Product Description

Mibu Kyoshiro, a traveling medicine peddler, is mistaken for the legendary killer, Onime-no-Kyo, by the beautiful bounty hunter Shiina Yuya. Yuya soon realizes her mistake but captures him anyway since there's small bounty on his head. The two arrive in a village ravaged by the Bantouji brothers and Yuya decides to capture them in for their bounties. That night Kyoshiro discovers Yuya's true motivation: to find the man who killed her brother. During their battle with the Bantouji brothers, Kyoshiro is brutally beaten. But once he draws his sword, he becomes cocky, his gaze deadly and his eyes blood red. Kyoshiro taunts the brothers telling them he will kill them all effortlessly. He has become Onime-no-Kyo! Kyo defeats the Bantouji brothers easily and turns to the last person alive: Yuya. Kyo decides to spare her so that she may hunt for her brother's killer, but promises to kill her if she fails. Once he puts his sword away, the spirit of Kyoshiro returns to his body. As Kyoshiro and Yuya head west, they meet Okuni Izumono, a miko (Buddhist nun) who claims to be a former love of Onime-no-Kyo. She is fleeing from a group of rebels after discovering their secret hideout. After running afoul with the local police, Kyoshiro and his two friends camp out under the stars. Yuya sneaks off to find the rebel hideout and steal their treasure. Kyoshiro wakes to find that both Yuya and Okuni are gone. After rescuing a young girl from a pack of wolves he ends up in the secret rebel village, where he discovers Yuya, safe and sound. A mob from the nearby town arrives and attacks the village. They are lead by Jimon, a blonde samurai who explains how Kyo humiliated him at the battle of Sekigahara. Angered by the attack on the peaceful rebels, and Jimon's attempt to kill the young girl he had saved, Kyoshiro draws his sword saying only, "He is coming...".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #372918 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 18
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

This is a MUST for all Manga Fans out there............
This is the first volume of the Samurai Deeper Kyo Manga Graphic Novel Series. (Incase you dont know what a graphic Novel is, its basically similair to a comic book but it has a deep story line like a navel.)
This Manga has LOADS of Comedy and Action in it which will want you to carry on reading and also want you to collect the rest of series.
Another cool feature of this manga is the fact that they kept it in its original Japanese form ( meaning that It reads from right to left) and all of the text is the proper translated meaning.
With all the Manga Books available nowadays you cant really make a choice of which one to get, but this one will definatly be worth your money and most importantly it will be a good choice.
So once again i recommend this book to all Manga fans or even if you want to start getting into manga.

Dissapointing
The art looked good and the lighthearted nature of this manga caught my interest at first, but after reading into it some more, the storyline is hard to keep track of and very rushed, and the dialogue seems to have little bearing on the events going on around it in some cases. Entirely failed to keep my interest.

kyo
i absolutely adore this manga, the plot races at lightning pace, and is always brimming with incredible action and a deep sense of mystery about the ancient powers that some of the characters posses. It is well written, with a good balance of comedy and deadly serious drama, (lots of blood too!)

Another striking feature is the incredible drawing, which captures the epic battles perfectly and does the story justice.

Although the truly great sequences only begin in later volumes, it all has to start somewhere!