![]() ![]() The main themes of Full Metal Daemon Muramasa are the natures of evil, justice and vengeance all pointing down to the self-destructive human behavior. Muramasa is a masterpiece, and it sends shivers down my spine just imagining what Narahara Ittetsu, a certified master of ancient Japanese martial arts and by no means a professional writer, had to go through to bring this grand work to life. From the authentic-sounding ancient Japanese prose, to a meticulously constructed alternate history of early 20th century and carefully researched martial arts of real samurai you simply can’t make a story so vast and this profound unless you sacrifice majority of your life researching and contemplating the subject matter. ![]() ![]() I felt it with Tolstoy’s “War & Peace”, got a glimpse of it in Dostoevsky’s “Crime & Punishment” and got completely overwhelmed by it in Full Metal Daemon Muramasa. Sometimes there are works of fiction where you feel that the author has honed his skills for his entire life just to bring that story to reality. ![]()
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