Monthly Afternoon
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 mortality. The manga was originally published in Kodansha's "Monthly Afternoon" from June 1993 to December 2012 and compiled into thirty "tankōbon" volumes.