The Legend of Kamui: Volume Two
$71.27
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2025
Summary
More swords, more fighting, more deception… Shirato Sanpei’s epic feudal sword drama continues! In Shirato’s world, life is hard and every step forward is hard-won. But through that hardship comes strength.
The Legend of Kamui: Volume 2 features more action and more intrigue as minor characters step into the light of this sweeping seventeenth-century social tapestry. Deeply embroiled in the deceptive maneuverings of the upper class, the warrior Ikkaku begins to see the betrayal around…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467798 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770467793 |
| Author: | Shirato Sanpei, Richard Rubinger |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.17kg |
| Dimensions: | 45mm x 162mm x 223mm |
| Series: | The Legend of Kamui |
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Critics Review
“An adventure story with adult content and themes, [The Legend of Kamui] can be seen as the work that forced manga and anime to “grow up.“–Nichi Bei News
“Legend of Kamui follows the young boys of farmers and ninja, and describes structures of a hierarchical society and resistance to discrimination in detail.“–The Asahi Shimbun
Shirato Sanpei
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 would begin 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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