Crime - Page 16

New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings.

This manga is partly inspired by the real-life Japanese horse bandit, Hakuro Kohinata, and depicts the tumultuous life of Kensaku Ohinata, who moved to China at a young age, was kidnapped by a group of horse bandits, but rose to prominence among their ranks and eventually grew up to unite a number of them under the name of Xiao Dongyang. Kensaku\'s adventurous spirit and ambition, as well as his positive, brave personality, can sometimes lead to light-hearted mischief, but as he matures into a young man, he grows to experience bouts of delusion. Regarded as one of Mitsuteru Yokoyama\'s most realistic and human works, this manga draws inspiration from another real-life Japanese horse bandit: Date Junnosuke, thus vividly depicting the reality of Chinese horse bandits.

Hart is a death row inmate with self-destructive tendencies who is drafted into a dangerous mining mission in a perilous forest. There, he encounters the highest-ranking leader, who turns out to be his first love from whom he had once parted ways. Hart tries to resist the strings of fate, but he gradually falls into a dangerous love relationship that defies his status.

This manga depicts the one-year gap in the story when Harumichi Bouya leaves Suzuran Boys High School until Hana Tsukishima arrives at Toaru City.