Kwaidan

Subject and script: Mauro Boselli
Artwork: Nicola Genzianella
Cover: Enea Riboldi

Kenshin Is a Yakuza killer, one of the most expert and lethal of them all. But in his dreams he reminisces about other existences… Who is Kenshin really? A legendary sixteenth-century samurai? A mysterious painter of geisha portraits, who lived in the eighteenth century? Or a nineteenth-century author of kwaidan, i.e. of ghost stories? All of these "incarnations" of Kenshin were obsessed by a beautiful woman who went by the name of Yumi… a specter, a demoness or a woman warrior belonging to the curse-ridden clan of the Tairas, that became extinct one thousand years ago? When Harlan saves his life during warfare that has broken out between Mafia gangs, and gives him back the ancient sword of the samurai Ishiyama Saemon, the pair get enmeshed in a tumultuous string of horrors and magic, which lead them from a sinister temple infected by spirits to a lost world where the traditions, warriors and monsters of Japan of centuries past still live on…