Tsugumi Project Vol. 03

Tsugumi Project Vol. 03

In this acclaimed, postapocalyptic action manga, a soldier named Leon is taken from his family on a trumped-up charge and dropped into a suicide mission to recover a dangerous weapon from a deadly place, a place ruled by huge, irradiated, mutated monsters–a place once known, 200 years ago, as Japan. One of the scant pieces of information they have is the weapon’s codename: Tsugumi.

This gory, mysterious story, which has already thrilled readers in Japan and France, is an action-suspense epic in the vein of classics like Blame!, Spriggan, and AKIRA.

After stumbling upon the journal of a former prisoner, Leon and Doudou glean some clues about the location of the mysterious TORATSUGUMI. Now, they set their sights on a place called Sado–a place that seems to call up distant memories and complicated emotions in Tsugumi.

As Tsugumi wrestles with her past, she comes under attack by a swarm of flying monkeys. A hulking, female “clothed thing”–the same one that Leon previously fought and nearly blinded–drives the assailants away, but is she there to save Tsugumi…or to exact revenge?

Biographical Notes:

ippatu’s manga debut, Tsugumi Project, was first published in France before being picked up for publication in Japanese and English by Kodansha.

Title Notes:

Ippatu realizes a lush, detailed dystopian Japan that will remind readers of classics like AKIRA and Blame!

The soldier seeking a dangerous piece of technology who encounters a mysterious girl who communes with monsters will remind readers of classic Miyazaki anime Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke as well as TV classics like Blood+ and Blue Submarine No. 6.

This is the second series, after Beyond the Clouds, to be picked up by Kodansha for global publication after development by ki-oon, a French publisher working, working with a Japanese author.

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