Emerald by Hiroaki Samura

[meganbmoore]

Emerald is a 64 page western oneshot by Hiroaki Samura(Blade of the Immortal.)  It's about a young girl named Sarah, who is trapped into a game with the man who killed her parents where either her parents(and therefore, her) debt will be erased, or she will be forced to work in his brothel, and Jimmy Weed, and outlaw hired by a woman named Rosalie to protect her employer's property.  Anything beyond that is extremely spoilery(except to say that Sarah and Rosalie remind me a good bit of Rin and Hyakurin.)  So instead of further details, I bring you scans of awesomeness.

There is absolutely NOTHING familiar about this:



Or this:


(well...it's a lot more familiar with the full scene...)

Employment interview, western style:







Follow-up interview, western style:





(Manji he is not...though they'd get along...)





I just liked this spread:



A true Western Ending:

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Dude, where can I find this?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

http://dragonvoice. org/dv_emerald. html

Does it not look aweome?

Do you read Blade of the Immortal?(if not, you are so missing out...)

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Of course I do. :D I don't read the monthlies though, just the collected versions. I used to read the monthlies in high school and in college but I stopped. I guess it's just as well though since they're discontinuing that.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'm going to do when i uddenly have to wait a YEAR between fixes...(not that I'm not several months behind as it is)

And good, I was going to be appalled otherwise. (Magatsu is my one true manga love...even if he is rather suicidal)

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I adore Magatsu, although I'm fond of Hyakurin and Giichi too.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I love Hyakurin and Giichi. They need to survive somehow(and maybe make babies...)

I'm actually kinda scared for the book to reach the end as I figure most of them will get offed...

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Ha! I think the two of them should make babies too. I usually don't say that very often because when I do, I get some strange looks but it makes sense!

I am also afraid you are correct. I don't see most of them having a long life expectancy either. Alas!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You can actually kinda see Giichi and Hyakurin having a nice, normal life together somewhere down the road, even though it seems odd for the characters. probably because all either really wants/needs is a family(and aside from maybe Rin, the other is the only living person either one really cares about)

From recent manga events, I want to say it's safe to see ONE of them living through it, but not both(but Samura is just mean enough to still kill them both off)

[chomiji]

Whoa, how cool!

And his Western details aren't bad, either. The back of the hotel, where it's on stilts because of the steepness of the lot, could easily have come from Jerome, Arizona, which we toured a couple of years ago.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks a lot more like the old west than most of the "western" stuff we get here.

But the best part is that the girls very, very convincingly fight(and win) with their brains.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I think I'm going to have to check this out.

Thanks!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

it is excellent. and then if you havent, check out blade of the immortal

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I will.