is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by

Kei Sanbe is a Japanese manga artist born in Tomakomai, Hokkaido and raised in Chiba Prefecture. He has formerly worked under the pseudonym . He is married to illustrator . Sanbe was an honorable mention in the 1990 40th Tezuka Award and a semi-final winn ...

. The manga is licensed in English by

CMX Manga CMX was an imprint of DC Comics, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. It was DC's line of manga translations. CMX was known for its censored release of ''Tenjho Tenge'' and the print version of Fred Gallagher's ''Megatokyo'' web manga seri ...

. The manga is licensed for a French-language release by Vegetal Soleil.

Characters

*Garrincha is the feared inquisitor of Neo Arsen. He tries to convert heretics to the Arsenal religion. *Leonedus is a loyal friend of Garrincha. *Capria is a nun who joins the group. *Socrates is the healer and doctor of the group. *Sabati is an assassin who betrayed Arsenal to join Materia, a heretic sect. She attempts to assassinate Leonedus, her childhood friend.

Manga

Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...

has released four ''

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'' volumes of the manga between March 2001 and November 2002.

released the four '' bound volumes'' of the manga between September 1, 2005, and May 1, 2006.

Volume listing

Reception

Mania.com's Jarred Pine criticises the manga on relying too much on " flashy violence rather than really exploring the conflicts of the heretic

inquisitions The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, conducting trials of suspected heretics. Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, ...

References

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