Blade of the Immortal Crack Theory Post

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sesame_seed's description of the manga: is here. Also includes scans from Dark Horse's translation for the first five volumes. I'd call it violent samurai horror with philosophical overtones, sort of like if you crossed Lone Wolf and Cub with Tenjou Tenge minus the big-breasted fanservice.

...I say this now, but six years ago Blade of the Immortal was the first manga I ever read. So it's got, like, a special place in my heart even if I can never remember any of the names. The characters in this series live through the art and dialogue, they're real and not plastic.

They're also crazy. Poll!

[Poll #580349]
Okay, and here's my crack theory. We know that

1. Manji is immortal because he's stuffed full of flesh-reconstructing worms
They'd be so much more gross if this manga was in color. *shivers*
2. The worms can't re-contruct injuries from before they entered the body
Otherwise Manji would still be able to use his right eye.
3. Manji gets shot/stabbed in the head a lot
Four times and counting!
4. Being stabbed in the head affects his cognitive abilities
In the fight against Maki he mentions that his vision's blurry.

Wouldn't it be sort of neat if, when the worms are re-constructing bits of Manji's exploded brains, they got it wrong sometimes? Like, if the parts of him from before he had the worms put in got...misplaced, or something? He remembers his sister and the hunded guys he offed, but what about the rest? What if it was missing or wrong?

I mean. Every time Manji gets destroyed, a little bit less of him is him and a little bit more is the worms filling in for him. Remember that part with the poison that only affected the worms, way back at the beginning of the series? All the old wounds re-opening? Manji survived then, but he totally wouldn't now -- he'd be, like, a spleen attached to a small piece of spine with a skull on top.