All Girls Want Bad Boys: Completely deconstructed and Played for Drama.
So don't even try, accept your miserable life for what it is and for what little you have left. You can fight the system all you want, you will fail miserably, everything you have will be taken from you, all your efforts will amount to nothing and you will be violently destroyed one way or another. Everyone gets maimed, killed, raped, disfigured, crippled or taken advantage of and there's nothing that can be done about it.
Nothing the protagonists ever do amounts to anything positive for anyone involved.
#Shigurui manga chapter 1 series#
All for Nothing: The common denominator of the series is perhaps the complete hopelessness and cynicism of The 'Verse.
However, the manga covers the backstory from the fourth chapter (Kutsuki Gannosuke vs Sasahara Shuuzaburou, featuring the Funaki dojo and the Sasahara clan) and features the main character from the third chapter (Tsukioka Yukinosuke), hinting that the author was going to cover more duels from the novel. The short chapter with Doi Toshikatsu (a minor character in both novels) is taken from the novel, and Goisagi himself makes a minor Continuity Cameo.
Adaptation Expansion: Of the first chapter (of twelve) from Suruga-Jō Gozen Jiai, with some minor details from Tadanaga's conspiracy taken out from the Bukon Emaki novel note A companion novel about the attempt of Goisagi Shizuma, a supposedly dead son of Sanada Yukimura, to overthrowing the Shogunate (with the help of ninjas) through the manipulation of powerful daimyos - especially the shogun's own brother Tadanaga, thus indirectly kickstarting Suruga-jo Gozen Jiai's plot.
However, Fujiki does enter into a similar frenzy while fighting against Tadanaga's soldiers after he escapes from the castle with Isoda, before Shuuzaburou decides to kill Fujiki by himself.
In the novel, Gonzaemon doesn't fall into a berserker rampage before fighting Irako.
A bigger-than-usual ape appears in the novel, but it's not a test to show Irako's skill to Tadanaga - it's a hint that the servant of the Sunpu castle that kills it with a thrown hairpin isn't quite what he seems.
However, Gannosuke does indeed throw a knife against her beloved Chika during the match, before Shuuzaburou deals him the final hit.
Likewise, in Gennosuke and Irako's tournament duel, Gennosuke throws the sword against Irako, not against Iku: Mie and Iku suicide themeselves after seeing their beloved Irako die.
Adaptation Amalgamation: Chika takes some minor traits from Suruga-Jō Gozen Jiai's Kinu Isoda (the Naginata user from the novel's second match, which fights against her cousin Zanami Kanzaemon - both of them have a minor Continuity Cameo in the tournament's roll call), like her proficiency with the naginata and being Tadanaga's special concubine.
The Ace: Irako Seigen initially appeared to be this, rising to the top of the Kogan school after only two years of study.
At the moment the match begins, the narrative jumps back in time to show How We Got Here: it tells the story of the two samurai who once belonged to the same school of swordsmanship and how they got to this point, both maimed and determined to kill each other. Both samurai are accompanied by women: Irako is led by a woman named Iku, and Fujiki is aided by a young woman named Iwamoto Mie who seems to bear a grudge against Irako. Our main characters are the one-armed samurai Fujiki Gennosuke and the blind samurai Irako Seigen, two Arch Enemies brought together by fate for one final Duel to the Death. The story begins at a deadly tournament with real swords ordered by the sadistic daimyo Tokugawa Tadanaga in 1629, a secret account of which records only six survivors out of twenty-two contestants. In 2007, Madhouse made a 12-episode anime directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and written by Seishi Minakami. Shigurui (シグルイ, "death frenzy") is a Jidaigeki martial arts drama manga based on part of Nanjou Norio's historical novel Suruga-Jō Gozen Jiai (mainly the first chapter) the manga itself is illustrated and co-written by Yamuguchi Takayuki.