History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Chapter 428

This is the Neo-version of "Tatakae! Ryouzanpaku Shijou Saikyou no Deshi" (A martial arts manga by the same author and featuring many similar characters and events)

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/


Every so often a romantic anime story steps aside from the mold of stock characters and story elements to produce something truly special and different. Last year SaiKano went down this path by offering a serious, intimate, and tragic look at two teen lovers struggling to maintain a relationship despite the fact that one of them was gradually losing her humanity. In so doing it became one of the most powerful, compelling, and best-written anime titles to be released in the States in 2004. This year's entry taking the “path less traveled” looks to be Koi Kaze, an intimate and mostly serious look at a potential forbidden relationship, one that involves both improperly disparate ages and incest. Though the storyline sounds like something that could have come out of an episode of Jerry Springer, delicate care is taken in showing how Koshiro starts to develop more than just familial feelings for Nanoka despite the improprieties of the situation. We see him react awkwardly, even gruffly, to Nanoka's presence in his household as he tries to sort out what he really feels towards her and desires about her, an altogether believable reaction which also neatly sidesteps the inherent creepiness of the circumstances. Although we do not get to see inside Nanoka's head as much so as we do Koshiro's, we also get a look at her reality as she adjusts to living with a brother she's never really known while leading the very ordinary life of a 15-year-old girl. The possibilities here for future developments are both intriguing and compelling, though they may make some viewers uncomfortable.