With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission to avenge and uplift his people through the sword goes horribly and gorily wrong. Though clearly intended as an anti-discrimination broadside, Bloody Stumps Samurai rubbed the Buraku Liberation League the wrong way, leading to copies being confiscated and burned and Hirata temporarily blacklisted.

(Source: Retrofit Comics)

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• Hiroshi Hirata — Story & Art
• Marc Bernabé — Translator (Spanish)
• Ryan Holmberg — Translator (English)
• Luis Pedriza — Translator (Spanish)