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“Reformed killer grocer battles bloodlust until a lost girl, Alice, offers him a chance at redemption.”
Kaitai Zanuff
解体ザナフ
7.19
6,795 rank · 5,132 readers · 30 favorites
Seinen
Psychological
Horror
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Synopsis
Reformed killer grocer battles bloodlust until a lost girl, Alice, offers him a chance at redemption.
George Zanuff is an educated owner of a neighborhood grocery store... but he is also a killer with a propensity to maim beautiful women. Zanuff suffers knowing that he is a monster, so every day he feels his thirst for blood begging him to slice his female clients. However, he battles hard every day to control his murderous instincts and lead an honest life even rejected by his own family. But all that changes when he meets a lost little girl named Alice... Kaitai Zanuff is a one-shot about a killer who knows perfectly the monster that he is, and how love is capable of redemption. (Source: Yadon Scans, translated)
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 0.83
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.83 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.25
Running avg · May 2020 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “The story for this one-shot is easy to follow. A mentally ill boy killed and dismembered his classmate. He was then released from prison after serving his 20 years, he now runs a meat shop as a...”
- 7 “It's complicated to really dissect it. As a whole, it seems like a very typical edgy one-shot about a killer who wants to live a normal life, with the calling of a murder coming to him everyday,...”
- 7 “Kaitai Zanuff is a quick and effective one-shot with appealing art. Given how short the story is, I will not be summarizing the full story or spoiling major points. The titular character Zanuff is...”
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Short · 25%
Medium · 50%
Long · 25%
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A One shot Publication
- Format 1 ch ch × vol
- Total read 0h 08m approx
- Published Dec 2012 – ongoing
- Source One shot media type
- Ref. BS-M45578 catalog