Biao Ren

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Synonyms: Blades of the Guardians

Japanese: 镖人

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Type: Manhua

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Jul 1, 2015 to ?

Genres: Action, Drama

Theme: Historical

Serialization: None

Authors: Xu, Xianzhe (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.71¹ (scored by 470 users)

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Ranked: #1642²

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Popularity: #6277

Members: 3,141

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"Escorts" are warriors paid to take out the targets wanted by the government. Dao Ma is one traveling warrior trying to repay the debt he owes to a man named Mo, who took care of Dao Ma and his child, Xiao Qi. But on the way back to Mo's town, they encounter a victim of the "rakshasa"—man-eating demons. Between the rise of rakshasa victims, bloodshed, slavery, and ruthless warriors, Dao Ma becomes caught up in the terror sweeping through the country during the last years of the Sui dynasty.

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Aug 30, 2021

FlowingCurrent

Recommended

Preliminary (107/? eps)

*I have been procrastinating from writing a review for Biao Ren for way too long. Today, I finally get to do it.

As the previous reviewer mentioned, so far Biao Ren feels more like a prologue. Even while reading the manhua, I don't know what the story is really about, which direction it is going for. One of the bloggers I follow describes Biao Ren as "a nerve-wracking action [soon-to-be] donghua that brought the chaotic historical era of the Sui dynasty to our plate this year. It revolves around assassins, man-eating demons, and a whole conspiracy where people’s emotions go haywire and the turmoil of war ... is everywhere." Now that we get the general idea of the story (not really though), let's move on to the actual review.

Biao Ren reminds me of Vagabond, and probably will suffer the same fate that it will never finish. However, I think it is definitely worthy of your time (I mean I read it ~2 years ago, and yet, I still remember some of the scenes).

Story: Starts off pretty solid, but as the story progresses, it gets messier and more confused partly due to my lack of understanding of the history of the Sui dynasty. Well actually, it's more like the mangaka expects us to know everything related to that timeline before reading the manhua. The story involves politics and conflicts between multiple groups of the time, so it's really hard to follow. The second issue is that the number of characters keeps growing. And many of the characters share similar names, so I got lost easily (despite having been reading several Chinese web novels which made me quite confident initially).

Art: Just amazing! Though the drawings do feel quite rough at first (I mean you can literally see the erased/semi-transparent sketches which probably means that the mangaka does not have enough time to polish the drawings), but the attention to detail is commendable. Some of the latest chapters, however, are not as messy but also not as detailed. There are scenes where the mangaka uses ink brush, and I am a SUCKER for ink brush, so that's definitely a plus.

Characters: I love all the characters' designs. Other than that, the characters themselves are just slightly interesting, not enough for me to feel emotionally invested.

In general, the series has its strengths and flaws. But I think that the flaws may overwhelm the strengths as its serialization continues. Why would anyone want to keep reading if they don't even understand the story? I also feel like even the mangaka is having a difficult time coming up with the story, hence his slow updates. Anyway, I recommend this manhua for anyone who tries to get into the manhua world and take this series as evidence to retort those who said that manhua art is trash.

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Jun 15, 2021

Trolls_Bane

Recommended

Preliminary (108/? eps)

This story is hard to describe, at first it feels a little like a western then Game of Thrones, but by chapter 109 it came into something of it's own, I can see it forming into something that could be better.

Something peculiar is it's use of metaphorical art which lead me to believe there is fantasy in this. But it is purely a historical fiction with Kings being likened to dragons and wolves, cannibals to monsters.

It's hard to recommend as it doesn't focus on one character but multiple characters. It's more of an ensemble cast, and it really does focus heavily on ...

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Oct 12, 2020

hana87

Recommended

Preliminary (99/? eps)

In my almost 3 decades of reading manga and watching anime, I have just written a review here, once. After finding out that this has no enough rating and review, I was like "What??!! Why?!!" I got frustrated so I logged in and made my second manga review.

To all the people out there who's contemplating wether to read this or not, PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND READ!!! This is the type of story that will make you want to end your day fast from work or school so you could just open your mobile and continue reading. THIS IS A MASTERPIECE!!!

Im too lazy ...

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