西郷伝

Synopsis

Aiming to reform the world with the aim of a peasant revolution, Kyonosuke Saigo, a bandit-like gangster with noble aspirations, and his gang kidnap the concubine of the feudal lord, Shimazu Narioki, and use her as a hostage to hold her for ransom. However, in the midst of all this, he meets a young man named Kishinosuke Saigo, a member of the Satsuma feudal retainer's page group. Baron's style biography of Saigo Takamori, which vividly depicts the unknown youth of Saigo in the infancy period towards the end of the Edo period, with an easy and modern style!