![]() Thanks to the stunning artwork, though, the series seems all the more brutal. The series contains very little dialogue, instead using its stunning artwork to get the message across. The gore is almost overwhelming he devotes exactly as much attention to the guts when they're outside as when they're inside. Yamaguchi seems to have a medical knowledge of the human body and likes to show it by giving us flash views of what the organs, or nervous system, or bones, or muscles of a particular person are doing - usually in the midst of a fight or strenuous activity. The series tells the story of the two samurai who once belonged to the same school and how they got to this point, both maimed and determined to kill each other. The fight is about to begin - and then we cut to a Flash Back which lasts the rest of the series (so far). Both samurai are accompanied by women Irako is led by a woman named Iku, and Fujiki is aided by a young woman named Iwamoto Mie who seems to bear a grudge against Irako. ![]() The story starts with a fight between the blind, lame samurai Irako Seigen and the one-armed samurai Fujiki Gennosuke in a tournament for the daimyo Tokugawa Tadanaga. Shigurui is a manga series based on part of Nanjou Norio's historical novel Suruga-Jō Gozen Jiai the manga itself is illustrated and co-written by Yamuguchi Takayuki, and made into a 12-episode anime in 2007.
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