is a Japanese manga artist, known for ''

Blade of the Immortal is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura. The series is set in Japan during the mid- Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the cursed samurai Manji, who has to kill 1,000 evil men in order to regain his morta ...

'', as well as several other short works. He has also done various illustrations for magazines and ero guro work.

Education

Samura says that he always wanted to be a manga artist. However, unlike most manga artists, he attended art school for a time and has a

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education. He disliked

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and prefers to work in black and white. He says that he disliked oil painting from the start because of the smell of the paint and employed someone to help himself cheat to get through the course, which he is quite open about in interviews.Hiroaki Samura Interview for Quick Japan 38 (August 2001)
/ref> He never completed the course because he got picked up by ''

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'' before he graduated to do ''

''.

Works

Manga

* (1993 – 2012; serialized in ''

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'') * (2002; published by ''Afternoon KC'') ** (2000; published in ''Afternoon Season Special Edition'') ** (2000; published in ''Afternoon Season Special Edition'') * (2005 – 2007; serialized in ''Manga Erotics F'') * (2009; published by ''Afternoon KC'') ** (2004; published in ''Monthly Afternoon'') ** (2009; published in ''Monthly Afternoon'') ** (2005 – 2006; serialized in ''QuickJapan'') ** (2006; published in ''Monthly Afternoon'') ** (2008; published in ''

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'') ** (2006; published in '' Kindai Mahjong Original'') ** (2003; dōjinshi) * (2008 – 2011; serialized in ''

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'') * (2010 – ongoing; serialized in ''Rakuen Le Paradis'') * (2011 – ongoing; serialized in ''Nemesis'') *, ''Harukaze no Snegurochka'' (2013 — 2014; serialized in ''Manga Erotics F''; 18th

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Excellence Award) * (July 25, 2014 — ongoing; serialized in ''Monthly Afternoon')

Dōjinshi

Illustrations

*, an illustration series of adult themed pencil drawings (extreme violence and sexual material). The illustrations were published from 1998 to 2006. The series jumped from one publication to the next and featured in both erotic and pornographic '

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'' such as "Tokyo H" and " Manga Erotics F", youth and art magazines such as "QuickJapan" and "Comickers", before finally being collected in an artbook. *Cover art for the Japanese version of '' Blood Will Tell'', a video game based on Osamu Tezuka's '' Dororo''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Samura, Hiroaki 1970 births Manga artists from Chiba Prefecture Japanese graphic novelists Living people