“Japanese student Sen Owari becomes a target in underground US prison, seeking protection from drug dealer Swordfish.”
Under (xGround) Grand Hotel
アンダーグラ〔×ウ〕ンドホテル
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Japanese student Sen Owari becomes a target in underground US prison, seeking protection from drug dealer Swordfish.
Sen Owari has just become a convicted killer. An exchange student studying at Columbia University, Sen had entered into an illicit affair with one of his female professors. After murdering his lover's husband, he is sentenced to 80 years for first-degree murder and is locked away in a maximum-security US prison built entirely underground—UGH. It is known to the inmates as the Under Grand Hotel, and the majority of them will spend the rest of their lives here. Sen's status as the only Japanese person incarcerated in the facility has left him an outcast and target. Attempting to navigate a world he cannot possibly hope to understand, he is determined to win the protection of the prison's "shutcall"—the murderous drug dealer Swordfish. In return for the promise of safety, Sen will hand over his life and body.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 21 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 48m approx
- Published Apr 2003 – Oct 2005
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1778 catalog