Crying Freeman, Vol. : Abduction in Chinatown

by Ryōichi Ikegami, Kazuo Koike

Book by Koike, Kazuo

Genres: Manga

168 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1993

About the author

Ryōichi Ikegami (池上遼一) is a manga artist. He was assistant to manga artist Shigeru Mizuki in 1966. In 2001, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga as the artist of Heat. He became a professor at Osaka University of Arts in 2005.

Ikegami has worked on several popular series, such as Mai, the Psychic Girl with writer Kazuya Kudo, Crying Freeman, with writer Kazuo Koike, as well as Sanctuary and Heat with writer Sho Fumimura. He also wrote and drew Spider-Man: The Manga, a manga version of Spider-Man and collaborated with Garon Tsuchiya for the manga BOX (BOX 暗い箱). His most recent work is Lord currently serialized in Big Comic Superior.

Reviews

[Mark]

Doctor not get me wrong the art of these manga's concerning the Crying Freeman is quite brilliant the erotism of these stories are an aquired taste. In this tale the erotique part is somewhat farfetched and weak, but undoubtely an essential part.
The leader of Chinatown has his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter taken. He contacts the people from the 109 Dragons in the guise of the Freeman, worlds most dangerous assassin.
Then it turns out that an organisation called KO = Kidnap Organisation is behind the kidnapping and has its aims at world domination by taking away crime organisations and replacing them by military forces. And to top it off the female leader of KO has the hots for the Freeman.
So the Freeman has his work cut out for him, his sister, wife and organisations.
beautifull B/W art and fun to read.

[Aurelio Ippandoza]

Loved this series...great manga.