Yamato Gensoki

Author: Kentaro Yabuki

Run: 1999

Chapters: 18

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Historical

A fantasy adventure set in Yayoi-era Japan, an age when the land is splintered into rival states. Shion, a boy assassin raised by a shadowy organization, is ordered to kill Iyo, the girl who succeeded Himiko as queen of Yamatai. On learning it was the organization that murdered his father — and moved by the queen's resolve to unite the country — he turns his blade around and becomes her protector.