Cowboy Moment
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I went ahead and read the whole of Shigurui. It's a good read, though at the rate this is going I'd suggest Cowboy Moment sticks to relevant chapters. It's pretty long but most of it is stuffed with plotlines or scenes that end up going nowhere (I won't go into examples for the sake of spoilers but there's many a chapter that details something which never comes up again, making me wonder at the design process behind it).
It's an adaptation of one story out of a collection of neo-samurai tales by one Norio Nanjo, and it expands on the source material a fair bit. After it gained a lot of popularity, the mangaka decided to drag it out, and incorporated a bunch of plot threads from other stories, which only loosely related to the main story. I was actually intent on skipping them, unless the readers demand that I do not.
You have to admit though, the ending is fucking amazing.