this manga is so beautiful. the semi realistic art remind me of the immortal samurai, where every page are washed with the innards of the fallen drawn to exquisite detail for us to enjoy. and you can never truly predict who will live and who will die for the secondary characters and until the end you will be surprised who actually live to tell the tale. this seems like a straight manga where death after death occur, but behind it theres simple but effective little plot twists that keep you turning the page wanting to know what will happen next.

and truly, this never paint them as the good guys unlike some manga that glorify pirates and hitman, so you enjoy them being them without such pesky things as morals. and even so, justice triumph in the end and you will be left satisfied on all account.

this is a great manga to feed your violence fetish. read it!

The manga starts out on a fun, gritty, gory note and has everything you might need for a fun romp through an urban gangland: hot guys with big weapons, questionable morals, and a whole lot of over-powered Yakuza and bounty hunters who need killing.

The first half of the manga goes along smoothly, fleshes out the conflict and new characters it introduces, provides a motive for the protagonist, and actually builds an intriguing little world inside of its plot that really drew me in.

Then for whatever reason, the manga just shot off into the usual disappointing cliches. The conflict between Tennouren and Gabriella was something that I really liked through and through, but after awhile even that started to tank and drag itself under, too.

So, unless you're in mostly for the hot guys, which is one thing this manga doesn't disappoint with, I wouldn't really recommend getting too involved with this one. It's just one great build up that tanks into inevitable disappointment.

Mostly, the ending is just straight up awful.

... Last updated on June 24th, 2013, 9:19am

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.

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

You'll hope for 2nd season

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+

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.

"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.

From the first chapter this manga kicks ass (reminds me of berserk)

Has too many cliché stuff in it and it may get really annoying, the art is totally cool, but the history isnt too special, and the way the main character acts is really annoying... yet, I cant say I'd recommend it for anyone, too bad the proyect is with no signs of life...