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Title The City that Speaks to the Sky
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2006
First Printing Humanoids - 2014
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Title Like Leaves in the Wind
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2008
First Printing Humanoids - 2014
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Title The Perfect Stroke
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2009
First Printing Humanoids - 2014
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Title The Abomination's Hidden Flower
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2011
First Printing Humanoids - 2014
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Title Kamigakushi
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2014
First Printing Humanoids - 2015
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Title Yamibushi
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2015
First Printing Humanoids - 2015
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Title Namaenashi
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2016
First Printing Humanoids - 2018
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Title Wunjo
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2018
First Printing Humanoids - 2018
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Title Mist
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2016
First Printing Humanoids - 2019
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Title Rain
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2017
First Printing Humanoids - 2019
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Title Fire
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2018
First Printing Humanoids - 2021
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Title Flesh
Author Saverio Tenuta
Illustrator Saverio Tenuta
Publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés - 2021
First Printing Humanoids - 2021
Category Graphic Novel
Warnings Graphic violence
Main Characters Raido, Meiki, Kenshin, Aki, Kenta, Daisuke, Shinnosuke
Main Elements Demons, spirits
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Click to read the summaryWunjo

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My library is associated with a website called Hoopla that allows you six borrows a month, but now and then there are "free" borrows that don't count towards that six. And that's how I came to borrow the first in this series, I hadn't heard of this series before and I love stories set in feudal Japan.

I'm not sure I loved the first quartet. While the artwork was stunning, and the tale a complex one to resolve I think I was a bit overwhelmed by the violence, gore and horror. Here we have a tale of an amnesiac ronin with a pair of powerful magical blades and only one arm. However I loved the Izuna quartet which takes place before the Scarlet Blades. The spirit wolves, the Izunas, are beautiful creatures and I was glad to learn more about them. Finally in the third quartet, The Mask of Fudo, it focuses on the origins of a villain from Scarlet Blades and how he became the masked monster that we saw there. This one left me confused at times, but by this point I had already been drawn into the world of kami, magic, ninjas and samurai. This third set tied the first and second together in the chronology.

I don't know what else to say other than to repeat the artwork was beautiful. Watercolours, magical, atmospheric and at times terrying. If the artist decides to write more in this world I'll be happy to read them, though I suspect that the tale is quite complete now.




Posted: January-February 2023

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