Burai translates into villain, to be quite honest I
have only skimmed this manga by Iwasaki Youko. The Saitou Hajime in
this version is quite the eye-candy. Purple eyes and long hair, for
once we get a Saitou who's a real bishie! *sigh* Unfortunately I still
have no idea what's going on in the manga, only that it's set in the
early stages of the Shinsengumi where Serizawa Kamo is still one of
the Co-commander along with Kondou Isami (Kyokuchou) and is kind of
central in the manga. You do get Tokio in this one, she is a cross
dresser but as to what's going on... Hmmm... I'll update when I'm done
going through the stuff. I'm not much use ne? Gome! ^__^;;
There are actually two series now for this title. I was fortunate
enough to get all of them... The first five below is the first series
titled simply as "Burai and published by Asuka comics back in 1997.
The second set below is the second series manga set
entitled "Mato Kakusei - Burai", published back in 2000 by
Iwasaki-sensei. In both cases they are shounen manga even if the art
work is pretty.. And who doesn't want pretty? *grins*