Samurai Executioner Volume 5

Samurai Executioner Volume 5
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781593072117

Striking similarities between Lone Wolf and Cub and Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's sidebar story line, Samurai Executioner (known as Kubikiri Asa in Japan), are evident in the cool attitude, rebellious honor, and unflappable bushido of the lead characters of both series, but readers will delight in the whole new crime-fiction genre of Edo-era samurai spirit in Samurai Executioner. Here, we enter a world of harsh and violent crime and the forces that stand against it. In this volume, after initial stories of criminals' lives leading to their executions, we meet two Edo-era police officers and explore their specialized methods of capturing crafty criminals. Then, in Koike's signature fashion, the volume ends with a psycho killer's grueling and violent end. It's a history lesson, an art education, and a pulp sensation, all wrapped up in one fantastic series. • FOR MATURE READERS

Samurai Executioner Volume 1: When the Demon Knife Weeps

Samurai Executioner Volume 1: When the Demon Knife Weeps
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2000-07-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1621152510

From the creators of Lone Wolf and Cub comes Samurai Executioner. It's true! Before Koike and Kojima created Itto Ogami, they created Kubikiri Asa, better known to Lone Wolf readers as Decapitator Asaemon. He was the equal to Itto, bearer of the sword Onibocho, the man charged with the duty of testing the swords for the shogun. Samurai Executioner is based on the decapitator himself, in life before his fatal duel with Lone Wolf. Expect the same legendary drama, frantic action, and stoic samurai stature, combined with the exemplary art and storytelling that made Lone Wolf and Cub one of the most popular and influential comic books in the world! • Never before published in America, Samurai Executioner was the precursor to one of the most seminal works of manga, Lone Wolf and Cub! • Since the inception of its Lone Wolf and Cub publishing program in 2000, Dark Horse has sold over 800,000 copies! And the series continues to sell thousands per month! • FOR MATURE READERS.

Samurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 1

Samurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 1
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781616553197

Collects materal previously published in the Dark Horse graphic novels Samurai Executioner. Volume 3: The hell stick; Samurai Executioner. Volume 4: Portrait of death; Samurai Executioner. Volume 5: Ten fingers, one life.

Path of the Assassin

Path of the Assassin
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007
Genre: Assassins
ISBN: 1593075081

A master ninja's duty is to protect the boy who would grow up to become Shogun and unify Japan.

Samaurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 2

Samaurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 2
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Graphic novels
ISBN: 9781616553203

Collects materal previously published in the Dark Horse graphic novels Samurai Executioner. Volume 3: The hell stick; Samurai Executioner. Volume 4: Portrait of death; Samurai Executioner. Volume 5: Ten fingers, one life.

Crying Freeman

Crying Freeman
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2006
Genre: Assassins
ISBN: 1593074786

He is Yo Himomura, deadly assassin for the 108 Dragons, the Chinese Mafia. But to the criminal underworld who fear him, he is known as Crying Freeman, the killer who sheds tears at the fate of his victims. A young, handsome, sensitive artist, Yo has been hypnotically programmed by his Dragon masters to kill on command: he cannot resists his masters' commands to kill; his masters cannot stop his tears of remorse. Written by the legendary Kazuo Koike, creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, and illustrated by the incomparable Ryoichi Ikegami, Crying Freeman is adult manga at its most challenging: dark, violent, morally complex, erotically charged and regarded worldwide as one of the classics of adult graphic fiction. Dark Horse Manga is proud to present Crying Freeman, yet another of the jewels in the crown of manga classics, presented in its original right-to-left reading orientation.

Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 1

Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 1
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1616551348

A samurai epic of staggering proportions, the acclaimed Lone Wolf and Cub begins its second life at Dark Horse Manga with new, larger editions of over 700 pages, value priced. The brilliant storytelling of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of Goseki Kojima create a graphic-fiction masterpiece of beauty, fury, and thematic power.

Samurai Executioner Volume 5: Ten Fingers, One Life

Samurai Executioner Volume 5: Ten Fingers, One Life
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2005-05-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1621152553

Striking similarities between Lone Wolf and Cub and Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's sidebar story line, Samurai Executioner (known as Kubikiri Asa in Japan), are evident in the cool attitude, rebellious honor, and unflappable bushido of the lead characters of both series, but readers will delight in the whole new crime-fiction genre of Edo-era samurai spirit in Samurai Executioner. Here, we enter a world of harsh and violent crime and the forces that stand against it. In this volume, after initial stories of criminals' lives leading to their executions, we meet two Edo-era police officers and explore their specialized methods of capturing crafty criminals. Then, in Koike's signature fashion, the volume ends with a psycho killer's grueling and violent end. It's a history lesson, an art education, and a pulp sensation, all wrapped up in one fantastic series. • FOR MATURE READERS

Samurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 3

Samurai Executioner Omnibus Volume 3
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2014
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1616555319

Collects materal previously published in the Dark Horse graphic novels Samurai Executioner. Volume 3: The hell stick; Samurai Executioner. Volume 4: Portrait of death; Samurai Executioner. Volume 5: Ten fingers, one life.

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Book Five Omnibus

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Book Five Omnibus
Author: Eiji Otsuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506714846

Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan find there's little call for their job skills...among the living, that is! But their unique talents allow them to work with the dead...carrying out the last wishes of those whose spirits are still trapped in their corpses, and can't move on to the next life! Book Five has the Kurosagi gang running into ever more bizarre incidents of modern horror, from mind-control mouse hats, to taxpayer-supported torture museums, to the most feared calamity of all...jury duty! Meanwhile, it seems a gang of corpse-clearing impostors is out to take away their meager business--and in America, someone's made a cartoon series based off them...?! Plus, three previously unpublished stories: a client whose psychological syndrome makes her believe she's dead; the mad robot scientist trio invents a zombie biker gang, and fugitives from a deadly cult hide out in the radioactive ruins of Fukushima! Collects The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volumes 13 and 14, plus the previously unpublished volume 15.