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This is the Edo-era samurai guts. Controversial, tough, angry, highly skilled and lost in a time of peace, the characters of Satsuma Gishiden tell a quasi-historical tale of social caste and brutal reprisal. Readers with a taste for Kazuo Koike's gritty Lone Wolf & Cub will go nuts for master gekiga artist Hiroshi Hirata's tome of samurai struggle. Hirata's art and calligraphy leap off the page during scenes of action, only to unfold upon a full bleed that looks like a fine plate print. It's art at is most expressive, accentuating the classic stoic samurai characters you've come to know, only with a little more true society thrown in to help the reader understand what it was really like to be a warrior without a war.
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Satsuma Gishiden, Hiroshi Hirata
- Language
- Released
- 2006
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- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €87.99
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- Title
- Satsuma Gishiden
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hiroshi Hirata
- Publisher
- Dark Horse
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 1593075170
- ISBN13
- 9781593075170
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Comic Books, USA, Manga, Japan
- Description
- This is the Edo-era samurai guts. Controversial, tough, angry, highly skilled and lost in a time of peace, the characters of Satsuma Gishiden tell a quasi-historical tale of social caste and brutal reprisal. Readers with a taste for Kazuo Koike's gritty Lone Wolf & Cub will go nuts for master gekiga artist Hiroshi Hirata's tome of samurai struggle. Hirata's art and calligraphy leap off the page during scenes of action, only to unfold upon a full bleed that looks like a fine plate print. It's art at is most expressive, accentuating the classic stoic samurai characters you've come to know, only with a little more true society thrown in to help the reader understand what it was really like to be a warrior without a war.