1600 year. 10 years have passed since Oda Nobunaga unified Japan.
But he is getting old, and he feels that death will soon overtake him. But he is not interested in giving the country as an inheritance either to his own son, or to any of his relatives, or to any of his associates. The last thing the shogun wants to see is a fight. A fierce battle between martial artists for the title of the strongest and power over the country – “Tenkaichi”, a tournament of the strongest martial artists in Japan.
And only to the one who wins the final battle of the tournament, the old Nobunaga will hand over the land of the Rising Sun.
There are 16 applicants for the role of ruler, and a series of battles will decide which of them is worthy of being called the strongest and ruling a united Japan.
They did my man Nobunaga dirty..
Basically Record of Ragnarok with only Japanese fighters and without the gods. (Not to put it down or label it, this shit is in a league of its own)
I just read it and it was amazing you have to read it not only is the art godly every fight is amazing plus every character has a great story
Fucking metal af
The beginning was lit. The thing is, I read a comment that said that they don’t choose the winners in advance. I have to call BS bc of course Musashi wins it all. He’s not just the pinnacle of what it means to be Japanese, he IS Japan in many respects. More than that, you have ppl like Hatori Hanzo (as in the legendarily sharp sword from Kill Bill) and they expect you to believe that he’s going to lose when in the end Mushashi wins over whoever is against him. It’s very well drawn, but they make some of the ch so short and the fights so dragged out (one fight has 3 flash backs and I thought, “Get back to the fight already. What does his tragic upbringing have to do with him blocking right now?”). I know. Character development. Except ppl chose who they like mostly due to aesthetics and name recognition anyway. I’d give it an 8 out of 10, bc the fights really are gloriously rendered and that’s mostly why I’m here. You can feel the impactful contact of sword on sword, and that’s difficult to communicate visually.