The Legend of Kamui: Volume Four
$71.78
- Paperback
660 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2026
Summary
The plot thickens in Shirato Sanpei’s sweeping masterpiece!
Long considered the greatest epic series in Japanese comics, The Legend of Kamui delicately balances the largest cast ever in manga while managing to make every character distinct.
In this fourth installment of the groundbreaking saga, the outcast Kamui finally enters the order of the ninja. But soon, he is tasked with assassinating his teacher Akame who has joined forces with a high-powered merchant. Elsewhere, Shosu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770468566 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770468560 |
| Author: | Sanpei Shirato |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 660 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.20kg |
| Dimensions: | 45mm x 160mm x 268mm |
| Series: | The Legend of Kamui |
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Critics Review
Part adventure epic, part historical fiction, part political call to arms, this manga defies easy categorization…Readers will want to dive in. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. Kamui opens on a confident, popular artist in full control of his work. [Shirato Sanpei] positions very primal, nearly mythic vignettes amidst a panoramic view of feudal society in 17th-century Japan. Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal.
Sanpei Shirato
Shirato Sanpei was born in Tokyo in 1932. His father, Okamoto Toki, was an oil painter whose artistic endeavors exposed the young Shirato to a variety of perspectives. Okamoto notably instructed Kurosawa Akira in painting and design before the latter became a filmmaker.
After a seven-year stint as a kamishibai artist, Shirato began working in the kashihon manga market in 1957. Kaze no Fujimaru, an animated series based on an original story by Shirato, began to be broadcast in 1964. This was the first animation for which the young Miyazaki Hayao was in charge of original drawings.
The Legend of Kamui debuted that same year in the pages of Garo—a manga periodical founded by Shirato—and now best known as a launching pad for other revered manga talents like Mizuki Shigeru and Tsuge Yoshiharu.
Shirato died in 2021.
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