5 out of 5

One Abara-clothed, badass immortal samurai, pledging to, like, assassinate ’em all by nightfall; a league of Dark City, Blame!-type cybernetics, forming the ruling class and harvesting bits and pieces off the persecuted humans.

This is Tsutomu Nihei, distilled down to his most basic awesomeness, delivering big picture sci-fi ideas and wallops of wicked action across two short parts.

The art, design, and choreography is crisp, and easy to follow, and badass dude is wonderfully badass.