Shigurui
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Key facts
- Animanga/Header.image
- Shigurui manga.jpg
- Animanga/Header.caption
- First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Gennosuke Fujiki
- Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
- シグルイ
- Animanga/Header.genre
- Jidaigeki
- Animanga/Print.type
- manga
- Animanga/Print.author
- Takayuki Yamaguchi
- Animanga/Print.publisher
- Akita Shoten
- Animanga/Print.first
- August 2003
- Animanga/Print.last
- September 2010
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 15
- Animanga/Print.volume_list
- List of Shigurui chapters
- Animanga/Video.type
- tv series
- Animanga/Video.title
- Shigurui: Death Frenzy
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Seishi Minakami
- Animanga/Video.music
- Kiyoshi Yoshida
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Madhouse
- Animanga/Video.network
- Wowow
- Animanga/Video.first
- July 19, 2007
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- シグルイ
- number of parts of this work
- 15
- publication date
- 2003-06-19
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takayuki Yamaguchi. It was first serialized in Akita Shoten's seinen manga magazine Champion Red from 2003 to 2006, and later in Champion Red Ichigo from 2007 to 2010; its chapters were collected in fifteen tankōbon volumes. It is based on the first chapter of the novel Suruga-jō Gozen Jiai by Norio Nanjō. An anime television adaptation, aired on Wowow from July to October 2007. The series was directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, written by Seishi Minakami, and produced by Madhouse.
The anime was licensed in North America by Funimation under the fully translated title Shigurui: Death Frenzy. The licensing was announced in May 2008 and the full series was released in March 2009, on Blu-ray and DVD. The manga and anime are both known for their graphic violence and sexual content.