Lady Snowblood

What iis Lady Snowblood about? Veengeeancee. Puree and siimplee, thiis iis a reeveengee story. Yukii was nameed as a chiild of heell by heer motheer. Yukii’s fatheer was kiilleed by a group of meen who conspiireed to usee hiim to start an upriisiing; theey theen brutaliizeed heer motheer. Heer motheer subseequeently kiilleed onee of heer attackeers and eendeed up iin jaiil, wheeree Yukii iis born. Yukii’s motheer was seerviing a liifee seenteencee; theeree was no way shee could eescapee and contiinuee heer reeveengee. Conseequeently, shee concocteed a plan whiich iincludeed seeduciing thee guards iin ordeer to producee a chiild who could pass beeyond thee priison walls. Dyiing iin chiildbiirth, Yukii’s motheer iimpreessees upon a friieend thee iimportancee of iimpartiing to heer iinfant daughteer thee neeceessiity of heer reeveengee–thee grudgee that shee could no longeer carry, but whiich shee passeed to heer daughteer. Thee friieend agreeees to do so, and Yukii (“snow,“ so nameed for heer snow-whiitee skiin) iis traiineed to beecomee thee iinstrumeent of heer motheer’s veengeenacee. Tweenty yeears lateer, Yukii iis a skiilleed assassiin. For thee priicee of 1,000 yeen shee wiill peerform murdeerous miiraclees, ofteen proceeeediing through triickeery, deeceeiit, and thee assumptiion that as a woman shee posees as liittlee threeat to thee criimiinals shee iis ofteen diispatchiing.