Shikabane Hime

Description

From Yen Press:
Fight corpses with corpses. Reanimated corpses called Shikabane walk the earth, but the Kougon Sect of the Grand Marshal School of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism has the means to combat them. Enter the Corpse Princesses. Undead killers (usually young women) stand as humanity's first line of defense against the evil that lurks in the shadows but can humanity tolerate defenders who are corpses themselves? One Corpse Princess, Makina, may be the first to find out.

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Corpse Princess

La principessa cadavere

เจ้าหญิงนักล่าผีดิบ (SIC)

屍姫

Groups Scanlating

Akatsuki Manga

Dynasty Scans

Nekyou Memoir Scanlation

Sakugara Scanlations

Latest Release(s)

c.29 by Nekyou Memoir Scanlation 9 years ago

c.28 by Nekyou Memoir Scanlation 10 years ago

c.27 by Nekyou Memoir Scanlation 11 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

23 Volumes = 34 Chapters ? (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1)

Ends at Vol 4, Chap 15 (S1) S2 mostly original with an original ending

User Reviews

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2 topics, 3 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8 / 10.0 (140 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.7 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 27th, 2024 5:14pm PDT - 1 year ago

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Action Drama Ecchi Horror Mystery Romance School Life Shounen Supernatural
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Original Publisher

Square Enix

Serialized In (magazine)

Shounen Gangan (Square Enix)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Yen Press (23 Vols - Complete; digital)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

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Monthly Pos #1536

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3 Month Pos #3252

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6 Month Pos #4030

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Year Pos #6317

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List Stats

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On 899 wish lists

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Shikabane Hime Will End in September

11 years ago

Relation between manga and anime

15 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Still wanting for more ^_^

by yuber13
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

The concept is pretty cool. The protagonist's naivety can be annoying at times, but the story somehow makes up for it. At the moment, the chapter releases came to a halt, so if you're planning on reading it, be warned, cause you might get hooked and be left asking for more! ^_^

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i really like it

by rdx2
14 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

the shikabane hime anime hooked me on anime and manga in general - i recommend this.

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Hell_Clues

your complaints will disappear in future when the manga explains a bit more - i you dont want to wait watch the anime

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by Hell_Clues
14 years ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

Why not just have good guy corpses around too? My concern is that they thought the only way to make it about a girl is by having a reason to not have guys(which is unnecessary) and that's sort of what happend. But is it a bad reason within the story, nope, it isn't. It works just fine. I can also understand that the manga-ka wanted to jump into the action and have the character already be seasoned as oppose to freaking out. That means the explanation has to wait until another character is introduced into the world. I would have preferred this earlier, maybe with a different Shikabane than the main, in that way it wouldn't get in the way of her characterization. But it's fine.

We're given no indication as to why a living thinking girl is considered not a girl just cause of the corpse thing, it's just silly. Even if it's a dead thing in the fiction, it is still thinking and maintaining the personality it had, there's no indication of a change. Though It might be how the witch hunters in witch hunter robin were thought to be able to freak out and turn evil, despite that they were treated alright until later on in the story.

It kinda reminds me of Gun slinger girl where it sort of makes a girl tied to some guy even if its just for work and without the evil brain washing in that other series. It's also just needless. You don't need to make the situation unique just cause its a guy and girl, that doesn't have to be explained. But I don't think there's any fetishizing going on though, and it is more of a work partnership. And if it's just coincidence then that's fine, if it isn't, I hope the manga just points it out that the sect is reluctant to have women as monks for whatever reason(maybe cause it's combat oriented). This could also be tied to the father-daughter explanation that's behind the ritual, and that'd be fine too.

Some of the monsters have interesting visuals. The interaction with the slayer and her priest can be nice. And despite the corpse's healing abilities, they aren't very super powered, so the danger of loss(and death) is there. Aside from some moments of bad dialogue, the plot itself can be good.

I do like the characters, and the story overall reads closer to a seinen story. It can be action packed but it spends time building up what's going on, and the main character does look cool double wielding Uzis.

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One of my new favorites ;D

by rockstar72
17 years ago

Rating: N/A

ive only read 3 chapters but its frickkin awesome!!! =D
I love the idea that she always gets killed before killing the corpses
just got a feelin that main character loves that 1 monk

I wont give this a score yet since its pretty early to rate da whole manga
this is definately 1 of those mangas to watch out for!

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That Which Kills Her Makes Her Stronger

by Voyager9
17 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I picked up this manga after coming off of Love Hina and Gunslinger Girl - in exploring Kinokinuya Bookstores here in LA, I saw the cover of the volumes, and decided to give it a try: high school girl, guns, what's not to like?

However, what I discovered was truly a new kind of superhero. I've now 'read' all seven volumes. It's an incredible series. The character may take more abuse than any I've seen, but she has a great reversal: She is Indestructible, but not Invulnerable. And with this, in the first volume alone, she is stabbed, bitten, hung, shot, burned, diced, and eaten! However; That Which Kills Her Makes Her Stronger.

So by the time the arch-villains catch on, her strength and powers have grown exponentially....

In the recent, import manga I've read, this series reigns supreme. The manga has everything, kudos to "Random Thoughts" for his great review, the manga has ironic humor, light romance, and tons of bizarre monsters, blood, gore and action. It's not for everybody, but it's TOUGH.

Thanks for reading!

... Last updated 17 years ago

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