New Lone Wolf and Cub

An epic samurai adventure of staggering proportions—over 7000 pages—Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Okami in Japan) is acknowledged worldwide for the brilliant writing of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of the late Goseki Kojima, creating unforgettable imagery of stark beauty, kinetic fury, and visceral thematic power that influenced a generation of visual storytellers both in Japan and in the West. (Source: Dark Horse)

Five-year-old Daigoro was arrested for the crime of attacking someone with a sword inside Edo Castle. The shogun was sympathetic to Daigoro for saving the shogunate from crisis, but opinions within the shogunate were sharply divided on whether to spare his life or sentence him to death. The Shogun banished him to the underground labyrinth of Edo Castle called "Danjō".