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If you want to know how the LWAC series ended read this.


I recently brought the last book of the series. Basically Lone Wolf is camped outside the capitol city and the remanents of the Yagyu army come to face him, Lone wolf fights them but is slowly loosing, his sword is cut in half but he bravely fights on, however he is dealt a severe wound. After Lone wolf manages to kill the last of the Yagyu troops he takes shelter in a abandoned hut, Diagro trys to help Lone Wolfs wound, Lone Wolf gives a mooving speech to Diagro about how he will allways be his father. Then Retsudo appears. Lone wolf even with the blade of his sword broke in half goes to meet Retsudo, however with the string that is wrapped around the handle of his sword, he manages to loosen it and wrap it around Retsudos spear take it from him. Retsudo pulls out a samurai sword he had and the fight continues.
Inside the city people are placing bets on who they think will win, but Lone Wolf is wounded, and Retsudo is fresh, many people think Lone Wolf will die. The Shogun marches out of the castle with. In the novel thier is a bit more storyline which isnt in the film, it seems like the different houses of the Shogun all have some polictical gain by who wins or something, but it ends up all the houses and thier armies march out to view the fight. For a moment Lone Wolf seems to be getting the better of Retsudo but at one fatal moment he is struck, a good few pages are just devoted to Lone Wolf as he stands there and slowly falls, it was actually quite sad to see :( all seems lost, but then as Retsudo approaches to corspe Lone Wolf junches forth and give it everything hes got, in a fast frantic last stand Lone Wolf gives it everything hes got, and for another tense moment you actually think he might win. Lone Wolf does that thing to Retsudos where he tries to bring the sword down on his head, and Retsudo is holding the sword, and this goes on for a while. However after a bit Retsudo lets go of the sword, to reveal Lone Wolf has lost all his streangth and cannot kill him, it is at that moment you realise Lone Wolf has lost, it is very complelling for a graphic novel. Lone Wolf finaly falls to the ground dead, Diagro rushes over and remembers the moving speech Lone Wolf gave to him in the hut.
Diagro picks up Retsudos spear and faces Retsudo. Retsudolets Diagro kill him, and as the spear thrusts through his body he embraces Diagro and says 'Grandson...of my heart' and dies.

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That's pretty damn awesome. Thanks for taking the time out to share it with us.

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No way, everyone would cry.

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thanks for that, i actually come on to the board looking for an answer to what happened with the continuity after the movie, now i'm satisfyed. does anyone know how many graphic novels there are? i have a few but from my understanding there are quite a few more.

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28 according to wikipedia
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Thank you

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