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“Factory worker Satoru offered 5 million yen to kill ex-Yakuza neighbor, descending into madness.”
Zankyou
残響
6.83
12,597 rank · 5,380 readers · 57 favorites
Seinen
Drama
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Synopsis
Factory worker Satoru offered 5 million yen to kill ex-Yakuza neighbor, descending into madness.
Satoru spends his days listlessly in a factory town. The old man Segawa, a former Yakuza, lives in the room next to his cheap apartment. One day, Segawa asks Satoru to kill him for a 5 million yen, but Satoru hesitates, and Segawa sees through to the madness eating away inside him and begins to have a change of heart, and yet...!? A story of the filth of society and the dark path that Satoru takes, on the edge of sanity, with a gun and 5 million yen. (Source: MU, edited)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.30
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.30 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.75
Running avg · Mar 2020 → Feb 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “If I were to describe this manga in a sentence, it would be the following: Bleak and devoid of any light or hope, the ouroboros of the downtrodden bites its tail. 'Zankyou' is a pit of despair that...”
- 8 “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.--Andre Breton And so goes for this manga. The best word that describes the story and the whole theme,is nothing but the actual name itself!...”
- 8 “Life is a never-ending paradox. Having nothing, means nothing to fight for, but if fighting for happiness, brings unhappiness, is it all worth it at any point? “Zankyou” is bleak. Our protagonist,...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 75%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published May 2015 – Oct 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M33906 catalog