Kamui (1964 manga)
Plot. Kamui is a ninja from the Edo period who has decided to leave his clan. After doing so he is pursued relentlessly by the members of his former clan; who consider him to be a traitor and therefore wish to kill him. Kamui then wanders around Japan to escape from them by using his intelligence and great abilities to survive. In the course of the series Kamui begins to suffer from paranoia because of his status as a persecuted man. Kamui then started to believe that everybody wished to murder him and became distrusting of everyone  he came across. Publication. The original series, , ran from December 1964 to July 1971 in the monthly gekiga magazine "Garo". The sequel titled ran from 1982 to 2000 in "Big Comic". In 1987, two volumes of the second series became one of the first manga titles to be published in the United States (by Eclipse Comics and Viz Comics), as "The Legend of Kamui". The Viz edition featured lettering and retouching by "Usagi Yojimbo" creator Stan Sakai. Adaptations. The manga was adapted into an anime series "The Chronicles of Kamui the Ninja" (1969) and a live-action film "Kamui Gaiden