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Each one of us has read that one manga that just went on for too damned long. The longer a story drags on, the more opportunity it has to falter and develop weak spots, and many people are too busy or just don’t have the attention span to keep up. So, could there possibly be a manga that defies this unfortunate pattern? Well, if you’re willing to buckle down for a long haul, then the answer is “yes,” and it comes to us in the form of Samurai Deeper Kyo.

Four years after the famous Battle of Sekigahara, a simple medicine man named Kyoshiro Mibu is wandering the land trying to find someone to heal so he can make enough money to eat. He comes upon a woman named Yuya Shiina, a bounty hunter who intends on turning Kyoshiro in for skipping out on a restaurant bill. When the two are attacked by a demon, Yuya discovers that within Kyoshiro lies the soul of a man famous for the slaughter of a thousand men, Demon Eyes Kyo. Kyo has lost his original body and blames Kyoshiro for hiding it away from him, and decides to take over Kyoshiro’s body until he finds his original one. Yuya insists on tagging along so she can turn Kyo in since he has the highest bounty in the area, but that will be the least of their problems as their journey delves into their pasts and into shocking events that threaten to tailspin the country into war once again.

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