekly Shonen Magazine] ]

Related anime:
    Samurai Deeper Kyo (TV) (adaptation)

Alternative title:
Samouraï Deeper Kyo (French)
鬼眼狂刀KYO (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: historical, samurai
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary:
Kyoshiro Mibu is a traveling medicine man. Even though he isnt all that great at it. Along the way he runs into a bounty hunter named Yuya Shina. She claims he is Demon Eyes Kyo and tries to take him in to get his bounty. For Kyo is the slayer of a thousand men and his head fetches quite the price. Soon when they are in a dangerous situation Demon Eyes appears. Yuya is given a choice follow through with her goals or be killed by this man. Soon enough madness and many battles follow them.
Mibu Kyoshiro is a wandering apocothery who is inhabited by Demon Eyes Kyo. When Kyoshiro fights, Demon Eyes Kyo comes out and kills as much as he can. Meanwhile, Shinna Yuya follows Kyoshiro/Kyo around for the bounty. Over fights, Red Tiger, or Benitora, joins up with them as well. Demon Eyes Kyo is trying to get his own body instead of sharing one and he seems to be at everyone's attention for demons keep coming to him either to fight or to ally. (The plot is still going...)
User Ratings: 240 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 25 votes (English:10, sub:9, dub:4, ?:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Excellent: 70 votes (sub:25, English:22, dub:14, ?:3, raw:1, Kor.sub:1, Ger.dub:1, Danish:1, edit.dub:1, German:1)
 Very good: 54 votes (English:26, dub:14, sub:12, ?:2)
 Good: 36 votes (English:14, dub:9, sub:7, ?:4, Swedish:1, Danish:1)
 Decent: 19 votes (English:12, sub:3, dub:2, Swe.sub:1, French:1)
 So-so: 20 votes (English:10, dub:4, sub:4, French:1, Danish:1)
 Not really good: 6 votes (English:3, dub:2, sub:1)
 Weak: 5 votes (English:3, sub:1, dub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (English:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:1, English:1, French:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (English:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 629 users, rank: #82
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.592 (Very good-.40), std. dev.: 1.9257, rank: #1290
Weighted mean: 7.455 (Good+.45), rank: #1348 (seen all: 7.97 / seen some: 7.54 / won't finish: 5.60)
Bayesian estimate: 7.460 (Good+.46), rank: #952
Number of tankoubon: 38
Number of pages: 182
Vintage:
1999-10-15
2003-06-10 (North America)
Releases: We have 200
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 1
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    Samurai Deeper Kyo (GN 22) 2007-05-08 (from $5.90)
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Story & Art: Akimine Kamijyō

 (none)
Japanese companies 

Publisher: Kodansha

English staff 

Art director: Matthew Alford

Translation:
Alexander Smith (vol. 5-21)
Dan Danko (vol. 4)
Takako Maeda

Adaptation:
Dan Danko
Rich Amtower (vol. 19)

Additional Translation:
Dan Danko
Yukiko Nakamura

Associate Editor: Steve Grest

Copy Editor:
Alexis Kirsch (vol. 8)
Bryce Coleman (vol. 3)
Carol Fox (vol. 4, 5, 6)
Eric Althoff
Hope Donovan (vol. 17)
Jason Fogelson (vol. 3)
Peter Ahlstrom (vol. 10-12)
Suzanne Waldman (vol. 13, 14)

Cover Design:
Aaron Suhr
Louis Csontos (vol. 19-21)
Raymond Makowski (vol. 5-10)
Seth Cable (vol. 11-18)

Editing:
Aaron Suhr (vol. 11-18)
Carol Fox (vol. 19)
Jake Forbes
Katherine Schilling (vol. 20, 21)

Editorial Director: Jeremy Ross

Graphic Design:
James Dashiell (vol. 6)
James Lee (vol. 5)
John Lo (vol. 7)
Tomas Montalvo-Lagos (vol. 3)

Lettering:
Deron Bennett (vol. 4)
Eric Pineda (vol. 16)
Jason Milligan (vol. 16)
Jennifer Carbajal (vol. 17, 18)
Jose Macasocol (vol. 6)
Miyuki Ishihara
Patrick Tran (vol. 7, 8, 9, 10)

Managing Editor: Jill Freshney

President: John Parker

Production Artist:
Bowen Park (vol. 21)
Eric Pineda (vol. 10, 12)
James Dashiell (vol. 14)
James Lee (vol. 8)
Jason Milligan (vol. 13)
Jennifer Carbajal (vol. 17, 18)
Jose Macasocol (vol. 16)
Lucas Rivera

Production Coordination: Antonio DePietro

Production manager: Jennifer Miller

Retouching:
Deron Bennett (vol. 4)
Eric Pineda (vol. 16)
Jason Milligan (vol. 16)
Jennifer Carbajal (vol. 17, 18)
Jose Macasocol (vol. 6)
Miyuki Ishihara
Patrick Tran (vol. 8-15)

Script Editing: Rich Amtower

VP Of Manufaturing: Ron Klamert

VP Of Production: Ron Klamert

English cast 
(none)
English companies 

Licensed by:
Del Rey (vol. 35-38)
TOKYOPOP (vol. 1-34)

Retouch And Lettering:
Cybermedia (vol. 20)
Star Print Brokers (vol. 21)

French cast 
French staff 

Translation: Misato

Adaptation: Misato

(none)
French companies 

Publisher: Kana

Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Publisher: Glènat España

Spanish cast 
(none)

German cast 
German staff 

Translation: Christine Steinle

(none)
German companies 

Publisher: Heyne

Danish staff 
Danish cast 

Translation: Alex Joergensen

 (none)
Danish companies 

Publisher: Mangismo Danmark

Swedish staff 
Swedish cast 

Translation: Fredrik Strömberg

 (none)
Swedish companies 

Publisher: Mangismo Sverige

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Tong Li Publishing Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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