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For the sake of his daughter, a middle-aged man embarks on the journey of a lifetime. (Source: MU)

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Ichiru Mizunuma is the student council president at the prestigious Ichimatsu High School. Shockingly, he is stabbed by fellow student and council vice president Kyosuke Hino. What is Kyosuke's motive? What is the badly injured Ichiru's secret plan? From the accomplished duo, writer Muneyuki Kaneshiro (As The Gods Will - The Second Series) and illustrator Naoki Serizawa (SARU LOCK), Billion Dogs is a fresh and exciting high school picaresque manga! (Source: MangaBox)

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Tokyo 1968: the time of the student revolt. In an attempt to escape his criminal past, Norio Nagayama sets off to the Japanese capital in the hope of a new beginning. At the "Village Vanguard", a jazz bar where the Japanese revolutionary students tend to hang out, he meets the young actor and director Takeshi Kitano. Takeshi's big film project: "Unlucky Young Men", a chronicle of a disillusioned Japanese generation – willing to do anything to live out their dreams. To finance the film's production, the two young men plan to attack a security van carrying 300 million yen...

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Ten years ago, they took him in. He doesn't even know who. And for ten years, he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years, his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jail mates. In time, he lost himself. He changed...transformed himself into something else...something hard...something lethal. Suddenly, one day his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life...and what's left is revenge. (Source: Dark Horse)

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Taking inspiration from the Russian classic Crime and Punishment and then placing the behemoth of a book into a modern metropolis, Ochiai Naoyuki retells Dostoevsky's drama from the eyes of a struggling Japanese writer. In the 2006 remake Crime and Punishment ~A Falsified Romance~ Ochiai's lead is an incredible talent with award winning abilities. Tachi recently placed as the Best New Writer in a major literary competition, but the stress of living up to his family's goals of him becoming a powerful man has broken him on the cusp of greatness. He dropped out of college. However after moving to Tokyo he struggles with his identity and the duality of life in this surreal megalopolis. Despite being recognized for his tremendous potential, success does not come quite as easy, and life is a constant struggle. For Tachi Miroku life is nothing but a battle, with his past and his moral fiber. He hasn't been to work in four months and his dreams are a total mess filled with abuse, taunting, and the strong smell of blood. Tachi is alone and without direction in life right now. You could say he is a hikkikomori but that is only where his troubles start. (Source: Otaku Magazine)