Yaiba: Samurai Legend, Vol. 2: Volume 2

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The first full-length adventure from Gosho Aoyama, the legendary creator of Case Closed!

Yaiba Kurogane is an energetic young swordsman who's grown up training to be a samurai in the jungle with his father, Kenjuro. Whenthey returnto Japan, chaos seems to follow wherever Yaiba goes! Destined to be a legendary hero, Yaiba must learn to be a true samurai and save the world!

Yaiba, accompanied by the 400-year-old Musashi Miyamoto, and his friends Sayaka, Kagetora, and Shinnosuke, embarks on a training journey so he can defeat Onimaru. Now a demon, Onimaru has seized control of Japan and turned the parliament building into Onimaru Castle! His sights are set on RaijinkenYaibas Thunder God Swordand hell stop at nothing to take it!

Author Bio

Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1986 with Chotto Mattete (Wait a Minute), which won Shogakukans prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomers Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to Case Closed, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba: Samurai Legend, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyamas manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsne Lupin and Sherlock Holmes, along with the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, as some of his childhood favorites.