Blade of the Immortal, Vol. 11. Beasts Review

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Blade of the Immortal, Vol. 11. Beasts ReviewIt is a rare thing for me to actually read a manga series in the correct order. This much something to do with the erratic way I come upon them. 'Blade of the Immortal' is typical of what happens. I started in the middle, read books at the ends, and finally finished up in the middle again. This is the first time (outside of volume 1) that I have read one of these stories knowing everything that went before. Typically of me, this is one of those issues where that is hardly an advantage.
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the level of violence in Samura's stories. Moderation is rare in these stories, and there is a limit to the number of body parts I can accept as plot devices. Don't misunderstand me, I like this series a lot, but sometimes it gets out of control. This is especially true of violence against women. Of which there is more than is needed to establish the villainy of the villains. At a certain point it stops being a plot device and becomes a major theme, but Hiroaki Samura doesn't seem to be going anywhere with it.
'Beasts' is a story that stands pretty much on its own. Its main characters are Hyakurin and Shinriji, two of the remaining members of the Mugai-Ryu sword school that is hunting the same Anotsu Kagehisa who is the object or Rin's quest for revenge. Both are resting from their last conflict when, suddenly, members of Kagehisa's Itto-Ryo show up in a surprise attack. They make a valiant defence, but Hyakurin is captured, bundled off to a secret location and tortured to find out what she knows about the people for whom she is working.
And tortured, and tortured, and tortured. This is a nightmare that successfully proves Hyakurin's determination, but is otherwise a test of what the reader can stomach. As relief to the inventive ways to cause pain, we see many flashbacks about Hyakurin's history. This part is indeed interesting, and I would have relished more history and less splatter. So this manga has a good story, good art, but is a test of intestinal fortitude. Be warned. If you like nails coated in hot pepper you won't have much of a problem. If you have a touchy stomach like me be prepared to take it carefully.Blade of the Immortal, Vol. 11. Beasts OverviewAfter traveling a long and perilous road together, Rin and her immoral bodyguard, Manji, have become separated, Rin risking life and limb in her pursuit of her family's murderer, the ruthless Anotsu Kagehisa, leader of the outlaw Itto-Ryu sword school. Manji is slowly recovering -- and reassembling -- after being dismembered by Itto-ryu thugs, and has set off to find Rin. Meanwhile, both friends and enemies are also assembling. Manji's ally, the beautiful assassin Hyakurin has put a lot of Itto-ryu swordsmen under the dirt, but the tides are turned when she falls under the hands of a group of Itto-ryu killers who will go to any length -- and spare no agonies -- to get her to talk. Collecting issues #66-72 of the ongoing series.

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