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“Rescue-trained Rintarou inherits father's salvage company and 1.5 billion yen debt against his principles.”
Master Of Sea UMISHI
我が名は海師
7.42
3,961 rank · 2,243 readers · 10 favorites
Seinen
Action
Drama
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Rescue-trained Rintarou inherits father's salvage company and 1.5 billion yen debt against his principles.
Salvors are men responsible for towing wrecked ships and handling the cargo. They are different from rescue teams as they usually ask for money before offering help. Nanba Rintarou's father was the owner of such a company, but Rintarou really hated the way they operate and decided to work in a proper rescue team. However, Rintarou's father died right after Rintarou completed his training. In his will he asked Rintarou to take over his company. What's worse is he left his son a debt of 1.5 billion yen...
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- 7 “Story: 7 Its a pretty straightforward story with the first few arcs used to introduce all of the main cast one thing I didn't exactly love is that some of the villains feel comically evil while the...”
- 8 “This manga is about a marine salvage company known as Nanba Salvage. The company takes all sorts of jobs at sea, ranging from towing uncontrollable ships to raising crashed planes off of the sea...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 149 × 15 ch × vol
- Total read 19h 52m approx
- Published Jul 2004 – Dec 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M7809 catalog