Sekikawa Natsuo

Jotaro Fukamachi - private detective, 177 cm tall and 75 kg, long face and muscular. He is not an ugly man, but he is not handsome. He once married a doctor and had a daughter, Kaori, but they divorced, and his heart is a lonely love hunter. The quintessence of a humorous hard-boiled story - you can't talk about manga without reading this.

Tokyo, November 1905. The Meiji Era began about 30 years ago, propelling Japan into the modern era. Never before had a country experienced such profound transformations in such a short time. It is in this context, at the same time totally changed and intensely Japanese, that the writer Natsume Soseki, back from England, begins the writing of his most famous work: Botchan... It will have taken twelve years to Jirô Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekikawa to complete the 5 volumes of the vast fresco that is At the time of Botchan.

This work is a collection of 8 short stories: Seifuu wa Shiroi (西風は白い) Shi Yori mo Akaku (死よりも赤く) Natsu wa Ki Zameta Kouya (夏は着ざめた荒野) Kanata ni wa Midori no Mori (彼方には緑の森) McKinley no Nemureru Hato (マッキンレーの眠れる鳩) Kita no Shiroku (北の示録) Inu no Hi (犬の日) Shinu ni wa Yoi Hi da (死ぬには好い日だ)

Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.

Kazuo Kamimura and Natsuo Sekikawa collection of shorts. Hardboiled themes.

Story revolves around a serenade, which is made up of three misfits, a beautiful stripper Hoshiko, pure and loving Joe and money lover Rei. They uncover a morphine smuggling route by mistake. Now a dangerous adventure awaits them...