Fans of the Blade of the Immortal manga will soon be able to immortalize their collection with special hardcover releases. Like Berserk and the soon-to-be-published Hellsing before it, Hiroaki Samura's epic is getting a series of Deluxe Hardcover omnibus releases, with volume 1 to arrive in its original 7x10 serialized format on October 20.

The first volume of Blade of the Immortal Deluxe will feature 576 pages at a suggested price of $49.99.

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A cursed, seemingly immortal warrior aids a young girl in her quest for revenge, as the students of a brutal new sword school tear a bloody path across Japan. Hiroaki Samura’s massive manga series spawned two anime adaptations, a spinoff novel, an art book, and a live-action film! Samura’s storytelling tour-de-force also won Japan’s Media Arts Award, several British Eagle Awards, and an Eisner Award, among other international accolades. Intense and audacious, Blade takes period samurai action and deftly combines it with a modernist street idiom to create a style and mood like no other work of graphic fiction.

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