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Jackals  
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Description
Cicero City, a city infested with immigrants where people of all races scramble to find work and shelter. Infested with destruction and slaughter, it's a chaotic society. Living on the outside of society, the Jackals are professional assassins with no allegiance, available to the highest bidder. This is their story.

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Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
ジャッカル

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Illuminati-Manga
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Latest Release(s)
v.7 c.48-56 (end) by Illuminati-Manga (506d ago)
v.6 c.46-47 by Illuminati-Manga (558d ago)
v.6 c.44-45 by Illuminati-Manga (571d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
7 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 8 / 10.0 (354 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.91 / 10.0
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February 10th 2013, 10:49am PST

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Genre
Action  Martial Arts  Mature  Seinen 
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Author(s)
KIM Hyung-Jin
MURATA Shinya

Artist(s)
KIM Hyung-Jin

Year
2006

Original Publisher
Square Enix

Serialized In (magazine)
Young GanGan (Square Enix)

Licensed (in English)
No

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Monthly Pos #1387 increased(+324)
3 Month Pos #2106 increased(+269)
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On 552 wish lists
On 669 completed lists
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 Enjoyable   
Rating: 7.5 / 10.0
by YukikoKudo
March 2nd, 2013, 11:09am
Would be your average shounen manga, but the art is really nice (hence, 7.5 rather than 7) The action sequences are done very well. Plenty of gore, but didn't bother me too much since people were mostly getting sliced in half, no closeups of guts spilling out .

The characters/world could have been more fleshed out. Other than that, really no complaints. It was an enjoyable read, fairly average but nothing bothered me. Nothing stood out as spectacular, which is why it's not rated 8+
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 Appreciation of the male body.   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by jnatsumi
February 26th, 2013, 1:05am
The subject of this post sounds very naughty, haha. But what I mean to say is that the illustration on this manga is superb. Rough at the right parts and smooth, thick lines in others--very shounen. The abbs are greatly exaggerated though.. To the point of ridiculous sometimes. Quite a male dominant cast.

Lots of "picturesque" scenes...you know, those scene where the illustration and the composition blend perfectly, making the prefect wallpaper. So, basically, cool posing and all that. wink

I sought out this manga because I wanted good fight scene, and this manga fulfill that desire perfectly. Lots of sword fightings.
Though I am sometimes distracted by the art (the abbs) or the gore.
I'm not a squeamish person, so the gore (i.e. body parts cut in half) doesn't bother me as much as it probably should. But I must warn others reading this: be prepare for the blood and gore.

Plot: it's good so far. Typical gang scruffles. I'll update again on this when I finish reading it.
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 Yakuza gangs delinquent and such   
Rating: N/A
by shanden123
February 18th, 2013, 8:46pm
this is in my list of being one of the best to read out of my category ( see subject) got to say the ending left me satisfied but wanting more.. this is a must read trust me u wont get bored
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 mediocre   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by kreatur
January 11th, 2013, 8:55am
Mediocre manga in all aspects. It starts with some potential but you soon come to realize that's all the author can do. He had a nice idea but wasn't able to develop it.

The story is boring though there's a lot of action, you still don't care about it or any of the characters. This manga is listed as seinen but it's simple as a shounen.

The art is ok. It has some strong points but it can't fill the void the story leaves.
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 Nothing special.   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by Jooles
January 10th, 2012, 12:11pm
The art is great, the story and characters are clichéd with no original exectution, no real development in either area, but I didn't REGRET reading it, and I guess that's the main point. A seven for being completely standard and enjoyable.
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 Overwhelmingly Upset   
Rating: N/A
by DumbDoughBoy
January 3rd, 2012, 9:04pm
Goodness gracious mangakas, why, why, why? The story was built up so great and then, the inevitable happens, the ending came as fast as it could and was terrible. Cliffhanger...really though? I mean, this doesn't look like its getting a sequel so just wrap it up, and I mean WRAP IT UP. I guess lately I have just been reading too many good mangas that ended up with egregious endings.
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 Shitty Ending   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by BadassOtaku
January 3rd, 2012, 5:31am
"In the beginning, there was Jackals, and it was awesome."

This manga started out dark, violent and gory, with some of the better artwork I've ever seen. Helps that everything was being gloriously eviscerated by a dark-skinned, light-haired K-doppelganger wielding a giant serrated kitchen knife (Bleach, anyone?). The support characters were decently fleshed out too and set the stage for an interesting seinen gorefest.

But everything goes downhill from the halfway point. Tired storylines, cliched flashbacks to tragic pasts and oh-so-predictable deus ex machina appearances by previously unkown superpowers (and of course the known). By the last ten chapters it becomes a rehash of the worst aspects of Rurouni Kenshin and Shin Angyo Onshi combined with a swiss cheese worth of plot holes enough to make the most seasoned reader wince. Its rare to see manga detiorate so rapidly and in such egregious form that it makes one wonder if the original author had died and been impersonated by Stefanie Meyer (touch wood). Even its incredible art begins to flag in its visceral impact and unique style at the end, eventually looking like a cgi reproduction of typical shounen-action art (thank god Bleach hasn't gotten to that point yet).

I give this a 7 simply based on the sheer awesomeneness present in first half of the manga. Considering anything after that would be just sad, and a disservice to the huge potential this one had.

Fuck you.
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 Decent shonen/seinen, but ends too quickly?   
Rating: 7.5 / 10.0
by natnair
July 13th, 2011, 6:24pm
Both the writer and artist are very creative; you can tell that they've put in quite a bit of effort into designing the looks of the characters, be it costumes, weapons, or fighting styles etc (the artist is evidently heavily inspired by King of Fighters--main character looks like K'.) The feeling I get from this manga is a bit like a modern-day Rurouni Kenshin. It's classed as a Seinen for the violence presumably, but story-wise it's more like a Shonen.

The build-up to the conclusion feels less than climatic however (I'm into the second-last volume), and I doubt if the author can tie everything up neatly in the last volume. As such, I'm expecting a weak ending...

... Last updated on July 13th, 2011, 6:35pm
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 The artwork drew me in!   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by LUEser
October 14th, 2009, 7:49am
Yes, like my subject says, the artwork really caught my attention. I like reading most Seinen and shounen because it provides really good-looking guys in action for me. wink And this one...MAN, two good-looking dudes equalled a few for me! I really like how the bodies are drawn for both men and women in this one and, though I'm not a big fan of TOO much blood, I think the action was totally heating!
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 Good seinen   
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by IvanTheChemist
October 1st, 2009, 2:30pm
Lots of fighting that at first glance looks almost real real. Realistic world and all characters obey some form of physics laws. I really like the art and the style. Blood, gore and violence - when needed, drama - when needed. Almost nothing out of place.
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