Blade of the Immortal - The Gathering (GN 8)

Release date: 2001-08-15
Suggested retail price: $15.95
Age rating: 17+

SKU: DH-11166
ISBN-10: 1569715467 1569715467
ISBN-13: 9781569715468 9781569715468

Description:
The immortal samurai,​ Manji,​ and his charge,​ Rin have lost their best chance to avenge the death of Rin's parents at the hands of Anotsu Kagehisa's renegade sword school,​ the deadly Itto-ryu.​

Manji and Rin's alliance with the mysterious Mugai-ryu assassins has failed,​ and now for Rin to pursue her parents' killer,​ she must pass through the Shogun's checkpoints that control the roads out of Edo,​ a task she must perform without Manji,​ who is one of the most wanted men in all Japan and she is sure to be detected.​

When Manji discovers Rin has gone,​ he faces the impossible choice of storming the checkpoint by force or leaving Rin to face Anotsu and his trained killers alone.​ And when Rin is falsely named as an accomplice in a savage murder,​ the stakes are raised ever higher as she faces even greater odds to fulfill her blood oath!

Collects issues #1-8 of The Gathering series.​

Story and art by Hiroaki Samura.​

(added on 2011-04-17, modified on 2011-04-17)

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