#SHIGURUI MANGA SEXY SERIES#
Now, having seen six episodes out of the total of 13 produced, I’m tempted to claim Shigurui as one of the best series to air in 2007. It may sound a bit too much for some, but there is a grotesque honesty to the violence it’s realistic, painful and absolutely involving. Indeed, each wound is a considered blow, executed with the precision of a surgical knife entire noses and ears are lopped off without even a second thought while another samurai survives despite having his cheek sliced from ear to ear. This is a theme that runs through director Hirotsugu Hamazaki’s other work, Texhnolyze, a similarly bleak and violent exploration of flesh that refuses to pull punches when it comes to depicting man’s penchant for inflicting cruelty. The series has an almost pornographic emphasis on the human body and how it can overcome such great damage. Indeed, the only true “heroes” or at least, sympathetic characters, in Shigurui are the women who, despite being constantly degraded, somehow discover an inner strength and hope. In one particularly painful moment, Kogan suspects his shunned wife, Iku, of adultery (in fact, she is having an affair with Irako), and so he literally rips off her right nipple and feeds it to his second in command. They have no power they are constantly raped, tortured, mistreated and used as tools. It should go without saying, but the women in Shigurui aren’t treated with much respect, rather, they are essentially slaves. His followers, with their loyalty forced by insane Japanese traditions ingrained since childhood, rarely argue and simply maintain the system of abuse, torture and violence murder and dismemberment are simply a part of the job. It may sound straight forward, but Kogan is a harsh and cruel old man who flits between periods of disgusting senile incompetence and perverted blood lust. With both men being talented samurai, they first cross paths in the Kogan Ryuu kenjutsu doji, competing to surpass its current master Iwamoto Kogan and marry his beautiful daughter, Mie.
Cue the backwards time-skip the rest of Shigurui will follow these bitter and twisted adversaries from the very first moment they meet, both young and unscathed, to this final confrontation. Regardless, their hatred for one another is legendary and obviously, they intend to kill each other there and then. While Fujiki only has one arm, his opponent Irako is completely blind and, as if that wasn’t bad enough, is missing half of his left foot too. Two arch enemies, both samurai, are facing off in a very real death match, but this isn’t exactly a traditional battle. So, before going any further, please note this post is heavy on images of an “adult nature” though I understand many of you might be unsettled by such blunt depictions of sex and violence, the truth of Shigurui lies not in words alone, but its unrelenting presentation of old Japan’s institutional depravity. It’s natural, then, that Shigurui fits the bill the kind of anime many of us like to pretend doesn’t exist. There’s nothing wrong with that, but from time to time, I like to taste the other extreme too I mean a bit of the old “ultra violence”. Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled dungeons… at least until I found a hidden dungeon with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank dungeons! In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise.Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of “fluffy” anime series with heart-rending love stories and elegant ballet dancing. I'm someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of dungeons, the "World's Weakest".
My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. Scanlation Group: Jaimini's Box, Meraki Scansġ0 years ago, after “the Gate” that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. Alternative titles: I Alone Level Up, I Level Up Alone, Na Honjaman Level Up, Only I Level Up, Поднятие уровня в одиночку, 나 혼자만 레벨업Īrtist: Jang Sung-Lak 장성락 (REDICE Studio)
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