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Blade of the Immortal Volume 6: Dark Shadows by Hiroaki Samura

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brambresseleers's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Perhaps not as stellar an entry as volume five, but this entry in this series sets up the next arc in an intriguing way. There is a new faction in town that is going after Anotsu and his men. Even though they are technically on the side of Manji and Rin, they don't all seem like good men to begin with. If this is the kind of moral dilemma that others told me about before starting the series, then I am well on board with what it has to offer. It's a little 'setty-uppy', but the confrontations should be a joy to read.

crookedtreehouse's review

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3.0

For the first time in the series, the book opens focusing on unfamiliar characters as we broaden the main cast. I appreciated the change to the familiar narrative format of the story but I wasn't enthralled with the new characters.

While I didn't enjoy this volume as much as the previous five that doesn't mean it isn't also good, as it is progressing the plot in an interesting manner, and the art appears to be getting even better as the series evolves.