Au coeur de la forêt, le jeune sabreur Jinta s'engage dans un duel à mort avec un démon qui menace la prêtresse de Kadono. Profitant de l'altercation, une seconde créature capable de voir le futur s'introduit dans le village. Son but : rencontrer Suzune, la petite soeur de Jinta... Tout oppose humains et démons. Pourtant, ils finiront tous emportés par le même destin tragique.
Jinta's path is set: in one hundred and seventy years, he will face the Demon God and attempt to prevent a catastrophe. He has changed his name to Jinya and left his adopted home behind. It is the Bakumatsu period, and the city of Edo is bristling with unease. As a demon hunter in the city, Jinya encounters a warrior in search of his missing brother and finds demons hiding among the people. Among these meetings and partings, he seeks a reason to wield his blade.
After the two demons attacked the village, the people of Kadono are sucked into the turbulent tides of fate. A vengeful Jinta waits for a time in the future when prophecy tells that the demon god will appear. He spends a decade wandering with his sword, and now, in the city of Edo, a rumor follows him: A yasha guardian has been hunting demons.
In this era-spanning fantasy epic of humans and demons, a warrior in feudal Japan must hunt a demon through time--a tale soon to be an anime! Don't miss the original light novels, also from Seven Seas! For generations, a shrine has stood in the mountain village of Kadono, and for each generation the shrine has had an Itsukihime—its shrine maiden—and the maiden has had her guardian. During the Edo period, a young man named Jinta protects the town and the Itsukihime. When he confronts a strange demon in the nearby forest, it tells him that in the distant future a Demon God will threaten all people, everywhere, and it claims that the the Demon God's rise to power springs from this very time and place, in the village of Kadono. So begins the centuries-spanning journey of a man tainted by demons, hunting through time to seek justice for what he's lost, and to find a reason to keep on fighting.
Edo period, Japan. A young warrior, Jinta, has dedicated his life to the protection of a priestess in a remote mountain village. When demons appear and threaten the shrine, Jinta is tasked with entering the forest to hunt them down. But the mysteries he uncovers there change his fate forever, and send him on a journey traversing space and time. Jinta's dark destiny will carry him through hundreds of years of history, as he struggles to answer a single question: why does he wield the sword?
Vers la fin de l'ère Edo, il y a près de deux siècles, un petit village isolé au coeur de la montagne est la cible régulière d'attaques de démons. Les habitants laissent à Jinta, un sabreur accompagné de son étrange petite soeur, le soin de défendre la prêtresse de leur sanctuaire. Un jour, alors que le jeune guerrier est parti dans la forêt pour traquer un monstre, il se retrouve face à un adversaire qui lui parle d'un lointain futur... Pour le chasseur de démons en quête de réponses, cette rencontre marque le début d'une errance à travers les âges.
It's 1872, year five of the Meiji era, and the world is rapidly changing, long leaving the samurai behind--but some things aren't content to remain a memory of the past. Now in Kyoto with his daughter Nomari, Jinya runs a soba restaurant by day and patrols the streets at night hunting demons, which have strangely been increasing in number. As Jinya investigates the cause, it seems someone known as Magatsume is secretly responsible, but who could they be? And what do they want?
Jinya s'est établi dans la cité d'Edo en tant que chasseur de démons. Il entend bientôt parler d'une rumeur étrange concernant une série de meurtres. Alors qu'il enquête sur les lieux du dernier crime supposé, il se fait attaquer par un démon capable de se rendre invisible... Derrière ces événements se cache un drame bouleversant...
Edo, the winter of 1856. The city is abuzz over a liquor known as Snow's Memory. The craze sparks an incident, and demon hunter Jinya finds himself embroiled in intoxicating affairs. Amid the intrigue and rumor, he uncovers signs that point to his long-lost younger sister. But does Jinya want to find her, when their future looms and their past is inescapable?
