“Kouta befriends mysterious ice-cream vendor and foreign man after witnessing their effortless fight, unaware of their hidden pasts.”
Paradise Lost
パラダイス・ロスト
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Kouta befriends mysterious ice-cream vendor and foreign man after witnessing their effortless fight, unaware of their hidden pasts.
A few years ago, when walking home from his usual late-night hang-out in Shibuya, Kouta stumbled on a street-fight. A ragged-looking ice-cream vendor, with the company of a foreign young man, when cornered by thugs, managed to knock them out as easily as swatting flies. As time flew by, Kouta made friends with these peculiar men. But even so until now, he remains clueless of who they really are, where they came from and what lies behind their relationship and their hidden pasts... (Source: MU)
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A Manga Publication
- Published Jan 2003 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M4795 catalog