Blade of the Immortal

Blade of the Immortal
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Manji
無限の住人 (Mugen no Jūnin)
Genre	Dark fantasy[1] Historical fantasy[2] Martial arts[3]
Manga
Written by	Hiroaki Samura
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Dark Horse Comics
Imprint	Afternoon KC
Magazine	Monthly Afternoon
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	June 25, 1993 – December 25, 2012
Volumes	30 (List of volumes)
Further information Anime television series Directed by Kōichi Mashimo Produced by Katsushi Morishita Noboru Yamada Takuya Matsushita Tetsuya Kinoshita Written by Hiroyuki Kawasaki Music by Kow Otani Studio Bee Train Licensed by NA: Media Blasters UK: MVM Entertainment Original network AT-X Original run July 13, 2008 – December 28, 2008 Episodes 13 (List of episodes) Novel Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon Written by Junichi Ohsako Illustrated by Hiroaki Samura Published by Kodansha English publisher NA: Dark Horse Books Published July 18, 2008 Live-action film Blade of the Immortal (2017) Manga Blade of the Immortal – Bakumatsu Arc Written by Kenji Takigawa Hiroaki Samura (collaboration) Illustrated by Ryū Suenobu Published by Kodansha Imprint Afternoon KC Magazine Monthly Afternoon Demographic Seinen Original run May 25, 2019 – May 24, 2024 Volumes 9 Original net animation Directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki Produced by Hiroyuki Aoi Kazuhiro Asou Morio Kitaoka Yasuo Tsubakimoto Written by Makoto Fukami Music by Eiko Ishibashi Studio Liden Films Licensed by Amazon Prime Video (streaming) Sentai Filmworks (home video) Released October 10, 2019 – March 25, 2020 Runtime 24 minutes Episodes 24 (List of episodes) Anime and manga portal

Blade of the Immortal (Japanese: 無限の住人, Hepburn: Mugen no Jūnin, lit. 'The Inhabitant of Infinity') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from June 1993 to December 2012, with its chapters collected in 30 tankōbon volumes. The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the cursed samurai Manji, who has to kill 1,000 evil men in order to regain his mortality.

A 2008 anime television series adaptation was produced by Bee Train. Also in 2008, the novel Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon was released by Kodansha. A live action film adaptation of the same name was released in April 2017. A second anime adaptation by Liden Films was broadcast from October 2019 to March 2020. In North America, the manga has been published by Dark Horse Comics. The first anime series was licensed by Media Blasters. The second anime series is licensed by Amazon Prime Video.

By May 2019, the manga had over 7.5 million copies in circulation. In 1997, Blade of the Immortal received the Excellence Award at the first Japan Media Arts Festival.