What is "azumi"

is a manga series created by Yū Koyama in 1994. Its story concerns the title character, a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing the warlords that threaten the uneasy peace in Feudal Japan in the aftermath of its long Sengoku civil war period.

Azumi was originally published by Shogakukan and serialized in Big Comic Superior, and received an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1998. The manga was later adapted to two feature films starring Aya Ueto (2003's Azumi and 2005's Azumi 2: Death or Love), and a video game and a stage play in 2005.

Azumi is a Japanese comic and media franchise.

Azumi may also refer to:

• Azumi (name)
• Azumi people, a people of ancient Japan
• Azumi, Nagano, a former village in Minamiazumi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, that was merged into Matsumoto in 2005
• Azumi (film), a film based on the manga

Azumi can be either a Japanese given name or surname.

• Jun Azumi, a politician
• Ryō Azumi ( fl. 1980s to present), a Japanese manga artist
• Azumi Inoue (born 1965), a Japanese singer
• Azumi Kawashima (born 1979), a Japanese AV pornography actress
• Azumi Muto (1986–2006), a Japanese actress and murder victim
• Azumi Uehara (born 1984), a J-pop singer
• Azumi Sawa (born 1977), an investor
• a member of the Japanese group Wyolica active in 2000

• Azumi, the titular character of the manga and film series Azumi
• Hime Azumi, a character in the manga Tokyo Mew Mew
• Azumi Hidaka, a character in the Mirmo! manga series
• Azumi Yamada, a character in Hen
• Azumi, a character in the tokusatsu Kamen Rider Blade, human guise of the Serpent Undead

Category:Japanese feminine given names

Azumi is a 2003 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Ryûhei Kitamura and starring Aya Ueto in the titular role. Azumi is an adaptation of Yū Koyama's manga series of the same title, and was followed by the sequel Azumi 2: Death or Love in 2006.