manga series · Japan

1998 to 2001

Created by
Hideo Yamamoto

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Cover of Ichi the Killer

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Ichi the Killer.

殺し屋1

Ichi the Killer (Japanese: 殺し屋1, Hepburn: Koroshiya Ichi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. A first series, titled Ichi, was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday in 1993; Ichi the Killer was serialized in the same magazine from 1998 to 2001, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. The series revolves around Ichi, a psychologically troubled killing machine, and his confrontation with the yakuza of Kabukichō, Shinjuku.

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Type
manga series
Country
Japan
Published
1998 to 2001
Appeared in
Weekly Young Sunday
Language
Japanese

Run

In print
The story

Ichi the Killer, in three panels

  1. 1998. Ichi the Killer begins in Japan.

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    Cover of Ichi the Killer
  2. Also by Hideo Yamamoto

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