Proud to be a Samurai

**"Heed ye scoundrels, I will kill you all."** Gennosuke Inoko is a buraku, a group of people considered to be less than human. Taken in by a dojo and a practitioner of Kenpo, Gennosuke exhibits tremendous skill and a dangerous ferocity. The other members of the dojo conspire against him ending with Gennosuke killing the sensei he thought he trusted. Embittered and lonely, he seeks to eliminate those who wronged him at any cost. Was a very controversial work and many copies were recalled. What has been scanlated on MangaDex is a 2004 release that contains censored dialogue (as represented by Xs and Os) along with an essay giving insight on the controversy. What's also included is a redone version entitled *Heed ye Scoundrels* (alternatively, *Heed my Words*). The official English version that is linked contains the *uncensored* version with the original dialogue and a 2004 essay, as well as the apologies from Hirata himself as well as the (infamous) Hinomaru Bunko. Though, dismayingly, the redone *Heed ye Scoundrels* version is not included. **Links** - Official English (Retrofit Comics) Retail - [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Stumps-Samurai-Hiroshi-Hirata/dp/1940398916/) - Alternate Official English - [Comix India](https://comixindia.org/product/verite-03/) (Re-lettered English translation of Retrofit Comics along with Hindi translation by Mili Yadav)

Hirata Hiroshi chronologies 1970 - 1971

Three short samurai stories with seven chapters from Hirata Hiroshi in The Perpetual Cycle of Revenge. Stories Include: 1. The Great Hell Castle (Chapters 1-5) 2. The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: Bloody Daruma Warrior 3. The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: The World's Greatest Headbutt

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering one-shots from every Garo mangaka up until 1984.

This manga is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro). - **The Ballad of Zatoichi:** Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi." Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels, he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to stay and defend the town or to leave and be on his way. - **Zatoichi's Pilgrimage:** After he's ambushed in a small village terrorized by a gang of thieves, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. As fate would have it, his travels soon lead him to Okichi, a woman whom Zatoichi discovers is the sister of the young man whose life he stole. In anger, Okichi attacks the blind swordsman, but her conscience gets the better of her, and as she tends his wounds, the two fall in love.