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“Expatriate Japanese aristocrat Benkei hides his true identity as a hitman in noir New York stories.”

Benkei in New York

BENKEI IN NEW YORK [N.Y.の弁慶]

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Seinen Drama

7 chapters · 1 volumes · 1991 - 1995 · Manga

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Expatriate Japanese aristocrat Benkei hides his true identity as a hitman in noir New York stories.

Manga doesn't get much more noir than this. Benkei is just another expatriate Japanese arist living in the Big Apple. Or so it appears. As there "diabolical hard-boiled stories" show, surfaces aren't always what they seem. Flashbacks delve into sordid, secret past lives, and old scored, long festering, emerge without warning, asking to be settled. And Benkei's secret? Maybe it's just that he's the only artist in town who isn't having fantasies of being a hitman-for-hire. He is one. (Source: MU)