Kei no Seishun - Recommendations

• 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: 15; Ch: 149
• 2004 - 2007

Mounted warriors line up and rush to the assault. Brandishing swords on horseback, the warriors slash at each other... This kind of image of feudal combat is all a lie. Well, then, how did Samurai really fight? A declaration of war has now been made against the lie of combat that was forged during the Edo period, and continued uncontested to this very day.

• Vol: 15; Ch: 134
• 2012 - 2015

• Vol: 15; Ch: 149
• 2007 - 2012

• Vol: 4; Ch: 35
• 2000 - 2004

• Vol: 10; Ch: 39
• 2013 - 2016

• Vol: 4; Ch: 22
• 2013 - 2015

• Vol: 3; Ch: 25
• 1973 - 1974

The manga follows a man named Kazuryuu. Kazuryuu's mother, who was murdered, left him with a memento of the mystery of the "sculpture of the nine-headed dragon." Kazuryuu becomes a medicine seller and an assassin named "Baiyaku" in order to travel Japan and find out the secret of his birth, his name, and his mother's murder.

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 42+
• 2019 - ?

In early 19th-century Japan, a down-and-out samurai named Ryudo Konosuke struggles through his hardscrabble life. His dear departed mother’s last hope was for him to live his life as a splendid warrior, but a cruel curse repels and distorts any metal that gets near him. Will he ever be able to wield a sword, much less live the life of an honorable samurai? It is said that a samurai’s spirit rests in their sword—and Konosuke can’t even pick one up thanks to a cruel curse that repels anything made of metal that gets near him. Destitute and hopeless, he decides to end it all. But when a beautiful and mysterious woman saves his life and his soul, it is the beginning of Ryudo’s journey into a strange world of magic that exists a step away from his own.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 34
• 1999 - 2003

Toshikane is Hyogonosuke Yagyu's son. He tries to become originator of Shininryu,fencing school. First he goes to Edo to become master of Mitsutomo Tokugawa's strategy.