The Legend of Kamui
$66.61
- Paperback
612 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2025
Summary
The iconic series that launched the alt-manga bible GARO becomes available in English for the very first time.
At long last, manga titan Shirato Sanpei’s groundbreaking epic makes its way into English. Celebrated as a watershed of both the Japanese counterculture and dramatic, longform storytelling in manga, The Legend of Kamui serves up clashing swords and class struggle to create a timeless political allegory set in feudal Japan. This ten-volume series is a must-have for fans of sam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467293 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770467297 |
| Author: | Shirato Sanpei |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 612 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.10kg |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 160mm x 224mm |
| 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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