Blade of the Immortal
| Blade of the Immortal | |
Blade of the Immortal #1.
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無限の住人 (Mugen no Jūnin) |
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| Genre | Chanbara, Supernatural |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hiroaki Samura |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Afternoon |
| Original run | June 25, 1993 – December 25, 2012 |
| Volumes | 30 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kōichi Mashimo |
| Produced by | Katsushi Morishita Noboru Yamada Takuya Matsushita Tetsuya Kinoshita |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Kawasaki Kenichi Kanemaki |
| Music by | Ko Otani |
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Bee Train Production I.G |
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| Original network | AT-X |
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| Original run | July 14, 2008 – December 29, 2008 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Novel | |
| Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon | |
| Written by | Junichi Ohsako |
| Illustrated by | Hiroaki Samura |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | Dark Horse |
| Published | July 18, 2008 |
| Live-action film | |
Blade of the Immortal (Japanese: 無限の住人 Hepburn: Mugen no Jūnin?, lit. "The Inhabitant of Infinity") is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura. The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the cursed samurai Manji, who has to kill 1000 evil men in order to regain his mortality. The manga was originally published in Afternoon from June 25, 1993, to December 25, 2012. A 2008 anime adaption was produced Bee Train and Production I.G. Also in 2008, the novel Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon was released in Japan by Kodansha, and two years later in the United States by Dark Horse Comics. A live action film adaptation of the same name is scheduled for release in 2017.
Blade of the Immortal follows the deeds of Manji, a skilled samurai who has a decisive advantage: no wound can kill him, except for a rare poison. In the past, his criminal actions led to the death of 100 other samurai (including his sister's husband). He becomes immortal at the hand of an 800-year-old nun named Yaobikuni, and is compelled by the death of his sister to accept the quest that will end his agelessness. He has vowed to make amends by killing 1000 evil men, and until he does Manji will be kept alive by "sacred bloodworms" (血仙蟲 kessen-chū?), remarkable creatures that allow him to survive nearly any injury and reattach severed limbs even after hours of separation. They work by sacrificing themselves to seal the wound - they're worms that were bred to be as close in their chemical and physical make-up to humans as you can get without being human. They cannot handle regrowth on a large scale, but, for example, can reattach a severed limb or seal a hole in the brain.
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