Lady Snowblood v01-v04 (2005-2006) Complete

What is Lady Snowblood about? Vengenge. Pure and simple, this is a revenge story. Yuki, named by her mother as a child of hell. Yuki's father was killed by a group of men who conspired to use him to start an uprising; they then brutalized her mother. Her mother subsequently killed one of her attackers and ended up in jail, where Yuki is born. Yuki's mother was serving a life sentence; there was no way she could escape and continue her revenge. Consequently, she concocted a plan which included seducing the guards in order to produce a child who could pass beyond the prison walls.