The realism is umatched amongst those stories I know and I love Shirugui for that. It also opposes the hype around Katanas to a certain amount as, even though the fighters are extremely well trained professionals, swords easily break and it's extremly risky to attempt to parry a strike for this reason. It shows sword fights often beeing decided by the first strike, most hits are deadly or crippling instead of producing only slight cuts like often happening in various movies and manga. It's showing very realistic fighting scenes compared to common media which often are very unrealistic. The story contains heavy violence such as people beeing cut in halves, and nudity/sex. The two main characters are disciples of the middle social class Samurai Iwamoto Kogan, who is known as a legendary sword fighter. The scenario is early 17th century japan in a Samurai setting. Just too good to be called real, fitting the term of "legendary warriors".) Equally the overall scenario is very close to reality, it's basically a mix of historical facts, plausible fighting scenes and japanese myths (By myths I don't mean things like mythical creatures, but persons exceeding human limits to a certain amount in speed and power - but only very slightly, it's not really superhuman. Shigurui really not typical manga style, as the drawings are clearly aimed at close contact with reality. Latest anime and manga which really caught me definitly was Shigurui, so I thought of recomminding it:
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