Samurai Executioner (GN 7 of 10)

Release date: 2005-12-14
Suggested retail price: $9.95
Age rating: 17+

SKU: DH-10280
ISBN-10: 1593072767 1593072767
ISBN-13: 9781593072766 9781593072766

Description:
As Samurai Executioner continues moving into its own world of crime and punishment, honor and bushido, we are beginning to learn more about the characters and situations involved in Edo-era justice. We're learning about Kubikiri Asa, the Shogun's decapitator, and his stoic life. This man's joyless existence is backed by stories of his past as a child, and how they reflect on his present life.

But we also learn more about the peace officers of the era. In particular, there's the character "Catcher Kasajiro," the charming young man who uses a hooked rope and chained cudgel with such great skill. With these two characters, one with the guilt of many generations, and one bearing the naivete of a young buck, comes an odd sort of tenderness to a world of pain and death.

Story by Kazuo Koike and Art by Goseki Kojima.

(added on 2005-05-30, modified on 2013-01-07)

• Reviewed by Carlo Santos (February 9, 2006)

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