Samurai Deeper Kyou
Samurai Deeper Kyo

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One of the best manga i ever read. the story is very great and cool. the art is not that great but acceptable. there is so many great and cool character here. but there is some annoying thing in this manga that like:
(1) yuyaa girl commenting every battle like a mother watch his son crossing the road.
(2) many unimportant battle between main character and weaklings.
(3) the battle scene is very boring. im not gonna lie. its very very very boring.
(4) Most of the cool character are friend. so you cant see many awesome villains until halfway of the story.
But if you like a good ... story with great ending and some cool character, this manga is worth a read

First of all, I think it is a shame to see how many people look at Samurai Deeper Kyo and refer to the anime first hand. The anime adaptation only follows a mere shell of the manga's story and a lot of the original characters from the manga are absent. The animation quality is below average in most scenes and to be honest, could arguably be one of the reasons why Samurai Deeper Kyo is so underrated because most people prefer to watch the anime instead of reading the manga. If I had watched the anime first, I probably wouldn't even have given the manga ... a chance, because while anime usually doesn't exceed their respective manga, it is very rare that the anime takes such a different path from the manga like in Samurai Deeper Kyo. I know some people like the anime, but the only reason I'm bashing on it so much is because of how it pales in comparison to the manga and how it truly fails to live up to expectations, especially from people like myself who finished the manga first and was excited to watch its animated adaptation, only to be left disappointed as the anime kind of went way off track already during the first episode.

Now that was a handful, the only point of this was only because I want people to look at Samurai Deeper Kyo and see its true narrative, which is the manga.

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Now that I have got the more subjective views out the way, let's dive into the manga itself. I will keep this as spoiler free as possible.

Story: 8
The story of Samurai Deeper Kyo starts out simple but becomes rather complex later on. Every character has his or her own goals, and it takes a while for all of them to be explained, some even change throughout the series which may keep things complicated. I found myself backtracking a few times when I had forgotten a few details or felt confused. Besides from that, the story itself is rather enjoyable and becomes surprisingly convincing once you get into it. There also tends to be a lot of hints at certain things that remains unexplained for some time, or not even explained at all when you realize that they do not make much sense.

Art: 10
The quality of the manga is truly outstanding and stayed consistent throughout the whole series, which is a good thing because it was a 10 from start to finish. There is so much attention to details which is baffling considering the low amount of time and deadlines that the likes of Kamijyo has.

Characters: 10
There are a lot of characters in Samurai Deeper Kyo, and many of them are very fleshed out with their own backstories which explains why they act like they do and how they ended up where they are. Even smaller side characters had their own past that explained their relations with other characters and whatnot. It really made you care about the characters, even the villains when you understood the context of their behavior which showed that no character was 100% evil nor 100% good.

The characters's backstories is not the only thing that makes them feel unique. While some characters and personalities may fall under stereotypes, such as the constantly worrying girl who acts tough outside the dangerous situations. It is forgivable however, since there are not two characters who share the exact same traits. For example, there are two smaller side characters who look and act identically to one another, but underneath their "masks" they have very different appearances, one being really cute and the other one looking very manly. Another character acts like an animal while unconscious, and it is the small charms like that that help create such a diverse cast of characters.

They also look very different and the age between them varies a lot too whether they are middle aged men or small boys.

Enjoyment: 9
The overall enjoyment of reading Samurai Deeper Kyo was high. It had humor, action, tension, sadness and a lot of suspense which made you want to read more. The fact that it looked amazing while doing all that, helps a lot. Again, small tidbits may cause confusion for some readers who like to look into details. While they don't really affect the plot at all, they can still leave you wondering why someone said a certain thing only to say something completely different later on, such as when they talk about Kyo's "full power" during battles for example.

While some fights may seem dragged on for quite a while, they are often really filled with action during the entirety of the fight, and since many characters fight differently, much variance is provided.

As a whole, I had a blast reading Samurai Deeper Kyo and it is truly one of the best yet underrated mangas I have ever read. That I am sure of after the emptiness I felt when finishing the series. The bonus chapter that plays out after the whole thing just adds to the feels.




Now, if only Studio Madhouse would just make a reboot of the anime...

my ideas may feel out of place but bear with me


I'll get to the point, the author tried to copy naruto(ninjas) with samurais, the only difference was that the mc was a little different as he didn't talk much, but the side characters did the talk for him such as he did this and that act for this reason ...

Each fight was in the following loop
- mc or one of his friends meet a really tough opponent
- they got beaten up badly
- a flashback is brought in were our fighter need to protect the mc and his friends
- new power unlocked : ... power of friendship
- the villain is beaten up
- the villain needs to protect as well, a fight follows up
- then the fight end, and the mc or someone
doesn't kill the villain because of some weird reason

No one of the mc and his friends dies, even tough they are full of injuries they keep fighting and never once they got killed, they always come out as winners

The fmc was useless, never fought but kept being a burden, and screaming the name of the mc when he's losing or that she believes he will come and save her

The story was messed up,too many plotholes and contradictions for many of the secrets revealed later on the story

I'll give some examples (spoilers)
After hearing the name "sakuya", the mc wake up completely and take over the body, but in the end we know that there's barely any relationship between the two, nothing major and crucial to give him the urgency to wake up

The second mc and some of the mc friends kept telling yuya(fmc) that the mc made every girl he knew unhappy, but never once we saw why, neither it seems likely

We never know how the second mc took the mc body, nor how the latter soul ended up in the same body as the former, and what make it even funny is that after regaining his body, the mc is forced out by the second mc from his body, while the mc can't do the same even though he is the main host

At first , the narrative  was that the mc was always in jail when he way young by his clan, but later for some reason he end up in a remote place killing one of the villains and  foiling the villain and his clan ambitions ...

I can keep going on and on with the contradictions and loopholes,  that it makes me regrets having read this manga