Isekai Samurai

[Urdine]

finally back to some action!

 

[C3NTYV3]

The dragon ladys gonna have a human persona for sure.
That's the one i would go for.

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I just wish the author would have not exposed them all at once.
Breaks the suspension of finding out who the bad guys are...

Same here abut the bad guys part

 

[Crasical]

I thought we were told there were ten calamities in total? We've only seen six. The witch, the knight, the shadowy guy, the dragon, the smoking wolfman, and the hungry little kid.

 

[xyzzy]

It got licensed by Yen Press.

As per usual - the choice over whether a scanslation continues falls on the scanslators, not the publisher who picked it up. In other words, let the scanslation team know you would really really really like them to continue and pray for the best. And, well, support the official release if you can.

 

[PepperPower]

I tried reading this so many times because the art looks nice and I love Ginko's design, but every time I come out of it livid from the endless amounts of unnecessary exposition and dialogue. How can 90% of an action fantasy manga be just talking?

 

[ClarittRose]

Wife material

 

[Xylon666Darkstar]

I love my samurai wife of human struggles

 

[ZeroTwoBestWaifuEver]

of course it is

 

[PaozinhoNaChapa]

I've been enjoying the story so far. I'm usually not a big fan of samurai-centered stories, but this one has managed to keep me interested. The character designs are especially strong — visually appealing and unique. I also really like the protagonist’s facial expressions; they add a lot of personality. The overall visual style of the manga is great.

I hope the main character grows a bit — not just in strength, but emotionally. Right now, she feels like a “suicidal samurai,” but I’d love to see her eventually develop meaningful friendships and realize there are things worth protecting beyond just fighting and dying. Though, I’m not sure if that kind of arc will happen, especially since she has that “samurai way of life, dattebayo” energy.

I also enjoy how the manga doesn’t hold back — like when she just rips off her own arm. It's wild and over-the-top, but fun in its own way. Even if it’s a bit illogical, I can let it slide. I also appreciate that characters who seem like ultimate powerhouses can actually die pretty easily. It keeps things unpredictable.

8/10 for now.

Oh, and yeah — like someone pointed out, the expository dialogue can be a bit much. It’s a common trick to have a clueless character to explain the world and also turn the protagonist into a kind of vessel for the reader. But given the premise — a samurai thrown into a more advanced fantasy world — I kind of forgive it. There really wasn’t a better way to naturally introduce the world to her, I think.

 

[havelmom]

this work is a spectacle action manga, meaning that the art is superb, but there isn't real tension in any of the fights—
it's difficult to grasp the extent of Ginko's strength/ technique because there is no baseline for it— her sword will cut many times the length of the blade, for the sake of art, it looks cooler for sure chopping a monster in pieces rather than just stabbing an organ and it crumbles dead like any other animal
but there in lies the problem: we can't gauge how fast/ strong anything is, fights can look flashy but they have no weight, no tension; is anything at stake? we don't know.
when Ginko said that the wolf was too strong for her, it didn't really seem that way, because we're watching something that doesn't really have any base logic to what's happening. can he cut a house in half? a tree in half? a mountain? he broke a soldier's sword with ease, but her katana can parry her claws? logic bends to whatever the mangaka wants to happen basically, and that takes away from the action;

this reminded me of a chapter page in Bleach, years ago, where one of Aizen's strongest soldiers is fighting Ichigo, and after Ichigo teleports behind him, he throws this: "That wasn't Shunpo... it was Sonido!" —the only problem is... what's the difference? were we supposed to know? don't all characters teleport behind the opponent like it's nothing? the whole reveal is completely meaningless because we have no scale of what is supposed to be fast

so it just becomes gibberish, in fact, if he had not said anything, we wouldn't even know it was sonido, because it just looks like every other teleport behinds you moment— there is no shock or awe, because the power creep has rendered any scale of speed meaningless to the reader

this mangaka is so talented, I just wish he would learn to ground his "power scaling" into something that he can show/draw, instead of tell

 

[Ratblet]

Felt like getting the book today!