Monday, 18 November 2019

Promesas Rotas by Hiroshi Hirata (3.8🌟)

Title in English is Broken Promises. Seinen, manga. This is a short story collection on samurai and warrior stories. Hirata's style is always crude, sometimes violent and gross. The mangaka  transports the reader to the old Japan when the Clans and the Lords ruled, controlling economic and political affairs as well as people's lives. The titled in this volume are (my own translations):

1. Promesas Rotas, Broken promises: deals with the consequences of broken promises.
2. La Muerte del Doble, The death of the lookalike: an arrogant man is always saved by his twin brother until the brother decides not to help him anymore).
3. El Problema de la Tropa de Transporte, The problem of the transport team: samurai have to lead a convoy weapons and ammunition and deliver the cargo to their Lord who is about to start a war.

4. Corte con el filo hacia abajo (Gesta Marcial - Renuncia al estipendio), Cut with a sharp end... a warrior develops a technique to cut objects and kill people with out touching them.
5. Cut with the sharp end ... (original) - another story using the same them as the above story.
6. The Impotent - a wounded warrior seeks revenge
7. Guerrero Indomable, The Indomitable Warrior -  a Lord struggles to control one of his samurai.t
8. El Guerrero Demoniaco, The Demonic Warrior - a Lord wants to take possession of some lands but finds opposition with the native communities.

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