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Manga

Related Series
Dokuro (HAYASHI Nobuyasu) (Alternate Story)

Associated Names
DOKURO―毒狼―
毒狼

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Latest Release(s)
v.4 c.26-32 + extra (End) by Hokuto no Gun & Illuminati-Manga over 8 years ago
v.3 c.17-25 by Hokuto no Gun & Illuminati-Manga over 9 years ago
v.2 c.8-16 by Hokuto no Gun & Illuminati-Manga over 9 years ago
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Status
in Country of Origin
4 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

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N/A

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Average: 6.6 / 10.0 (45 votes)
Bayesian Average: 6.48 / 10.0
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Last Updated
March 4th 2016, 3:03am


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Year
2004

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Business Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #759 increased(+24)
Monthly Pos #1707 increased(+154)
3 Month Pos #2248 increased(+1071)
6 Month Pos #4526 increased(+255)
Year Pos #7633 (No change)

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On 207 wish lists
On 129 completed lists
On 13 unfinished lists
On 75 custom lists

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Do you become a sheep before the strong, and a wolf before the weak?  
by StoneLuigi
December 28th, 2022, 11:13pm
Rating: 8.0  / 10.0
The strength and weakness of this series is its single-minded righteousness.

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The cruelty of a cult is that most of the members are desperate victims. In other words, it's hard to make them threatening _and_ unsympathetic. The artist/author only has three characters with ANY chance of injuring Kiku: Gin, Mudo, Gatchan. Gin was lied to and questions it in the last second of her life, Mudo was a fellow victim on Kiku's side all along, and Gatchan is just a helpless mindless prisoner being used like a mule. The cult doesn't have a single serious fighter who truly understands and defends Aiichiro!

Mudo comes the closest - but it turns out that he shares Kiku's motives all along. So why didn't he set up a private meeting and explain the situation so they could fight side-by-side? Instead they get in a pointless deathmatch which ends with Kiku destroying his only ally in the church.

Speaking of allies, what happened to the woman helping him out at the beginning? She seemed cool, but she takes off after witnessing Kiku's arrest and we never see her again. I guess there was no opportunity to bring her back, but then why was she there in the first place? Just to let Kiku humanize himself by hesitating to kill Gin? Kiku never has to fight another elderly person, so it never needs to come up again.

When Mudo dies, Kiku no longer has any opposition. He effortlessly gets inside the compound and kills Aiichiro in front of his followers and, surprisingly, that's it. What happens to the church? Their leader was decapitated in front of the entire world! He was just about to meet up with the prime minister! It feels very perfunctory - wasn't this mission Kiku's only reason to live? He should either die in the process, or find something that redeems him (like love to go on living), but all the kind characters are driven off or killed. Saruwatari doesn't give Kiku death or love. Only victory. But is it still victory if we don't see the church actually collapse, and have to assume it does? Is Kiku capable of becoming a happy person, or is he just going to kill himself off-screen?

The stuff I'm nitpicking might sound dissatisfying, but it's all forgivable because the story is very clearly not the point. This manga is about evil cultist sickos getting their body parts rearranged. Kiku can't be anything but an invincible avenger because that's just how perverse his environment is. But unlike the other reviewers, I find him charming and likable. A helpless crybaby corrupted by a sick world into a killing machine, possessing only monstrous strength and a morsel of compassion - what more do you need in a fighting seinen? The part I knew I would like this manga is when the dying man whose family was killed by the cult begs Kiku to kill him, and Kiku breaks his neck, but not before hugging him.

Dokuro is a very honest story. There is no pseudo-sophisticated high-concept twist like "fighting against evil makes YOU the real evil!" or "religions can never be destroyed because the church will survive the death of its constituents". This is a story about a guy single-handedly ending a fake religion with the blessing of God. You can feel the author gritting his teeth. He wants to see evil people get torn to bits for the victims they've destroyed, but it can only happen on these pages.


As far as the fights go, they're excellent abrupt bloodbaths in the Hokuto no Ken style - big evil fuckers mouth off and our unsmiling hero punches straight through them. If you liked Riki-Oh (illustrated by the same magnificent artist), definitely check this out. At 4 volumes, Dokuro is a super-quick read. You can get through the whole thing in an afternoon.

... Last updated on January 1st, 2023, 12:10am
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Good ideas surrounded by lackluster execution  
by Jeffu
November 24th, 2018, 2:37pm
Rating: 4.7  / 10.0
From the start Dokuro hits you with his message one that is often explored but never gets old, cults and their effect in the population, but we don't see those effects from the point of view of the every day man, we see the effects through the point of view of a boring muscle head who is often called "the chosen by god" or god itself. If you can't tell the protagonist Kiku is one of the most boring characters of all time IMO.

Now this manga is not completely worthless, the art is outstanding, the fights are hard hitting and violent and Kiku's weapon of choice is quite unique, but you can get all of these things from other mangas soooo....

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Also i usually don't complain about endings, but considering that this is a revenge history, the mangaka could've dedicated more than a few panels to the death of the cult leader, all of that build up straight in to the trash


... Last updated on November 24th, 2018, 2:39pm
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bloody good  
by whitespade
February 19th, 2012, 3:34pm
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the art is awesome. remind me of battle royale with all the lovingly rendered pieces of flesh. the plot is quite interesting, cant wait to see what will happen. im not a fan of expressionless main char, but i suppose that is the only way the story could work. a good manga.
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