Shigurui

Description

At the beginning of the Edo period (1603-1868), when people enjoyed a time of peace, Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga decides to hold a fighting tournament. In the past, matches were fought with wooden swords, but this time real swords will be used. The one-armed Fujiki Gennosuke and the blind Irako Seigen will fight each other in this tournament, even though both of them are disciples of Iwamoto Kogan — known as Japan's greatest swordsman. So begins the story of intertwining fates, conflict, and strange destinies.

Type

Manga

Related Series

Shigurui Ougihidensho (Side Story)

Kaina - Surugajou Gozen-Jiai (Alternate Version)

Associated Names

Death Frenzy

Shigurui - Le spade della vendetta

Одержимые смертью

シグルイ

剑豪生死斗

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

v.15 c.78-84 by AnonymousStem 14 years ago

v.14 c.77 by AnonymousStem 15 years ago

v.14 c.76 by AnonymousStem 15 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

15 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 7, Chap 32 (Skips Chap 23)

User Reviews

N/A

Forum

3 topics, 25 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8 / 10.0 (391 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.88 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 6th, 2022 12:58pm PDT - 3 years ago

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Genre

Action Adult Historical Martial Arts Mature Seinen Tragedy
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Akita Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Champion RED (Akita Shoten)

Champion RED Ichigo (Akita Shoten)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #602

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Monthly Pos #1870 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3063

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6 Month Pos #4175

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Year Pos #5244

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List Stats

On 617 reading lists

On 919 wish lists

On 826 completed lists

On 60 unfinished lists

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Shigurui Ending

14 years ago

Could someone tell me...

14 years ago

Awesome manga! Anyone know where I can buy this?

18 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Gotta be honest

by MLGSwag
2 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Gonna be honest, near the chapter 35 ish area, my brain could not comprehend what was going on, the art is good, but story is somewhat all over the place

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Great art.

by likalaruku1
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

I have one sentence to describe every manga by Yamaguchi Takayuki; No matter how many naked chicks & tits he puts into a work, he always finds to make it homoerotic.There are no exceptions.

Anyway, this would make an interesting live action movie. My favorite part is when Mie's dad finally died.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Disappointed

by justneedair
12 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Series were so good in the begining, pretty interesting in the middle, kinda ok in last chapters, but the ending ruined all positive emotions from reading it. So I think all that great time I had while reading first 40-50 chapter is wasted.
Pick this up if you like swords, human bodies, violence and totally lame ending.

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Shakespearean mind in the mind of the Japanese artist

by UsoSora
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I really have no words for this master-piece.
The only thing I can utter right now is that it felt like I was reading "Hamlet" in a world, culture and principles different than those of the original.

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Meh, waste of time

by slouchking
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

it was decent up till the end, all the volumes up to the end were pretty dramatic, then the final battle ended so fast, that it made everything before seem like someone telling the story adding flare to make it interesting, then the end hits you with how it actually happened, which would be fast, boring and no unnecessary drama,and as for the final actions of that girl, due to the circumstances he had to do what he did or he would have been killed on the spot, so i think shes a cold heated bitch. I give it a 4, for being dramatically boring

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War is hell...and so is being a samurai

by McCamyTaylor
14 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Love the art, of course.

Story is pretty good too. If I had read it slowly as it was written I would have complained about the pacing as well. Since I read it all in one go, it seemed about right. Not sure what happened to the intersexed samurai girl and toad boy. They got introduced and then sort of forgotten. But Seigen is totally cool. Great tragic hero. Both his flaws and his virtues are supersized!

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Good read

by PitylessEnvy
15 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Entertaining manga: excellent art; really interesting story and characters. Some really intense scenes that keep you starving for more.

My only problem is the pacing. It takes forever for something to happen in this manga. Just when you think some plot development is going to happen, it veers off in a completely different direction. Now the side stories are all very entertaining and usually pretty important to the plot, but it does get pretty annoying when you just want to find out what happens next.

I also feel that the gore is usually just there for shock value. Now, I have no problems with gore, it's actually amazingly well drawn actually (I've never seen evisceration and dismemberment depicted so accurately!)--it's just used inappropriately at times.

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this isn't gore, it's a plot device

by son of eskimo
15 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

got to say, this is without doubt one of the best things i have ever read. and that is despite the gore, because while i do not like gore, saw 3 being the only movie i have ever walked out on, it fits this story perfectly, and actually serves a purpose in telling the story, as opposed to other shit out there which has gore just for the sake of it, as this is a serious, brutal and dirty story about a serious and brutal part of society

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a top

by TAIMAT
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

good > high-class art + good story + historic value + serious
bad > slow story at times
overall > among millions of manga titles ... Shigurui surely stands out

thanx kotonoha for starting it, spore & notspore & AnonymousStem (r they the same?) for reviving it

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My favorite Manga/Anime ever!

by Hart80
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

I love this manga, and all it entales Samurai have been depicted to lightly in past series such as Rouroni Kenshin, Samurai Deeper Kyo etc. This series is the most realistic Samurai series out there! It's a great read, and probably the closest thing to what it was like to be a Samurai in fuedal Japan.

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