As her name suggests, she is an eight-hundred-year-old nun. She herself possesses the kessen-chu and has passed these blood-worms on to both Manji and Shizuma.
Yaobikuni encounters Rin Asano at the graveyard where Rin's father is buried. After listening to her story, Yaobikuni advises Rin to seek out the toughest, strongest bodyguard of all, Manji. Yaobikuni is of small stature and has spiral tattoos on her face.
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He is the leader of the Itto-ryu and an equal of Manji. This emotionally cold young man has prodigious skill with the sword, and leads the Itto-ryu. He runs Itto-ryu in order to form a dojo dedicated not to form and rules, but to the simple test of superi...
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The sole survivor of an Ittō-ryū massacre at Anotsus hand and heir to her fathers sword school, the "Mutenichi-ryū". She has mediocre swordsmanship skills but an intense desire to avenge the brutal death of her family. To aid in this quest, she hires Manj...
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Manji is the protagonist of the Japanese manga series Blade of the Immortal. In the story, hes known infamously both as the "Hundred Man Killer," for the number of men hes killed by the beginning of the series, and "Mister Twelve Blades" for the number of...
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Second-in-command of the Ittō-ryū. An aged swordsman who nevertheless remains one of the Ittō-ryūs most skilled fighters....
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Master of the Mutenichi-ryū dojo, husband to Asano, Otoke, and father to Asano, Rin.Killed by Kuroi Sabato as one of the victims of the Itto-ryū....
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Asano Rins mother and Asano Kuroses wife. Raped by Anotsu Kagehisas underlings. ...
