Mystery ultraviolent manga from/before late '80s
April 25, 2013 2:52 PM Subscribe
Hoping to ID an incredibly violent manga that I read a few pages of, back around '88 give or take a couple of years. I've had some images seared in my then-impressionable brain. Lots of blood and gore but not explosively cartoonish like, say, Hokuto no Ken / Fist of North Star. More cruel than anything. Set in modern times. The main character was some sort of vagabond/wanderer/assassin, and was drawn in a Golgo 13 style, with longish hair and maybe a leather jacket. Episodic stories as far as I can tell of him going around fighting baddies.
I had borrowed it from a Japanese girl - I believe it was a tankobon. I didn't speak Japanese then so I can't relay non-visual details. Some scenes I recall:
- The "hero" is being attacked by a "villain" who is trying to mow down the hero using a big rig truck with a bulletproof glass protecting the driver's seat. Unfazed, the hero jumps almost superhumanly, and dive-kicks the glass. Cracks appear to the speechless shock of the villain. Another kick, and the hero smashes thru the glass, jump-kicking the villain straight on the forehead. An x-ray-like frame shows the villain's skull, now with cracks. He dies.
- The hero is fighting off multiple villains. He beats them, but not before 2 baddies have driven their swords into the hero, from the back, around waist-level. He is bleeding profusely, but still walks away after saying some words to a female character nearby in that Japanese manga-hero macho way. Next frame shows him in a hospital though, barely surviving.
- A villain is able to control snakes to attack and murder people. He learned this in some sort of training camp for evil folks. He kills a bunch of people at a gathering (party?), sending his snakes into the house/building and having them bite and choke people to death. A woman who trained with him at the camp is involved in fighting him, and eventually she throws a short knife into his forehead/skull to kill him.
I had borrowed it from a Japanese girl - I believe it was a tankobon. I didn't speak Japanese then so I can't relay non-visual details. Some scenes I recall:
- The "hero" is being attacked by a "villain" who is trying to mow down the hero using a big rig truck with a bulletproof glass protecting the driver's seat. Unfazed, the hero jumps almost superhumanly, and dive-kicks the glass. Cracks appear to the speechless shock of the villain. Another kick, and the hero smashes thru the glass, jump-kicking the villain straight on the forehead. An x-ray-like frame shows the villain's skull, now with cracks. He dies.
- The hero is fighting off multiple villains. He beats them, but not before 2 baddies have driven their swords into the hero, from the back, around waist-level. He is bleeding profusely, but still walks away after saying some words to a female character nearby in that Japanese manga-hero macho way. Next frame shows him in a hospital though, barely surviving.
- A villain is able to control snakes to attack and murder people. He learned this in some sort of training camp for evil folks. He kills a bunch of people at a gathering (party?), sending his snakes into the house/building and having them bite and choke people to death. A woman who trained with him at the camp is involved in fighting him, and eventually she throws a short knife into his forehead/skull to kill him.
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posted by coolxcool=rad at 8:39 PM on April 25, 2013