Man it still gives me goosebumps everytime I read those last 3-4 volumes. Just superb despite ho
Huh?
This post seems incomplete.
Man it still gives me goosebumps everytime I read those last 3-4 volumes. Just superb despite ho
Huh?
This post seems incomplete.
He's saying it's superb despite all the hos.
Roll up in the Waldenbooks, it ain't even 9.
Pull my posse inn to it, gotta get mine.
Manga on the shelves, acid and hennessy.
But dem ho's be in the row trying ta get volume 33.
But seriously, Lone Wolf and Cub hip-hop.
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When does the story really pick up for this?
I started a few weeks back reading in my spare time and it's cool so far. The one chap cases are good but after like the 2 or 3 chaps that's focused on Itto's past I'm eager to at least know when things get really good.
The first volume or two are a little awkward because they were still figuring out what they were doing, but the entire series is pretty solid. A liiiittle long in the middle (in that all the stories were still good, but you could have cut 3 or 4 volumes without missing much as they are all standalone stories with little bearing on the plot.)
Once the badguys have actually lost a few of their elites and start taking Itto as a serious threat is when it starts getting really interesting.
The last 10 or so volumes practically demand reading in one sitting.
It's like X Files for the first 19 books.
Episodic character development with a dash of period piece education and encounters with people, and the occasional chapter of plot development on the overall mythos.
Then the last 9 books are one big sustained finale arc that deals directly with the plot.
You have to keep in mind the overall series is based largely around exploring Tokugawa Japan and I mean exploring. Politics, religion, poverty, crime and law enforcement, firefighting, birds, and other things.
The series has the wolves and their conflict with the Yagyu in all of that, but the exploring is there for a long time.
@Sea:
Green Hair, are you Vietnamese?
I'm not. Those were the only New Lone Wolf and Cub chapter scans I could find.
Finally got time to read. One hell of a series. The best about samurai so far.
@Mugiwara_no_Ice:
Even Vagabond can't top this.
To compare the two manga, I think saying these two manga is at the two poles of a genre. Musashi was a swordsman(kenkyaku). Ogami was a samurai. There is a difference.
Vagabond is a manga about swordsmanship. It focuses on philosophy/art of swords. Whereas LWAC focused on how a samurai dealt with various situations of life. Politics and stuff. More actions, more schemes, less brooding. It's just so tragic, so sad, yet so heroic.
The world and the plot of LWAC is much more complicated. The story gives classic and poetic feeling. Romantic, but also cruelly realistic. The fights depend heavily in wit, not philosophy like Vagabond. That makes it more fascinating, creative and freshing.
Musashi chose the right path, to my ideal. He only chased after the ultimate swordsmanship, living with his passion for sword, just like other Inoue's protagonist. Just how I want to live my life.
Ogami, from the beginning, tied himself with power and politics, serving his Lord as the ideal of samurai. The tragedy happened to him and his wife is inevitable for one living in the political world. He competed for a position, he brought himself to the circle of killing for power. That is his Karma. Unlike Musashi, Ogami lived his life so miserably, or, not living at all, just enduring his life, till the day he avenged his wife. He never looked back, his philosophy was set in stone, while Musashi is still in his path to maturity. To me the life Ogami chose was a meaningful life (even though Fate had him did a lot of meaningful things in his path), but the tragedy is what I like about LWAC, where humans have to deal with so many cruel situations, make so many tough decisions, conflicting in oneself and in the world. Many people died for so ridiculous reasons, like the samurai whose head Daigoro peed on, or the father of the kid whose kite Daigoro stole. but that is their samurai way.
One of the few things that annoyed is basically every beautiful women look the same. And sometime the eyes are off-balance.
The art, in my opinion, is quite artistic, but not really skilled.
I finish the series. The ending was splendid.
It felt a bit pointless though. Retsudo after all was a respectable man, loyal with the shogun. The Yagyu played an important role in the shogunate, keeping the world at peace. Was it loyal of Ogami to uproot the Yagyu for his personal feud? Unless, it's a hidden message that the shogunate system and what it represented had to end someday.
Retsudo remained unwounded through out the battle with Ogami. So, he could heal that wound caused by Daigoro, if he wanted, of course. I like how we don't know if he died, so, reading the sequel feel forced.
Welcome to the club Sea. Glad you finished it.
You're Vagabond Lwac comparison was good of course the 2 are two completely different manga, one wants to portray a whole country with its landscapes, culture, politics, etc.. and the other is about human growth.
Sorry to bump this thread but just started this series and it's awesome!! one thing I wanted to know though, does a general storyline develop or does it just continue the way it is, each chapter being a new story of how he assassinates someone
There's a running plot and continuity throughout, but it's mostly standalone for a big chunk. Then the last 10 volumes or so turn into one big continuous story.
@RobbyBevard:
There's a running plot and continuity throughout, but it's mostly standalone for a big chunk. Then the last 10 volumes or so turn into one big continuous story.
Thank You!!!
really looking forward to this now, a lot of well respected members had it high up in their manga tier so I had to read it and it's great so far
I only read the first volume of this series and i'll most likeally pick it back up once I get caught up reading Historie.
I was wondering if this was real (as in believed in by real buddhists) or is it just something the author made up???
I was wondering if this was real (as in believed in by real buddhists) or is it just something the author made up???
You'll have to be a little more specific about what "this" is.
If you mean like bushido, Meifumadô (the path of hell stuff), or any of the cultural stuff, that was all pretty heavily researched and accurate.
Plus most of the important named characters were real people that actually died or disappeared never to be seen again in that very time frame, aside from Oogami Itto (as far as I am aware). The author only came up with one heck of a plotline that made all the tumult of that period look like one man's doing.
The research job done for the realisation of Lone Wolf and Cub alone is enough to make it one of the most respectable works out there.
@RobbyBevard:
You'll have to be a little more specific about what "this" is.
If you mean like bushido, Meifumadô (the path of hell stuff), or any of the cultural stuff, that was all pretty heavily researched and accurate.
ahh sorry I meant Mumon seki the path of the assassin to walk between heaven and earth
By far the best manga series that have ever existed.
Live action; English language of the critically acclaimed manga series; http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-06-28/live-action-english-language-lone-wolf-and-cub-film-planned-in-2017/.103713