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Shigurui

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological

The story begins in 1629 Shizuoka during Tokugawa Tadanaga's rule. The daimyo staged a tournament where the participants fought with real steel Japanese swords rather than bokken, against his vassals' strong objection. The story revolves around the first match between the one-armed swordsman Fujiki Gennosuke and the blind samurai Irako Seigen and deals with the circumstances that led the two to participate in Tokugawa's tournament.



Tags: Tragedy , Swordplay , Revenge , Samurai , Disability , Gore , Anti-Hero , Psychosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Class Struggle , Nudity , Philosophy , Historical , Seinen , Body Horror , Sadism , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Cultivation , Martial Arts , Torture , Suicide , Arranged Marriage , Achronological Order , Ero Guro , Love Triangle , Rural , Time Skip , Cannibalism , Oiran

Zatoichi

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

This one-shot is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro).

The Ballad of Zatoichi: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi." Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels, he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to stay and defend the town or to leave and be on his way.

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage: After he's ambushed in a small village terrorized by a gang of thieves, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. As fate would have it, his travels soon lead him to Okichi, a woman whom Zatoichi discovers is the sister of the young man whose life he stole. In anger, Okichi attacks the blind swordsman, but her conscience gets the better of her, and as she tends his wounds, the two fall in love.



Tags: Swordplay , Historical , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Anthology

Colored

Also known as Color of Rage.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship, one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping they find themselves on shore in Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isolated from the world. How will the Japanese people perceive this giant black man, how will they survive? But first things first, how will they get these shackles off their feet?



Tags: Historical , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Slavery , Nudity , Gambling , Survival , Yakuza