A crafty young hero sparks a yakuza war in a group effort to stop an ambitious unifier from taking control of the entire country’s gangs, in this early seinen work from a longtime mangaka. Our next series is Don- Gokudo Suikodenドン 極道水滸伝, a three-volume yakuza serial that began in Big Comic in 1978. Best known at […]
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