VERTICAL COMICS · Graphic novel
Magnificent Bastard Vol. 5
The Wildest Samurai Who Ever Lived Tetsuo Hara 's masterful follow-up to the generation-defining Fist of the North Star a rollicking samurai epic inspired by a real-life legend.All's Fair in Love and WarAfter his duel with Kotaro of the Fuma, Keiji finds himself caught between two women one a childhood friend who has harbored feelings for him all her life, the other the unattainable object of his illicit affection. Will the unfettered life of the kabukimono finally bring Keiji to a tragic end on the point of his best friend 's blade? Or will he live to join the siege of Sado and return to the battlefield, the only place he can fully unleash his outlandish ways? Love or war in the end, which hold the greater peril...?
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Orders close Sun 1 Nov. It's in stores 07/01/2027 and lands with us around Tue 5 Jan.
Weekly box: ships Fri 8 Jan, reaching you about 12–18 Jan.
Monthly box: each month's comics ship together once the last comic is ready, from Fri 8 Jan at the earliest.
- RRP
- A$55.00 incl. GST (US cover price US$0.00)
- Release
- 07/01/2027
- Locks
- Sun 01/11/2026, 5:00 pm AEDT
- Writer
- Keiichiro Ryu; Mio Aso
- Artist
- Tetsuo Hara
- ISBN
- 9781647295233