Saturday, December 31, 2011

Blade of the Immortal: Volume 16: Shortcut

by Hiroaki Samura, 192 pages

Hyakurin gets a pink slip out of the blue and Rin deals with unexpected houseguests while our missing Manji finds the authorities have finally decided to try and see what makes him tick long after normal men's clocks have stopped.

Scalpels and microscopes are only the beginning for poor Manji, who's keeping a remarkably *meh, shrug* attitude about things until he can figure a way out for him and his as-yet-mortal co-guinea pig. Pain's nothing new to him, after all. But he does worry about his new comrade. And about what his cold, calculating captor plans to do with whatever knowledge his desperate men of science discover.

I wondered how long it would take somebody with some clout to catch wind of Manji's condition and start poking him with sharp pointy instruments. I think Kagimura just didn't believe it till he saw it with his own eyes. But now that he has, life is just going to get more complicated for everyone.

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