Lady Snowblood is a woman born with a singular purpose, revenge - revenge for the death of her father at the hands of greedy criminals; and revenge for the life of her mother, who birthed her in a prison to continue this demon's path of death. And sometimes this path is odd, sometimes sexy, often painful and always violent. By means of a world's worth of skills, Lady Snowblood ...(展开全部)

As samurai were losing their bearings in a time of change, Yuki brought back the demonic spirit of vengeance. And the good part about this last volume of "Lady Snowblood" is that she saved her most hated targets for last. Yet, in the midst of a maelstrom of sex and violence, the reader will still catch a few glimpses of warmth and human compassion. That's because Kazuo Koike, t...(展开全部)

简介：平行时空间的相互偎问，无论是真是假，都是一次重要的提醒，后来才发现，自己是改变命运的关键，世界终将破灭，也许我的离开才是最好的结局。 ——Retribution

简介：平行时空间的相互偎问，无论是真是假，都是一次重要的提醒，后来才发现，自己是改变命运的关键，世界终将破灭，也许我的离开才是最好的结局。 ——Retribution

The path of revenge can have many twisted turns, and Lady Snowblood's is no exception. Born in a prison, a product of her mother's grudge, Yuki is a child of hell. What will she do for revenge? Pose as a nun? Become another woman's lover? Possibly. In this volume, we learn about Yuki's training and youth, see her woo some allies, and embark on the first steps of her angry path....(展开全部)

Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rap...(展开全部)

Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rap...(展开全部)

J.R.R. Tolkien is famous for his literary creation, exemplified in "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". He also produced a vast amount of further material that expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-Earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, ...(展开全部)

J.R.R. Tolkien is famous for his literary creation, exemplified in "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". He also produced a vast amount of further material that expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-Earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, ...(展开全部)

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern. Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays tem...(展开全部)