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“Japanese potter turned assassin Yo Hinomura, "Crying Freeman," kills for 108 Dragons while shedding tears for victims.”
Crying Freeman
クライングフリーマン
6.82
12,610 rank · 8,382 readers · 95 favorites
Seinen
Detective
Martial Arts
Organized Crime
Action
Adventure
Romance
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Japanese potter turned assassin Yo Hinomura, "Crying Freeman," kills for 108 Dragons while shedding tears for victims.
You Hinomura was an ordinary Japanese potter when a run-in with a Chinese mafia changed his life forever. Now an assassin for the 108 Dragons, Yo is the perfect killing machine. As a sign for remorse over his victims, he sheds tears after eliminating his targets. Because of this, he is infamously known by the Dragons and every other crime gang as "Crying Freeman." (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
5.8
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 7
σ 1.64
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.64 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 1.25
Running avg · Mar 2008 → Nov 2020
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “I cannot say if one should like or dislike Crying Freeman, this title starts out with such great potential but ends up being a pile of swill. In fact if Crying Freeman began and ended with the...”
- 7 “This manga is hard to get into, in that the main character is really difficult to sympathize with or get invested into. His basic premise of an assassin that doesn't actually want to kill works and...”
- 6 “I had this one on the back burner for a while, hoping I could dose up on some manly when I was feeling the need, but it fell quite a bit short of my expectations. The premise is quite interesting,...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 50%
Long · 25%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 103 × 9 ch × vol
- Total read 13h 44m approx
- Published Mar 1986 – Apr 1988
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1308 catalog