Manga like Soldier

Genres: Action

What is Soldier about?

Status: Finished

In the era of Tenmei's Great Famine, plagued by crop failures, desperate farmers sold their daughters to human traffickers, and those suffering from hunger were said to have resorted to cannibalism. It was a dark time. In the midst of this, there was a wandering swordsman who called himself the "Funeral Soldier", burying the past and flowing with the present.

During his journey, this Funeral Soldier, named Okasa Haminosuke, saved a woman who had been swept away by the Setagawa River near Ise. Through this encounter, he met a woman named Okimi and a female merchant named Genshi. Genshi would sell Okimi to a brothel, receive payment, and then help her escape, only to repeat the process with another brothel, earning money along the way. At first glance, it seemed like a simple relationship between a female merchant and a woman being sold, but their lives were intertwined with the horrifying reality of famine, a tale they couldn't share with anyone else.

Tags: Seinen , Martial Arts , Female Protagonist , Samurai , Historical
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Lone Wolf and Cub

Kozure Ookami

Also known as Lone Wolf and Cub.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

An epic samurai adventure of staggering proportions—over 7000 pages—Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Okami in Japan) is acknowledged worldwide for the brilliant writing of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of the late Goseki Kojima, creating unforgettable imagery of stark beauty, kinetic fury, and visceral thematic power that influenced a generation of visual storytellers both in Japan and in the West.



Tags: Revenge , Samurai , Swordplay , Historical , Assassins , Episodic , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Gore , Ninja , Politics , Nudity , Yakuza , Primarily Male Cast ,
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Samurai Executioner

Kubikiri Asa

Also known as Samurai Executioner.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

In a prison world, there are few good stories, and this is the world of Kubikiri Asa, the beheader and master samurai under the Shogun. It's a world full of vengeance, greed, and violence. A world of depravity and sin. One man can set things straight if he can keep his wits. This is a story of extreme proportions, of sword study thick in tradition and with grim purpose, of blood rivers, agonizing screams, bondage, torture, and the evil prevalent in human failure. Drafted by the confirmed masters of the international medium of manga, Samurai Executioner is a shocking combination of darkness and fire, fine lines, and a fine man in the face of human decline.



Tags: Historical , Swordplay , Seinen , Samurai , Episodic , Gore , Nudity , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast
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Samurai Bangaichi

Samurai Bangaichi

Status: Finished
Genres: Action



Tags: Samurai , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Historical
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Tatamidori Kasajirou

Tatamidori Kasajirou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

About the continuing investigations of the Edo policeman Sakane Kasajiro and his marriage to Sakane Shinko.
The protagonist of the Kubikiri Asa, Yamada Asaemon, is also present and continues his bloody profession as an executioner.

Tags: Seinen , Samurai , Historical , Police
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Shichinin no Samurai

Shichinin no Samurai

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama



Tags: Samurai , Ensemble Cast
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Kubidai Hikiukenin

Kubidai Hikiukenin

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Japan feudal period. He came in battle, they began to share his life against an economic commitment. The battlefield where the samurai could fully experience the Way of Bushido, was coming off a less pure than the blood stain.

Tags: Seinen , Samurai , Historical , Episodic , Swordplay
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Satsuma Gishiden

Satsuma Gishiden

Also known as Satsuma Gishiden.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

This is the Edo-era samurai guts. Controversial, tough, angry, highly skilled and lost in a time of peace, the characters of Satsuma Gishiden tell a quasi-historical tale of social caste and brutal reprisal.

Readers with a taste for Kazuo Koike's gritty Lone Wolf & Cub will go nuts for master gekiga artist Hiroshi Hirata's tome of samurai struggle. Hirata's art and calligraphy leap off the page during scenes of action, only to unfold upon a full bleed that looks like a fine plate print. It's art at is most expressive, accentuating the classic stoic samurai characters you've come to know, only with a little more true society thrown in to help the reader understand what it was really like to be a warrior without a war.



Tags: Seinen , War , Samurai , Historical , Swordplay , Conspiracy
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In Dreams

Yumennaka

Also known as In Dreams.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Winner of the 12th Tetsuya Chiba Awards.

Tags: Seinen , Tragedy , Nudity , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual
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Goyoukiba

Goyoukiba

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama



Tags: Seinen , Samurai
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Kaina: Surugajou Gozen-Jiai

Kaina: Surugajou Gozen-Jiai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

This manga features violent stories of passion and swordsmanship, set in the Kan'ei era (1624-1643). It opens with a match between two damaged swordsmen. Irako is blind, and his opponent, Fujiki, is missing an arm. It has been decreed that their match will be fought with metal swords, instead of wooden, so one of these men will die. The story that led them to this final match, and gave them their handicaps, involves ambition, the selection of the heir for a dojo, and the passion of two women-- one the dojo master's daughter, and the other his lover.

Tags: Samurai , Historical , Swordplay , Seinen
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