Mori no Asagao - The Story of a New Prison Guard and a Certain Death Row Inmate

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Mori no Asagao - The Story of a New Prison Guard and a Certain Death Row Inmate
Mori no Asagao - Shinjin Keimukan to Aru Shikeishuu no Monogatari • モリのアサガオ 新人刑務官と或る死刑囚の物語 • モリのアサガオ
Violence or Gore
Origination: Manga
Demographic: Seinen
Published: 2004
Status: 📗 Completed
Translation: 📖 Ongoing
Final Chapter: Volume 7, Chapter 70
Ranked: #29,152
Followed by 121 users
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A work which highlights the “present” of the capital punishment system through Oikawa Naoki, a newly recruited prison officer, who faces condemned criminals everyday and agonizes. Based on close and careful research, the author tackles with the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on.

Won the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga.

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Authors: Gouda Mamora
Artists: Gouda Mamora
Genres: Drama, Psychological, Slice of Life, Tragedy, Gore, Crime
Theme: Police
Format: Award Winning
Publishers: Futabasha, Densho Bato

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