Souten no Koumori Manga

While out on the road, a young feudal lord named Chiyozuru stumbles across a girl laying unconscious in a stream named Henpukumaru and offers her a place to stay. Soon after her arrival, one of the young lord’s retainers, Gen’ichi, discovers that Henpukumaru is in truth an member of a ninja assassin group known as the Tekken who fled when she decided that she couldn’t kill any more. Having convinced him that her violent past lay firmly behind her, Henpukumaru begins to live a quiet life at the mansion. But when Choyozuru’s life becomes endangered, with the tentative assassin be able to return tp her old ways and protect her friend’s life?

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Violence

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It’s actually a pretty good manga about a “shinobi warrior demon” girl who has a bat shape birthmark on her face and is pretty much a badass like my god man, the fighting scenes with her were clean af. It’s just too bad this was cut short like it would have the potential to be a full on 90 chapters story. It’s even interesting to see that this manga is set in Feudal Japan because the author did well with Full Metal Alchemist so it’s a pretty nice shift to explore more by the author! Props to Hiromu Arakawa for creating this one shot, it’s really good folks to check out!

Henpukumaru's fighting style involves using a chain to either choke out or disarm feir opponent and then possibly finishing them off with a blade. I liked this fighting style and very much enjoyed the fight scenes. I also appreciated the context and backstories. Nice, solid storytelling that does a good job of getting us invested in the characters, who are otherwise honestly somewhat bland. I don't really have any major complaints about the manga, but it also didn't really excite me all that much. Still probably worth reading at least once, especially if you're a fan of manga about feudal-era Japan and ninjas.

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