Blade of the Immortal
"Blade of the Immortal", written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura, began in Kodansha's "seinen" manga magazine "Monthly Afternoon" on June 25, 1993, and finished on December 25, 2012. Kodansha collected its 219 chapters into thirty "tankōbon" volumes, released from September 19, 1994 to February 22, 2013.