Buso Renkin, Vol. 1: New Life

Arrived in new condition. It's a series I already read, so my collector's side is happy with the condition.

Buso Renkin. A series with characters weapons and attacks similar to that of Rurouni Kenshin. Written and created by the same person, Nobuhiro Watsuki. I thoroughly enjoyed the read. However it is not the same as kenshin, it should belong in its own category, however it is most definitely for action fans

I enjoyed this book in paperback, but I would like this available on Comixology

It was drawn in details, it attracted most of Watsuki fans, for its reminder of Rurouni Kenshin in some themes.

From the creator who brought you Rurouni Kenshin and Gun Blaze West, comes yet another great masterpiece by Nobuhiro Watsuki. Buso Renkin is another great action/adventure graphic novel from one of the best in the business. The story is about a young high school student named Kazuki Muto. After saving a young girl named Tokiko and sacrificing his own life, Tokiko plants a device called a Buso Renkin in place of his heart. Now with more enemies popping up all over Japan Kazuki must help defend his new life and his friends. I loved this series and I believe it is the greatest thing that Nobuhiro Watsuki created. The story line is deep and the action is unbelievable! But what really makes this a greater series than Rurouni Kenshin, is that it has more comedy. It will make you giggle under your breath and make you smile and shake your head. I recommend this series to any or all manga fans who are looking for the newest and greatest series! Buso Renkin Volume 1 receives 5 stars out of 5. My name is Amone! Adios!

Buso Renkin is a manga, and later anime, from the creator of the Rurouni Kenshin series, Nobuhiro Watsuki. The story is a simple one. The alchemy that was abandoned in Europe centuries ago, the stuff of Nicholas Flammel and the search for immortality, secretly did produce results. There were two types of alchemical discoveries, the homunculus and the Buso Renkin. The homunculus is a plant and animal hybrid type of organism that takes control of a victim and eventually kills them, coming to life in their brain and nervous system, thus taking over their bodies. The Buso Renkin, on the other hand, is a weapon used to defeat such creatures. The homunculus eats different things, but mostly eats people, and so you can see where this is going. To say that the above premise has some elements in common with modern vampire myths would be an understatement. All you need to do is replace "homunculus" with "vampire" and "blood" with "entire body", and you have the same concept. And then you have the vampire hunters.... Anyways, our story begins when our young hero, Kazuki, stumbles across a girl about to be eaten by a monster, and tries to save her, getting brutally killed for his trouble. Unbeknownst to Kazuki, and the monster for that matter, the girl was an "alchemic warrior", a holder of a Buso Renkin. She was luring the monster out so she could kill it and save the local human populace from being eaten. The girl, feeling both sorry and touched by Kazuki's unnecessary, but noble, death, brings him back to life with a Buso Renkin. Upon discovering what happened to him, Kazuki vows to join the girl, named Tokiko, in battling the monsters of his city. Buso Renkin is a very different comic than Rurouni Kenshin. While Kenshin had it's share of fantastical stories, to be sure, it was grounded in a thoroughly non-fantasy world. Everything was shonen, or kick-ass and manly man, but it was still within the bounds of a non-fantastical setting. This is a thoroughly magical, fantastical story. The only part I didn't like was that the tale has none of the moral components that Watsuki put in the Kenshin stories. Instead, it was a typical fantasy story, at least until the second volume which I am currently reading, but this is a review of the first volume so that is irrelevant for now. All in all, I enjoy the second volume more than this first volume being here reviewed, but it was still a fun story, though not as good, in my opinion, as Rurouni Kenshin.

I am a big fan of Rurouni Kenshin; I have read all the 28 volumes. When I heard that Watsuki had another series I was really excited. Kenshin was Watsuki's first series; the path of a Manga-ka can be difficult. Over the years Watsuki has perfected his drawing style and story telling skills. The result is Buso Renkin. Don't get me wrong though, Kenshin is a great series. Buso Renkin shows great promise and I am looking forward to this story. One of the great things that Watsuki does is by having a couple of pages in the manga of how he creates characters, what is going on in his life, and what fans are saying. It makes reading the manga a more personal experience. I am diffidently looking forward to the anime that will be premiering this fall in Japan (which I'm sure will come out in the states if this manga sells well)!

Just finished reading it for the first time and am really happy with it. I have seen the first episode of the anime (sub) so the starting events in chapter one weren't a complete surprise but I did like it. The rest of the book was good: action, a bit of humor to break it up and so far I like the side characters. I try not to give spoilers and the description of the volume is on the page and in some of the reviews here, so I'll just say that based on the first volume I'd have to recommend it for reading. I haven't read any of the author's other works although 'Rurouni Kenshin' is on my library list in a week or to. Reading this has made me more interested in it than I was from just hearing it was a classic :-)