Mafia - Page 4

(from ebookjapan): Shizuka Katsuragi is a female detective who loves silencers. She is assigned to the \"annex\" of the Community Safety Division, a hive of activity in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Her partner is Kenya Iha, the most eccentric person in the Metropolitan Police Department. The pairing of the two is a strange one, as they both pull each other down. With the policy of \"conquer poison with poison,\" her beloved gun quietly blows fire today...

Continuation of the manga \"Jesus\". The legendary killer, hiding under the guise of school teacher Fujisawa Shingo, returns to Japan after more than ten years! What made him come back? What has he been doing for these ten years? Is one of his new students connected to 24? Read on and find out in JESUS: Path of the Sandstorm!

(from ebookjapan): Fumiya Saotome, a reporter in the Akatsuki Shimbun\'s sociology department, is an unbelievably violent man. He will wield both pen and arm to the fullest for the sake of social justice. He chases after a hit-and-run case, and ends up with the son of a deputy. He was paid 100 million yen to keep his mouth shut.　 He is furious, and his money will not sell him out!

\"My name is Gen Kurosu, and as long as I stand, the Victory Flag will never fly over the heads of the Red Army! The machines roar and blood sprays! My name is Gen Kurosu!\" Motocross is a sport in which contestants race for fame on steel horses through rugged, rough terrain. The essence of motocross is the struggle against the harsh nature and oneself. This is the story of a lone warrior who, despite being called \"Stupid Don Quixote,\" stands in the way of the \"Red Army,\" the most powerful motocross team in Japan, which has achieved an undefeated record of 150 victories in a single year. This is the memorable first serial publication of manga master Tetsuo Hara!

The manga is about ten-year-old Chie, \"the most unfortunate girl in Japan,\" who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. Note: Jarinko Chie won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award for best general manga in 1981.

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.