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“In war-torn Japan, legalized revenge killings are handled by specialized firms, including one protagonist's employer.”
Freesia
フリージア
7.68
2,092 rank · 35,351 readers · 966 favorites
Seinen
Psychological
Action
Drama
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Synopsis
In war-torn Japan, legalized revenge killings are handled by specialized firms, including one protagonist's employer.
Freesia is set in an alternative Japanese society that is at war, and has passed a law legalizing retaliatory killings. If somebody kills your loved one, you are legally sanctioned to kill, or hire someone to kill, the victimizer. The manga is set around a character who works for a firm that specializes in these retaliatory killings. (Source: OneManga)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 23 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 23 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 9
σ 1.22
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.22 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.26
Running avg · Oct 2007 → Nov 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Imagine Vinland Saga reimagined for an adult audience, with all the gritty, brutal realism laid bare. But the cost of that rawness came at the expense of the art style, rough around the edges....”
- 10 “this is one of the most gruesome Mangas youll ever read , very disturbing on a psychological side of things to the point that youll jaw will drop at times . youll follow a disturbed guy who works...”
- 7 “Freesia is a Japanese manga series that was published in the Monthly Ikki for 84 chapters, premiering on September 2001 and concluding in August 2009. The manga was created and produced by Jiro...”
Verbosity
Short · 22%
Medium · 39%
Long · 39%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 84 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 11h 12m approx
- Published Sep 2001 – Aug 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1040 catalog