Anno Domini 1620. Europe is riven with the conflagrations that will grow into the Thirty Years War. Catholic and Protestant forces clash across battlefields ruled by sword and gunpowder alike, and mercenaries of every stripe ply their trade. Among them is Issak, a lone Japanese warrior bearing a matchlock of strange design, and fighting in service to his sworn mission-to find and kill the man who murdered his master and fled Japan for the other side of the world.Meticulously researched and gorgeously illustrated, Issak is the next character-driven, historical action epic that fans of Vinland Saga can sink their teeth into.
Issak and Prince Heinrich’s gambit may have worked, but the reprieve is short-lived. Crown Prince Alfonso’s mercenary forces, led by an Ambrogio Spinola seemingly back from the dead, have issued an ultimatum to the nearby city of Rosenheim: cut off all resupply to Castle Fuchsburg—dooming it for certain—or be destroyed. Leaving his men to defend Fuchsburg, Prince Heinrich and Issak travel to Rosenheim to lead its small garrison as the city braces for a siege. There, Issak must survive a bracing encounter with his past.