“Tricked into mercenary service, pilot Shin must serve 3 years, earn $1.5M, or desert to return home.”
Area 88
エリア88
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Tricked into mercenary service, pilot Shin must serve 3 years, earn $1.5M, or desert to return home.
Shin Kazama was an airline pilot who was close to marrying Ryoko Tsugumo, the daughter of the CEO of Yamato Airlines. Unfortunately, fate had other plans when his former best friend Satoru Kanzaki tricked him into signing a contract to be a mercenary pilot for the Kingdom of Asran. Now stationed at the Middle Eastern country's base Area 88, Shin has three ways to return to Japan: serve the air force for three years, earn US$1.5 million, or desert the base, facing imminent death. (Source: ANN)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 172 × 23 ch × vol
- Total read 22h 56m approx
- Published Jan 1979 – Jan 1986
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3356 catalog