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In a world where humans and gods coexist, Arata is a member of the important Hime clan. One day he winds up switching places with Arata Hinohara, his counterpart in the modern world. As Arata of the Hime acclimates to the life of a high school student, Hinohara sets out on a life-changing journey in an unfamiliar land. A startling transformation gives Arata Hinohara a new perspective on his strengths and weaknesses, and he's left to face the fact...
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In the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara, Kojiro faces fear and desperation. Rather than being intimidated by these feelings that are new to him, Kojiro embraces them and allows them to shape him into the swordsman who will one day oppose Musashi in the best-known duel in Japanese history.
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"Kojiro is invincible under the sun! Sasaki Kojiro, renowned for his deadly 'swallow-cut,' is the man destined to be sword-saint Miyamoto Musashi's greatest rival and opponent in the most well-known duel in the annals of Japanese history. While Musashi is an untamed beast driven by pure instinct, Kojiro is an icy, cold-blooded killer. This volume further explores the background of the abandoned deaf orphan Kojiro as he comes of age and develops into...
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Arata Hinohara's greatest foes, the Six Sho, have challenged him at every step on his quest. This has now led to a potentially deadly confrontation between one of the most powerful of the Six Sho, Ameeno, and Ameeno's son, Nasake, one of Hinohara's most loyal companions. Yet this is only the prelude to a devastating attack from yet another quarter that, to Hinohara's amazement, echoes historical events from the modern world!
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"In the 11th year of Meiji, on the day marked in the Western calendar as May 14th, time once again begins to flow. The shocking midday murder of Department of Internal Affairs Chief Ôûkubo a fait accompli, Kenshin leaves for Kyoto, scene of chaos and bloodshed--against the wishes of nearly everyone who knows him as the gentle "rurouni." Awaiting him there is Shishio Makoto, the hitokiri who replaced the cold-eyed assassin Himura Battôsai who...
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"His sakabato broken in battle, Kenshin seeks out the man who forged it--Arai Shakkû--only to be turned away. Seikû, son of the legendary swordsmith, had for a time been continuing his father's work (the forging of katana, meant for killing), but has since given up that calling and spends his time making humble cooking knives. Respecting Seikû's wishes, Kenshin leaves without the desired blade ... but not before Shishio's spies learn that Shakkû...
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"A glimpse of the new Japan if the mad ambitions of Shishio Makoto should succeed is revealed when Kenshin arrives in Kyoto and meets him at last ... although the epic battle between them will have to wait. Pitted against Shishio's soldiers, Kenshin's reversed-edge sakabatô is broken--can it be reforged? Should it be reforged? For time has once again begun to flow, and violence once more washes over the land. Although Kenshin has abandoned the ways...
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The Great Kyoto Fire behind them (and casualities relatively slight), Kenshin and the others consider their next move. The Oniwabanshu may indeed be allies this time, but their leader, Shinomaori Aoshi, is not. Is Kenshin truly, as it is claimed, the only one who can bring peace to the former Okashira or "head"of the Kyoto-based spy group? Elsewhere, madman Shishio Makoto has made his own plans for Kenshin and the others, plans involving a "man-to-man",...
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Is there such a thing as divine will or guidance? Seta Sojiro, stopping for a moment in mid-battle with Kenshin, may be beginning to think so. When Sojiro made the fateful decision to ally with the monomaniacal Shishio Makoto, his family paid the ultimate price. But is the flesh of the weak truly the sustenance of the strong, as Shishio insists? Kenshin, whose Hiten Mitsurugi school places the protection of the helpless before all else, would surely...
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