Wounded Man, Volume 2

Wounded Man #2

by Kazuo Koike, Ryōichi Ikegami

Flash back in time as Keisuke tells Yuko of his painful past and what's fueling his desire for revenge. Explore the love Keisuke feels for his high-school sweetheart, Natsuko. You'll learn the motivations behind GPX's twisted porn industry and how they find their perfect porn stars. Both are locked in a life or death struggle against GPX as they bring in porn stars to try to force them to have sex with various people while it's getting filmed. Both Keisuke and Natsuko would rather die than be forced into making the film and GPX starves the two of them in order to make them succumb. When the pain becomes too unbearable, Natsuko bites off her own tongue to prove her love for Keisuke will never be tarnished. Flash forward to Keisuke and Yuko's trip upriver to Galimpo where gold is to be found; as well as a means to fund his vengeful plans. However, the local natives have other plans for the outsiders who're exploiting their territory

Genres: Manga

400 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2001

About the author

Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, Koike Kazuo) was a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.

Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series.

Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub), and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub.

Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans.

Kazuo Koike started the Gekika Sonjuku, a college course meant to teach people how to be mangaka.

In addition to his more violent, action-oriented manga, Koike, an avid golfer, has also written golf manga.