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      Satsuma Gishiden, Volume 1

      by Hiroshi Hirata
      Published
      Oct 2006
      Main Genre
      Fantasy Fantasy
      Pages
      264
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      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.

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      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Fantasy Manga

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      First Edition Oct 2006 Dark Horse ISBN13 9781593075170 ISBN10 1593075170
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