Anime Series
 Blade of the Immortal is a Japanese manga series by Hiroaki Samura.[3] The series won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival[4] and the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2000 for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material.[5] The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period, beginning in the 2nd year of the Tenmei era or 1782. Blade of the Immortal is being released in the United States by Dark Horse Comics and is up to 19 volumes. As of November 2007, Dark Horse has ceased publishing Blade of the Immortal in a monthly format, choosing to concentrate solely on the collected editions. |
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