Carried By The Wind: Tsukikage Ran - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 2004

Mugen is a rough-around-the-edges mercenary with a killer technique and nothing left to lose. Jin is a disciplined samurai who's as deadly as he is reserved. Fuu is a young waitress with a good heart and a resourcefulness that emerges when you least expect it. These three unlikely companions are about to begin a journey that will change all of their lives. It's a dangerous quest for a mysterious samurai that will see our squabbling group of heroes get into and out of trouble more times than they can count (which admittedly, isn't very high). From the cynical gentility of the nobles to the backstabbing of the Japanese underworld, Mugen, Jin and Fuu will face threats from without and within as they hurl insults and throwing stars alike. Ancient Japan is about to get a lethal dose of street justice—Champloo style. And it will never be the same.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 20
• 2004

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2005

• Vol: 18; Ch: 143
• 2015 - 2019

• Vol: 4
• 2011

Disguised as a man, Chizuru Yukimura has come to Kyoto searching for her missing father, a doctor who developed a magical elixir that increases the drinker's speed, strength and healing abilities. Instead of her father, however, she stumbles across a battle between the Shinsengumi and the Furies, evil vampire-like creatures of their own making.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 86
• 1983 - 1984

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 29+
• 2022 - ?

• Vol: 1
• 1954

This is a two-story collection featuring a story about a pot of gold, and another about an early attempt to open up Japan 40 years before the Perry Expedition.

• Vol: 6; Ch: 48
• 2013 - 2015

Set in the Edo period of Japan, the high-ranking daimyo of the Mito-domain cannot keep his bodyguards alive as they travel Japan. To replenish his bodyguards, they institute a recruitment exam aimed towards the poorest of samurais of Japan, "rounin." As a rounin, Inouse Shinnosuke attempts to prove himself to the ranking officials and escape poverty.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2021 - 2022

A village in danger, a mysterious child, warring daimyo, and the greatest ronin never known all clash in a Japan of magic and mechs. Learn the story of the first African samurai.