![]() He tells her he only does it when girls steal his bed. Manji cooks her a frog to eat and she notices an unmarked gravestone nearby, then asks him why he sleeps outside. Rin's first impression of Manji, using the drawing Yaobikuni gave her. She is troubled by violent nightmares of what happened to her family, but the next morning she finds Manji cutting wood with his sword outside. After walking seemingly all day, Rin finds a small hut out of town and sleeps there. Yaobikuni gives her a drawing and description of Manji so Rin can track him down. Yaobikuni expresses doubt that one young lady will be able to defeat thirty hardened swordsmen and convinces Rin to buy "the strongest, toughest yojimbo of all," the now-immortal Manji, to help her on her quest. She has been training for the past two years to take revenge on Anotsu Kagehisa and his Ittou-ryu, who were responsible for the massacre of her parents and their sword school, the Mutenichi-ryu. Yaobikuni asks her whose grave she is sitting at, and Rin tells her it's her father and then says her mother was taken away. Rin meets Yaobikuni, the 800-year-old nun, while at her father's gravestone. The perpetrators of this event were the Ittō-ryū, and their leader, Anotsu Kagehisa. In Edo, two years prior to the events of Blade of the Immortal, on Rin's fourteenth birthday, her father is murdered and her mother kidnapped along with the students of her father's sword school, the Mutenichi-ryū. Although many of her other personality traits may be subject to change, one thing she has always shown is compassion, even for an enemy. When concerning Manji's safety, she can be very tough and even violent. Eventually, she matures and becomes stronger, more intelligent, and more independent. She sometimes ties her hair back into a bun with a plain rag, but this is at leisure.Īt the start of the series, though immediately showing unwavering determination for revenge, Rin is quite naive and at times immature. In these rings, she conceals both poison and medicine. She often wears her hair in two plaits secured with gold rings. Though Rin has changes her clothes a few times and has quite a striking design on her civillian kimono, perhaps the most peculiar thing about her physically is her hairstyle. ![]() This continues on and off throughout her and Dōa's infiltration of Edo castle, with both Rin and Dōa changing back and forth from their beggar disguises to their usual clothing and vice versa. ![]() She again changes her clothes and hairstyle in volume 19, Badger Hole, where she and Dōa dress in rags in order to pass as beggars. In volume 8, The Gathering, she wears her hair in a "youthful fashion" while pretending to be the innkeeper's wife's sister, Sawa. The first instance of this occurred in Volume 8, The Gathering she borrows the kimono of the Meshimori-onna of the inn that she, Manji, and the Mugai-ryu stay at in Naito Shinjuku while pursuing Anotsu. While preparing to travel to Kaga, she changes her clothes and hairstyle in order to pass as someone else. Prior to the events of the story, she wears a kimono with a flowery pattern, and, on one occasion, a child's kimono. However, in some of the art from the series, the flame design is depicted as pale yellow instead of blue. Rin often wears a red kimono with a bright blue flame design on the sleeves and skirt section. Here, the flame design on Rin's kimono is depicted as being yellow instead of blue. 8.4 Gallery of Issues featuring Rin on the Cover:.
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