The Legend of Kamui Vol. 2 - Drawn & Quarterly Takes Shirato Sanpei’s Saga Forward with a Second Volume of the Manga Classic – Broken Frontier

The Legend of Kamui Vol. 2 - Drawn & Quarterly Takes Shirato Sanpei’s Saga Forward with a Second Volume of the Manga Classic – Broken Frontier

Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting with the decades that lay between 1964, when the series first appeared in Japan, and the appearance of a revitalized version for a new audience. Then there was the tale itself, a powerful allegory of class struggles that continue to shape Japanes…