Lone Wolf and Cub

Ogami Itto was the Shogun's executioner until a rival clan framed him and murdered his wife. Now he walks the roads of Edo Japan as an assassin for hire, pushing his toddler son Daigoro in a wooden cart fitted with hidden blades. The two have chosen the path of vengeance together, a road they call meifumado, the way of demons. Across twenty-eight volumes Koike and Kojima build a slow, patient saga of duels, ambushes, and a father raising a child inside a life of killing. It is brutal and unhurried, and the bond between the silent swordsman and the watchful boy is what carries it past simple bloodshed.