Lady Snowblood

Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura’s classic samurai-revenge saga, originally serialized in the 1970s, was collected and republished in German by Carlsen Comics beginning in 2006. This three-issue series follows a woman born and raised for the sole purpose of vengeance, her life a weapon forged by tragedy. Koike’s unflinching script and Kamimura’s elegant, brutal artwork define the seminal work that would influence generations of manga and cinema. It stands as a landmark of the gekiga style, a mature, literary approach to comics that elevated the medium.