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Description
Four years ago, a large scale disaster in Tokyo claimed two million lives. The remaining thirteen districts of the city were isolated into the Tokyo Barricade Zone. Morisaki Harumi, an unruly kid with great fighting strength, is his family's sole survivor from the incident.

One day, in a traffic accident, Haru gets pulled into a world of violence and meets Mana, the girl who turned herself into an ancient sword.

Type
Manga

Related Series
XBlade 十 (Sequel)

Associated Names
クロスブレイド
Cross Blade
XBLADE ครอสเบลด
XBLADE刀

Groups Scanlating
Ala Atra
NCIS
Rocking Horse Scans
Twilight Dreams Scans

Latest Release(s)
v.12 c.46 by Rocking Horse Scans (3d ago)
v.11 c.45 by Rocking Horse Scans (25d ago)
v.11 c.44 by Rocking Horse Scans (31d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
12 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

User Reviews
N/A

Forum
1 topics, 3 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.2 / 10.0 (396 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.11 / 10.0
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Last Updated
September 22nd 2012, 3:32am PST

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Genre
Action  Drama  Fantasy  Mature  Shounen  Supernatural 
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Author(s)
IDA Tatsuhiko

Artist(s)
SHIKI Satoshi

Year
2007

Original Publisher
Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)
Shounen Sirius (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #106 increased(+119)
Monthly Pos #409 decreased(-269)
3 Month Pos #336 increased(+2174)
6 Month Pos #647 increased(+2380)

List Stats
On 2357 reading lists
On 788 wish lists
On 40 completed lists
On 104 unfinished lists
On 216 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Chapter 30? 759 days, 16 hours, 15 minutes ago

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 Mediocre   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by MangaGhost
July 1st, 2012, 1:46am
Art is ok, but inconsistent. Foreheads on some characters make them look like mutants. Main character is annoying. He's the cliched dumb but honest type. For a guy who is useless without his sword, he spends most of the time staying away from it. This often sets up situations where other people have to protect him and while they yell "run" (since he's unarmed) he's like "no I'll stay and be useless and moan about not having my sword and try and annoy you while you fight to protect me." The rest of the time he spends yelling or moaning, "mana, mana!" It gets old fast. MC uses a basic Kendo posture and somehow the author tries to make us think its the baddest posture in the universe (eyes rolling here). The real lesson that is trying to be conveyed is that Loli's are badasses so you shouldn't mess with them. Can you tell? After 30 chapters I'm less than impressed with story and art. I'm like, eh its ok at best.
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 Mature?   
Rating: N/A
by WandereroftheDeep
May 24th, 2011, 1:24pm
How is this not rated mature? There's a lot of killing going on, and there's at least one naked girl in each chapter. Am I the only one who thinks this should be categorised as mature confused

... Last updated on May 24th, 2011, 1:24pm
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 Couldn't get past chapter 1.   
Rating: N/A
by Leos Klein
May 24th, 2011, 3:56am
I didn't have a good feeling with the first chapter being named chance meeting and that feeling came to pass.
The main character is a bad ass fighter for no reason at all and incredibly pretentious as well as arrogant. If the main character is unlikeable I personally just can't go on. Not to mention he's the generic "I want to fight and have a grand adventure because my normal life is boring" type and I hate that nature of character more than anything.
For the most part the generic flashy shounen taste seems to be up everyone's alley as all the past reviews will reveal, even dating back 3 years from this one.
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 Just awesome as, one of the best for mee   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by John21
January 12th, 2010, 5:58am
Yess scanlation has started again, well atleast chapter 20 is out. Anywayz this is an amazing manga. From the beginning the hero is strong, good at fighting(well atleast normal people) and definetly not a wimp unlike most of the heroes in shounen mangas. Also he can bekum insanely strong by letting dis otha spirit control his body but instead he chooses not to and instead prefers to work hard himself in improving his sword skillz making me like dis dude even more. Furthermore hez a total badass startn from chapter 1. The heroine is cool as well and also strong herself. Artwork is just simply amazing and the plot is interesting as well. There is so many mysteries here, unanswered questions, hidden agendas and awesome fights and cool characters such as the genius souji making dis manga just damn awesome

... Last updated on January 12th, 2010, 5:58am
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 Great action/comedy manga   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by flapple
June 30th, 2009, 8:27pm
This manga is very very very good. Not perfect, but close. The romance is very light, and some people might not be able to tell at all who likes who, but still, the action is cool and this also isnt one of those mangas where the protagonist is a helpless geek/wimp, which is nice. Instead, it is the other cliche type protagonist, which is the hot blooded idiot with some unlocked potential.

Overall, this is a great manga and i would gladly recommend it to anyone.
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 really like it   
Rating: 9.9 / 10.0
by weronique
April 25th, 2009, 10:30am
i really like this series & what i like the most is that the main character isn´t annoying as it tends to be in another shounen series. and i really care about the art too, so that´s also why i love it.
really recommend it!
9,9 smile )) (coz nothing in this world is perfect lol)

... Last updated on July 4th, 2009, 9:24am
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 Promising new shonen series, well done but not groundbreaking.   
Rating: N/A
by a_v
November 4th, 2008, 2:28am
Very shoenen. If you like Busho Renkin, Erementar Gerad and others that combine action and school life (Mai Hime), chances are you'll enjoy this manga.

The protagonist is a typical shoenen protagonist (that is, gutsy, headstrong, and a bit stupid), but is allowed to show more character development (i.e. he gets his ass handed to him occationally), which in my view is welcome to the genre.

Other than that, it does have some very slight fanservice, but more often than not it's implied (this definately isn't Air Gear Ikkitousen), and the characters are well drawn.

This review is up to chapter 15, and while it has a couple scenes that are a bit redundant, overall it retains interest well at this point.
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 No Subject   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by Lippe-kun
October 6th, 2008, 12:49pm
Wow... this one remembers me of Erementar Gerade, but instead of edil raids this one has humans that were forged into swords...
Awesome art and storyline.
One of my favorites now smile
Though the main male cries a lot... well that's not really a problem i think...

... Last updated on October 6th, 2008, 1:48pm
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 ZOMG WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS SERIES?!!!!1 lol   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by Gynok
August 3rd, 2008, 4:01pm
seriously - an absolutely awesome series, which was seemingly just about to get a whole lot better when, for some unknown reason, scanlating ceased altogether? wtf? lol - ncis are, imo, a good scanlation group but some Xblade fans need their fix now, because it's about 4 months late
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 interesting   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by Juicifer
July 28th, 2008, 8:56pm
really interesting, really nice art, great premise, and im dying to know what happens next.

pick this one up, you wont be disappointed
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