This volume continues Koike and Kojima's story of the famed ninja Hanzo Hattori and his trials and tribulations protecting the shogun-to-be, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Each page builds upon the relationship between the two warrirors and the women they love.

Path of the Assassin is the story of a young shogun on his way to unite Japan, and the trusty ninja assigned to protect him. Be it in crafty maneuverings of war, political push and pull, or bedroom adventures, young Hattori Hanzo will not be kept from his duties.

It's a battle of ninja versus ninja, with all the stops pulled out and every trick in the book. Well, almost every trick. Our protagonist/ninja, Hanzo's young ninja wife, Tsukumo, must avenge her father's death at the hands of another shadow warrior, but he's as crafty as they come.

The story continues! Path of the Assassin is the story of Japan's greatest shogun and his rise to power through the battles and intrigues of his late teens. Central to the story is a young ninja who must go to great lengths in order to secure victory for the boy who would become the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Volume 7 continues the story of shogun-to-be Ieyasu Tokugawa, battling and politicking his way to the leadership of Edo-era Japan. To do so, he must survive assasination attempts, political sabotage, bloody battlefields, and a ferocious wife. And he does this with the help of his friend and vassal, the unstoppable ninja Hattori Hanzo.

An impenetrable castle must be defeated, the country's best samurai swayed, and competing warlords politicked and tricked into line.

The world of samurai and ninja isn't just killing, politics, intrigue, and action. It's also about family, spirit, love, and sex. If there were ever a volume of Path of the Assassin that could be entitled "the sex volume," this would probably be it. Not just the act of sex, but the feelings, doubts, methods, results, and politics of sex.

In the late twentieth century, tremendous advances in robotics lead to the development of the Labor, humanoid mecha designed to perform heavy industrial work. But after these super-tools become the weapon of choice for criminals and terrorists, the Tokyo Police establishes a division of Patrol Labors - Patlabors - to fight fire with fire!

The SV2 hasn't quite figured out how to pull together as a team yet - and it's more important now than ever that they learn. The Labor contruction company Schaft Enterprise has a plan to make the most of a little corporate competition, and that plan involves pitting Schaft's new military Brocken Labors against its business rival's best product!

Tetsunosuke and Tatsunosuke are the sons of a diplomat who sought to bring peace and prosperity to Japan during the early Meiji Restoration. But when their parents are murdered before their very eyes, Tetsu seeks to join the Shinsengumi, the unofficial police and guardians of the Emperor in Kyoto. He succeeds and is taken on as a page, but it is not enough. He wants them to take another step and teach him how to become a "demon."

As Vice Commander Hijikata's page, Tetsu is one step closer to becoming a full-fledged member of the ruthless Shinsengumi and to avenging his parents' murders. Yet Tetsu has a few reservations about his decision to commit his life to the unofficial police force - primarily, the Code of the Shinsengumi. Before he can chose, however, his enemies will force his hand...

The Shinsengumi's enemies are plotting a revolution to restore the emperor to power. The Shinsengumi are aware of the plot, masterminded by pyromaniac ronin Yoshida Toshimaro, likely the man who killed Tetsu's parents. However, both sides plot quietly rather than take action...