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Sengoku Youko

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Warring States Youko
Japanese: 戦国妖狐
English: Sengoku Youko
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 17
Chapters: 100
Status: Finished
Published: Dec 28, 2007 to May 20, 2016
Genres: Action Action, Adventure Adventure, Fantasy Fantasy
Themes: Historical Historical, Mythology Mythology
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Blade Online
Authors: Mizukami, Satoshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.141 (scored by 57435,743 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5402
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #996
Members: 20,612
Favorites: 371

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Sep 22, 2019
Mixed Feelings
Sengoku Youko is a manga that I might never really understand the appeal of to most fans.

The plot is actually split up into two different parts, with the first half focusing on the journey of these two demon siblings and this human samurai that has no talent and they fight an evil organization, but one of the siblings ends up getting super overpowered, and the second half focusing on an already overpowered villain turned hero as he fights to gain the power to defeat the one sibling in the first half. It's pretty standard shounen at this point, with the majority of the plot ...
Mar 29, 2024
Mixed Feelings
THE MEH

The premise of Sengoku Youko is both generic for a fighting shounen and familiar coming from its author, who was working on Hoshi no Samidare at the same time. Two siblings (not really in here) defeating both bad humans and demons and telling them to do better, out of love for either one or both species.

The initial plot structure is one of the same for a fighting shounen as well, the main group gets formed while defeating minor enemies, antagonist organization and big bads appear, more and more powerful bads appear later on, the good guys get stronger by getting more and more power ...
Mar 27, 2024
Mixed Feelings
I love Mizukami Satoshi, but this does not really mantain the same consistency of quality as his other acclaimed works (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammar and Spirit Circle). Still, Sengoku Youko clearly is a highly ambitious work that experiments greatly with the Shonen formula and adds very intriguing subversions to its many tropes. If Biscuit Hammar served up subversion of modern Shonen storytelling and tropes, Sengoku Youko plays as a serious attempt to integrate these subversions into the tradition of Shonen storytelling.

I think firstly, unlike Spirit Circle, or even World End Solte, this manga starts quite slow and really takes its time to get ...