A very short tragedy manga about a Samurais plea and vengeance. The manga was released in 1960 and it uses the feudal era at its setting to essentially testify an outcasts life and his resentment towards the classes that discriminate him. What makes the main character an outcast is his status as the son of Buraku a real class of people that existed in Japan. Buraku describes a large minority group in Japan historically descendants of outcast communities of the feudal era which mainly comprised those with occupations considered tainted with death or ritual impurity such as executioners undertakers or tanners and traditionally lived in their own secluded hamlets and ghettos. The translator also left this note about the controversial publishing of the manga: Chidaruma Kenpou: Onorera ni Tsugu is a very controversial manga that was published in the 60s and was soon removed from shelves after being protested against by Buraku groups for its arguably negative portrayal of a Buraku main character. In recent times it was restored and republished in this new version but derogatory statements connected to Buraku and their history have still been blanked out. These missing bits have been restored as much as possible in this English translation. Storywise 8/10 The story stars Gennosuke the son of Buraku parents who died. He makes his way through a Dojo and is portrayed as being very persistant and recklessly relentless. His ultimate goal is to plea for the law of the land to be changed in order to make Buraku a protected class. This plan gets discovered and people realize hes a Buraku himself. This doesnt sit well among Dojo members and causes a cascade of events that end up with him carrying out an ultimate plan of vengeance. The story itself has nice minor twists but its also fairly predictable and extremely short even though it spans over more than a decade within the story. Theres nothing particularly wrong with the story it just wasnt exceptional and life during the timeskip should have had more story development. The timeskip almost felt practically useless given how few changes were portrayed after it passed. The ending is also a very nice twist thats a bit poetic. Hes ended by someone of his caste eliminating each other in the end which only benefited the bad guys in the story. Characterwise 10/10 Gennosuke is very impulsive and intense. You see the emotions he goes through particularly well you can feel that hes very troubled by what hes living. Fits of violent rage and fits of crying rage constantly on display with no room given to normal scenes. There are basically 2 other important characters which make up his immediate circle with nice twists to both of them. Artwise 7/10 Its clearly very old but its not bad by any means. Its simply underwhelming compared to newer art styles it lacks detail and has this grainy texture. During fights it can have some nice strokes that give the impression of speed/swinging 2nd pannel but it can be bland or messy 3rd pannel. Have a look 3 different pages: 220https://i.ur.com/1TyqHzO.png 220https://i.ur.com/P09oC0P.png 220https://i.ur.com/CH357bg.png Overall the manga is short and sweet. Enjoyable. It was most definitely an inspiration for Shigurui https://anilist.co/manga/33868/Shigurui Gennosuke...Gonzaemon...crippleness...challenge to inherit Dojo...Irako son of filth...a distaste of the caste system...the revegeance plot...slay the tiger...even the sword style at some point... 220https://i.ur.com/ewZxZl0.png