A martial arts historical series about a peasant turned samurai and caught in the turmoil of the final year of the Edo Period (1868).
Included one-shot: Inu no Seikatsu.
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Matsumoto Jiro
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Another short story collection from Jirô Matsumoto.
Contains 5 stories:
A Revolutionist in the Afternoon
A Revolutionist in the Afternoon 2 (not a sequel to the first one)
Desert Witch
Takeyama's Life
The Footmen Flee
A story of three childhood friends - Colo, Cookie, and Naomi - who grew up in a sleepy backwater town on an uncivilized planet. They struggle to get by while holding on to their dreams of leaving town and finding a better life but can their friendship endure the tests of time? Can it withstand invading armies, broken dreams, conflicting ambitions, divided loyalties, jealousy…
This world is broken, so are humans. Shuu is one of them. He's a talented sniper who keeps a broken android, named Alice. Together they live like hermits and make living by exterminating caravan robbers, until one day the woman that Shuu saved invites him to live in a commune.
Freesia is set in an alternative Japanese society that is at war, and has passed a law legalizing retaliatory killings. If somebody kills your loved one, you are legally sanctioned to kill, or hire someone to kill, the perpetrator. The manga is set around a character who works for a firm that specializes in these retaliatory killings.