I should probably start this with saying that this isnt really for people who dont like excessive gore and nudity because this manga got so weird in some spots like I should also add that this is my first try at writing a review so forgive any quality issues. Theres also some spoilers at parts Ill specify. Im also a little stupid so I might have left some uncovered ones so tread carefully. Okay that aside I should get into the review. This story covers Fujiki Gennosuke and his rivalry with Irako Seigen and how they reached the point that they did in the first chapter. Its one of those stories with the youre probably wondering how I got here where they reveal the ending at the start then explain how they got there. For example you know that Fujiki loses his arm and Irako becomes blind because its in the first chapter so now the reader is finding out how that happened. I should start with the art. Long story short its good. I cant complain about anything really except how I had to see an old guys brains fall out of his face in great detail. Its good but I would have liked it if it wasnt so good. I like how nobody has ridiculous body proportions or ultra smooth skin. People look like theyre supposed to: super buff. You can see the muscles and bones bulging out of everyone even the girls. Ive seen so many manga and anime where the character can blow a football field away in one punch yet they dont have an inch of visible muscle. I wont go as far as to say that theres no fanservice though because I think almost every character is seen naked at least once. Tits are plentiful and so are guys wearing nothing but a cloth over their dick. Its equal fanservice so everyone can enjoy some. Alrighty now that I have the minor part of this review down Ill do the plot. Its pretty okay but imo it really isnt anything special. Ill start with the spoilerfree version. A man named Irako came to a dojo to learn from the master of a powerful technique. After he gets in because of his talent for learning fast he starts a rivalry with the top student there Fujiki and eventually challenges his position. Thats about as far as I can go. Now onto the spoilers one. That was kind of oversimplified so Im sorry if I missed anything important but I think I got the main points. Now the most important part the characters. Ill be honest I dont remember most of them so Ill only do Fujiki Irako and Mie. Fujiki is a puppet of his master to put it simply. No matter what his master said be it to hold down a girl so she could be raped or to save a sword even if it costed his life Fujiki did it. When he was a kid his master Im referring to him as Kogan from now on because I just remembered his name took him in and trained his potential so I guess Fujiki thinks of himself as like a loyal servant. This is pretty important for Mies character. Even though hes a samurai he doesnt hesitate to throw away his sword so hes not a conventional swordsman. Irako is the opposite of Fujiki someone who wasnt influenced by anyone. To Irako this is a revenge story. I still remember his birth scene from the anime because of how horrific it was. He was born to a prostitute so he was in the lowest class. He grew up watching the oppression of samurai so he made his mind to end what he saw as a corrupt hierarchy. Instead of being a puppet to his master Irako would suck all of the teachers lessons out then kill him like how you throw a water bottle away once youre done drinking from it. I used water bottle because some people reuse them and I guess that helps the analogy. If his master ordered him to do something ridiculous Irako would refuse or not do it as shown by when Kogan ordered him to rape Mie and he reasoned that Mie would kill herself if he did. Irako is also uses his looks seducing people to get what he needs and that clearly violates the samurai code because hes being sneaky rather than upfront. Thats a similarity that both Fujiki and Irako hold. They both arent afraid to throw away their samurai title. Mie is probably the most important character Ill cover as she made a very questionable decision at the end and because of that Ill have to put like this entire thing into spoilers sadly. Wow that took a while to explain and I had to read the final chapter like 5 times to understand what was happening. I personally dislike these manga that dont tell you the story at face value because I dont like thinking. I watch anime and read manga so I dont have to think hard. Sure some people do like thinking and if youre one of those people know that this manga is for you because you get what looks like an open ending at first but its actually a proper conclusion if you look at it from another angle aka read it 5 times. I may have painted this manga in a good light by writing all of these positives but actually I didnt think it was that amazing. At one point it just seemed like there were meaningless attempts to make me disgusted like how they put fallen parts of the body into their mouth or just the amount of gore in general. It was good at first but if you have 84 chapters of straight tits and guts you start to get a little tired of it. I should add this because omitting it is like ignoring a huge chunk of the story and I skipped it earlier when talking about the plot but there is this little side story in the second half of the manga that covers this muscle chick named Chika and how she grows a dick when shes turned on. Its already weird but get this: this disgusting toad guy sees himself and Chika being together because they both have this weird deformity. This dude looks like a toad and half the time hes drawn as one. Because of this infatuation toad kills all of Chikas suitors and Chika never gets a good ending because shes summoned to Tadanagas chambers and gets beaten and probably raped. I have no clue what that story had to do with Fujiki and Irako lmao. All I remember is that the toad guy was also spying on Fujiki and Irakos match. I dont know if this should be in spoilers or not because its so insignificant. All it really did is try to pull in the male muscle fetishists and it also further proved Tadanagas brutality but that was already proven well so it was kind of pointless imo. Well it appears that I have reached the end of this review because Ive run out of things to talk about. If I missed anything whoops.