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I'll start by saying that this may be one of the most underappreciated mangas of all time. A big factor in this is the bad anime adaption, but the manga itself is truly great. If it ever gets a new anime adaption this series could blow up.

So, first, the story. It starts with a simple but intriguing premise. The master swordsman and samurai Demon Eyes Kyo, said to have killed a thousand men at the battle of Sekighara five years earlier, has had his body stolen from him, and is now seeking to regain his former power. This starts a bloodstained journey filled with ... fearsome foes, monstrous allies and many old mysteries. The story reaches to unforseen heights but is always at its core the way of the samurai.

Accompanying Kyo is a big cast made up of colorful characters. There's the vengeful bounty hunter seeking retribution for the murder of her brother, the son of the Shogun seeking to make his own way in life and become his own person, and a famous general who oppsed the rule of Tokugawa, now seeking to overthrow the current establishment and restore his clan's former glory.

The art is one of the most outstanding parts about the manga, and goes hand in hand with the great fights. It's crisp and detailed, with no unnecessary scribbles. The different attack moves are gorgeously drawn and eye catching.

Definitely a 10/10 masterpiece for me

i found this in 2025 at a thrift shop for 50c and reading the reviews a lot of people thought the same thing about it being similar to bleach and naruto. going to prob binge read it in one night (tonight) so THANK YOU thrift shop!!!!!!!

so far i believe the story isn't really unique but it caught my eye and i laughed multiple times reading so it doesn't really matter tbh. i like the art style!!!! very nostalgic imo and kyoshiro is just like me fr

first volume was super interesting and i think its safe to say that i'll be continuing this probably after ... i publish this.

my ideas may feel out of place but bear with me


I'll get to the point, the author tried to copy naruto(ninjas) with samurais, the only difference was that the mc was a little different as he didn't talk much, but the side characters did the talk for him such as he did this and that act for this reason ...

Each fight was in the following loop
- mc or one of his friends meet a really tough opponent
- they got beaten up badly
- a flashback is brought in were our fighter need to protect the mc and his friends
- new power unlocked : ... power of friendship
- the villain is beaten up
- the villain needs to protect as well, a fight follows up
- then the fight end, and the mc or someone
doesn't kill the villain because of some weird reason

No one of the mc and his friends dies, even tough they are full of injuries they keep fighting and never once they got killed, they always come out as winners

The fmc was useless, never fought but kept being a burden, and screaming the name of the mc when he's losing or that she believes he will come and save her

The story was messed up,too many plotholes and contradictions for many of the secrets revealed later on the story

I'll give some examples (spoilers)
After hearing the name "sakuya", the mc wake up completely and take over the body, but in the end we know that there's barely any relationship between the two, nothing major and crucial to give him the urgency to wake up

The second mc and some of the mc friends kept telling yuya(fmc) that the mc made every girl he knew unhappy, but never once we saw why, neither it seems likely

We never know how the second mc took the mc body, nor how the latter soul ended up in the same body as the former, and what make it even funny is that after regaining his body, the mc is forced out by the second mc from his body, while the mc can't do the same even though he is the main host

At first , the narrative  was that the mc was always in jail when he way young by his clan, but later for some reason he end up in a remote place killing one of the villains and  foiling the villain and his clan ambitions ...

I can keep going on and on with the contradictions and loopholes,  that it makes me regrets having read this manga