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Benkei in New York  
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Description
Manga doesn't get much more noir than this. Benkei is just another expatriate Japanese arist living in the Big Apple. Or so it appears. As there "diabolical hard-boiled stories" show, surfaces aren't always what they seem. Flashbacks delve into sordid, secret past lives, and old scored, long festering, emerge without warning, asking to be settled.

And Benkei's secret? Maybe it's just that he's the only artist in town who isn't having fantasies of being a hitman-for-hire. He is one.

Each self-contained episode in this complete "Benkei" collection is a tighly plotted, beautifully rendered, psychologically harrowing ride into the heart of urban darkness. Hard-boiled tales of revenge, rendered in the tight-lipped, fine-line style of Taniguchi Jiro, one of the creators of Viz's "Hotel Harbour View".

"Diabolically well-told, occasionally harrowing, Benkei is better than 96% of the crime fiction coming out of America right now"
-Warren Ellis

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Manga

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Associated Names
N.Y.の弁慶
New York no Benkei

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Status in Country of Origin
1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

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User Rating
Average: 6.9 / 10.0 (19 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.31 / 10.0
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Last Updated
October 8th 2009, 4:52pm PST

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Year
1995

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Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Viz Media (1 Volume - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #894 increased(+159)
Monthly Pos #2015 increased(+447)
3 Month Pos #3707 increased(+470)
6 Month Pos #4762 increased(+992)

List Stats
On 13 reading lists
On 37 wish lists
On 66 completed lists
On 4 unfinished lists
On 10 custom lists

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