Blade of the Immortal Volume 18: The Sparrow Net

While not the best arc in this series, it's still amazing. I end up reading these from start to finish without being able to tear myself away. This is a great series. This is no different and showcases two very interesting characters, Doa and Isaku. An excellent character driven manga here.

Best volume in a while. The last volume felt more like filler with such a focus on the Manji experiment. This volume is longer and has a bit of everything with something for everyone. There is a focus on Rin and Doa with some of her and Isaku's backstory. The artwork is excellent as always and has more diverse locales now that the action has moved out of the focus on the dungeon scenes of the previous volume. As the series as progressed Samura characters have become more differentiated, in some of the early volumes characters would be drawn similar enough to make it difficult of tell them apart. This was especially true in the woman who tended to have similar features. The volume is also a longer read than some of the others which was a nice change as some of the previous volumes could be almost entirely focused on long fight sequence. Which were very well drawn and composed but were very fast reads.