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Taeko Watanabe's Kaze Hikaru Shinsengumi Manga Enters Climax
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The November issue of Shogakukan's Flowers magazine revealed on Saturday that Taeko Watanabe's Kaze Hikaru manga is entering its climax in the magazine's next issue in October.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:
In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai warriors of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi - a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to the Shogunate system. In time, this group would eventually become one of the greatest (and most infamous) revolutionary movements in Japanese history... The Shinsen-gumi!Into this fierce milieu steps Kamiya Seizaburo, a young, would-be warrior who, though lacking in combat experience, possesses a fiery enthusiasm to both aid the Mibu Roshi in their mission and to avenge his wrongfully murdered family. One of the group's most gifted (and immature) swordsman, the legendary Okita Soji, agrees to take Seizaburo under his wing. But what no one suspects, least of all Soji, is that Seizaburo is actually a girl named Tominaga Sei in disguise! Will she be able to become a warrior and hide her true identity?
Watanabe launched the manga in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine in 1997, and then moved the manga to Flowers in 2002. Viz Media published the manga's 26th volume in English in August 2018, and will publish the 27th volume on Tuesday.
Source: Flowers November issue
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