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“Cop Itsuki hunts the psychopath who murdered her sister and now threatens her again after early release.”
Life 2: Giver/Taker
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7.07
8,627 rank · 931 readers · 4 favorites
Seinen
Psychological
Drama
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Cop Itsuki hunts the psychopath who murdered her sister and now threatens her again after early release.
When the charming young boy who moves next door turns out to be a psychopath who murders her little sister, Itsuki vows to fight the injustice which gave him a second chance at life while her sister lies dead. Blaming herself for what happened, she becomes a stone-cold cop who fears nothing to prevent others from living through a similar tragedy. But six years later, on the very same day the killer is finally set free, she finds a chilling letter in her mailbox threatening to steal what's most important to her again. And though she wants nothing more than to make him pay for her sister's life that he stole, she'll have to watch her back now that there's a killer on the loose. (Source: Kodansha USA)
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median 7.5
mode 7
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- 7 “Story 8/10 Art 9/10 Characters 8/10 Enjoyment 7/10 Overall: From ch1-19 it's a 9/10! Then from ch20- till end it's a 6/10.. the quality just degraded out of nowhere! Logic just jumped out of the...”
- 8 “Suenobu does it again! A great story from start to finish. The characters are great and so are the themes. As bad as it is, some people don't change and can't be fix. They don't want to be fixed....”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 26 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 28m approx
- Published Jun 2016 – Oct 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M39285 catalog