Welcome to my section on Akumetsu. Here I will cover the Manga.

Akumetsu's plot follows a teenager by the name of Shou Hazama, an ordinary, yet somehow comical and sleazy, high-school student, and his best friend Shiina Nagasawa.

The setup for the story is a near-future fictional Japan, where excessive corruption and speculation led the country to a massive economic downfall, so much so as to increase the public deficit to an enormous seven thousand trillion Yen, as said so by the first chapter. Much attention is given to the degraded political system, where politicians and businessmen simply enrich themselves amidst the growing unrest and violence of their nation. Such an example is gave by Shiina's family, which due to crushing debts sold their own daughter into prostitution, forcing her to attend as entertainer parties for elite members of the society.

It is during one such party, attended by high-profile employees of the Ministry of Finance, that what was going to become an orgy is suddenly interrupted by a young man wearing a demonic mask, who after giving a speech on how savage and corrupted the upper class of Japan has become, proceeds to brutally slaughter one of the economic advisors by crushing his skull with an axe. Recognized by a frantic Shiina as Shou, the man simply waves the statement off as a misunderstanding, then grabs the mauled body of his victim and walks calmly to the front lobby, where he is gunned down by police and, before dying, has his head blown off by a device implanted into his own mask.

Thus, the act introduces a long, exceptionally violent campaign of murders performed by such masked individuals, targeting those who are deemed as responsible for the massive economical crisis and, as such, labelled as evil by the masked men, who all goes by the common alias Akumetsu (literally destroyer of evil).

Akumetsu runs at a total of 18 volumes. It has not been published in English.

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