Hattori Hanzo is a master ninja whose duty is to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogun who will eventually unite Japan into one nation.[...]
This volume of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's rich series finds Ieyasu both fighting for his life and looking at the future. First, a couple of eerie and mysterious ninja try to take his life, but find themselves foiled by the increasingly able ninja Hattori Hanzo. And then a nation's tribes face o[...]
Ninjas, samurai, hot lovin', political intrigue, and gold: "Path of the Assassin" has it all in spades! Hanzo, the hero ninja for the future shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, has been in some tight situations before, but nothing like the trap set for him by a ninja from a competing warlord's clan! And to sett[...]
The march continues as Japan's future shogun moves to the center of Japan to claim it as his own. But, along the way he'll have to deal with intense and complicated politics, strange and sometimes perverted fighting techniques, and a rapidly changing samurai culture in old Japan. And often the histo[...]
In the politics, struggles, and battles that lead to the birth of a nation, sometimes even good people must die at the hands of allies. And now it's down to only a few warlords of Edo-era Japan. History already tells the story of the victor, but the real guts of "Path of the Assassin" lie in the cha[...]
Assassins have been cast as the sensual and shadowy villains throughout history, but their exploits have never been so fully realized as they are within the pages of "Path of the Assassin". From the most intense sword fight, to a silent poisoning, no job has been too much for the infamous Hattori Ha[...]
Kazuo Koike's "Lone Wolf and Cub" is an acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction, and "New Lone Wolf and Cub" ("Shin Kozure Okami") is the 21st century sequel to this groundbreaking manga. Ogami Itto, the Lone Wolf, and his nemesis, Yagyu Retsudo, lie dead on the field of their titanic duel. Ogami's[...]
Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship, one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isolated from the world. How will the Japanese people perceive this giant black man, how will they[...]
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 [...]
Ronin samurai Ogami Itto and his young son Daigoro travel a dark road, beset by enemies sworn to destroy the Lone Wolf and his Cub. But how did Ogami, once the shogun's loyal retainer and trusted executioner, become a dishonored fugitive marked for death by the shogun himself? What hidden forces mov[...]
Yamada Asaemon has been trained since childhood in the way of the sword. Now, the feared "Decapitator Asaemon" tests swords and performs executions at the shogun's behest. Asaemon is the last stop for the condemned and often becomes final confessor as well as slayer, finding that sometimes the stori[...]
The shogun's sword tester and executioner--the o-tameshiyaku--is a position of great prestige requiring consummate skill. While the feared and respected Yamada "Decapitator" Asaemon holds the post, another swordmaster lives with the obsession of claiming the office, and this election can be won by o[...]
aigoro, young son of the slain swordmaster,"Lone Wolf" Ogami Itto, begins his own training at the hand of Togo Shigekata, Daigoro's benefactor and warrior of the Satsuma clan. But the secret message Togo carries to Satsuma is a fraud, and dark forces have aligned to ensure the planted message's deli[...]
Kazuo Koike's "Lone Wolf and Cub" is an acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction, and "New Lone Wolf and Cub" is the 21st century sequel to this groundbreaking manga. Illustrated by Hideki Mori and translated by Dana Lewis.
Togo Shigekata and the Lone Wolf's son, Daigoro, travel to Edo to kill a[...]
Created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, "Lone Wolf and Cub" has sold over a million copies of its first Dark Horse English-language editions, and this acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction is now available in larger format, value-priced editions.
Separated from his son while battling Yagu as[...]
Separated from his son while battling Yagu assassins, Itto Ogami's mission of retribution heats to a boil as he cuts through any obstacle to find his missing child. But little Daigoro, though a mere toddler, is the son of the most formidable and resourcefull samurai in the land. Though alone in a cr[...]
Yamada Asaemon, The shogun's executioner receives many strange requests from the condemned--a woman who bequeaths her severed locks to her beloved, a gardener who ask for the "beheading" of a chrysanthemum. And while strangers to Asaemon, their final moments and the stories behind their appeals can [...]
Kozure Okami - ensamvargen och hans unge. Dråparen med barnvagnen. Itto Ogami och hans lille son Daigoro har många namn. En gång var Itto Ogami shoguns officielle skarprättare med uppgift att avrätta rebelliska feodalherrar som satt sig upp mot shogun. Hans skicklighet med svärdet var legendar[...]