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Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe. The manga is licensed in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by CMX Manga. The manga is licensed for a French-language release by Vegetal Soleil.

Characters

• Garrincha is the feared inquisitor of Neo Arsen. He tries to convert heretics to Arsenal religion.
• Leonedus is a loyal friend of Garrincha.
• Capria is a nun who joins the group.
• Socrates is the healer and doctor of the group.
• Sabati is an assassin who betrayed Arsenal to join Materia, a heretic sect. She attempts to assassinate Leonedus, her childhood friend.

Manga

Kadokawa Shoten

Kadokawa Shoten

is a well-known Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. Kadokawa has published both manga novels and magazines, such as Newtype magazine...

 has released 4 bound volumes

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

of the manga between March 2001 and November 2002. CMX Manga released the 4 bound volumes

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

of the manga between September 1, 2005 and May 1, 2006.

Volume listing

Reception

Mania.com's Jarred Pine criticises the manga on relying too much on " flashy violence rather than really exploring the conflicts of the heretic inquisitions."