Yamada Asaemon is a ronin as well, but he has built a career testing new swords for shogun.
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I haven’t read the series yet, but I know enough to have preconceived notions of his character. Asaemon is featured as the main character in a different graphic novel series by Koike which ran parallel to Lone Wolf and Cub, starting 2 years after the publication of Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. This is a beautiful tale told with minimal dialogue, but it expresses quite a bit to the reader about Daigoro and Itto’s familial relationship.ĭecapitator Asaemon was the most disappointing of the stories for me. We get to relive some memories with him and start to understand the Way of the Warrior much better. This story also sheds more light about Itto, but not through dialogue. Daigoro waxes eloquent (for a three-year-old) on what his life could have been like without following meifunmado. He has only known his father as a warrior, and this story opens with Itto working in a rice field. In this story, we learn more of Daigoro and his perspective on life. This, unlike the previous volume, truly deserves to be called to attention. Thus, we reach the title story, Black Wind. Here we see Itto panic, but little do we know or expect how he will respond. Upon this discovery they (stupidly) decide they will lure Diagoro to them and threaten the boy’s life in exchange for the apparent extreme wealth Itto is carrying around with him (seriously, where does all that gold go?! I hope we learn for real soon enough…). Six down-on-their-luck bounty hunters learn who Itto is during a pass through a town. We can all imagine how that ends for the Yagyu….Įxecutioner’s Hill is where we start to see Itto’s passion for his son. Using this, the Yagyu clan lure Itto into a trap.
We learn the rikudo gofu talisman is posted with instructions for Itto to follow once he sees it. In retrospect, this is odd since no one seems to recognize his face out in the world. Never have we learned how people have located the infamous kogi kaishakunin. Throughout these stories, we’ve only ever met Itto as he approaches someone who wants to hire him, after he has been hired, or mid-negotiations. In Trail Markers, we learn how people have been locating Itto and hiring him. Being ronin and invested in meifunmado and all.)Īs with the previous volumes, we get to see 5 vignettes in Ogami and Daigoro Itto’s lives, each one granting us more insight to Itto as a father, and Daigoro as a true ronin: And, perhaps, the only one who will survive. While he is only three years old, he is still an integral character to this story. We also get to explore more about Diagoro. But we’ve never seen that he is more than an assassin with a son. We’ve watched him push aside human feelings in many situations to do what he has to do, and we’ve listened to people he’s encountered and other ronin lecture him about it.
Once he is hired to complete a job he completes it. For 4 volumes we have watched Itto slay countless men in the name of meifunmado. I’m not trying to be sarcastic or condescending here. Volume 5: In which we begin to really see that Ogami Itto is a flesh and blood man.
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