From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   Name: 	Takemitsu Zamurai manga   
   Alternate Name: Bamboo Samurai, Samurai of the Bamboo Sword   
   Year of Release: 2006   
   Status: 	Completed   
   Author: 	EIFUKU Issei   
   Artist: 	MATSUMOTO Taiyou   [unique style]   
   Genre:	Historical, Edo, whimsical humor, supernatural   
      
   	Early one New Year's morning, rounin samurai Senou Souichirou sets foot   
   in Edo's Katagi tenements. Though he appears to be a cheerful and   
   well-mannered man, the inhabitants of the tenements initially regard him   
   with fear and suspicion.   
   	Kankichi, a carpenter's son, thinks that he is   
   not human; the neighbourhood cats converse about how "that man reeks of   
   blood". Ignoring the hostile reception, Souichirou pawns his sword,   
   inserts a bamboo replica into the sheathe at his waist, and settles down   
   to a seemingly normal life in the village. He befriends Kankichi and   
   earns the trust of both children and adults alike; soon becoming the new   
   school-teacher.   
     Months pass, and all appears to be well. But Souichirou   
   knows that wherever he may go, trouble and disaster will invariably   
   follow...   
      
   	Read this just last week and it has a unique style of artwork   
   while the story is intriguing.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)