Azumi: A Ronin and his all male group of trainee assassins adopt a young female orphan named Azumi. After a lengthy period of training, she and the group embark on their mission to rid the land of warring Shoguns. As their mission progresses and their number dwindle, Azumi begins to doubt the motives of her leader who is willing to sacrifice any one of their number in order to meet his single-minded objective.

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Azumi 2: Death or Love: It’s been some time since Azumi and Nagara finished their grueling training as lethal young assassins in the service of the shogun, a training that finished with the ruthless final test – to kill their longtime training partner (in Azumi’s case, Nachi, who could have been her first love), or perish themselves. The bitter memory of this cruel moment still haunts Azumi, but then, so do the hordes of brutal killers who pursue her and Nagari, now hunters and the hunted at the same time. A civil war is brewing, and the pair’s mission is to stave it off by assassinating those who would wish to see it occur. Their main target is Masayuki Sanada, heavily protected by a small army of killers, but on the way they encounter a colourful gang of bandits, one of whom, Ginkaku, is a dead ringer for the late, lamented Nachi…

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Blue Spring is a story about high school anarchy in the long, bruised-and-battered tradition of BE-BOP HIGH SCHOOL and FUDOH. This school is surrounded by misleadingly picturesque cherry trees in full bloom, it's the students who set the rules while uncooperative teachers are dangled from windows. In this power structure, the leader is decided by a peculiar game of dare: hanging from the rooftop fence...

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