Just kidding this story is nowhere near close to good. With that said, if you enjoy a little mindless carnage (I know I do), you shouldn't be disappointed.ĭokuro is a mature character study about the dehumanizing effects a negative influence has on the person, like narcotics an intrusive doctrine can offer greatness and salvation- KILLER GRANNIES! Speaking of which, a detective gets introduced and the manga seems to be building up to a final clash between him and the hero, but it never happens. The author also stinks at writing endings They often feel too easy, rushed and anti-climactic. As usual, there's little plot orĬharacter development to find The hero goes from one fighting set-piece to another with little reason (including the author's favorite setting, a maximum-security prison), and he's pretty much an invincible force-of-nature the whole way through, so there's little tension. With Saruwatari, you come for the spectacle, not the story. Dokuro is no exception, and its only differentiating factors are an evil religious organization and the hero's gimmicky weapon - a hook-on-a-wire that results in many scenes of decapitation, hanging, lips getting torn off and faces stripped off skulls. When you pick up a Tetsuya Saruwatari manga, you know what you're going to get: a protagonist who looks like Riki-Oh, a sibling or childhood rival, cartoonishly sadistic villains and absurdly violent martial arts fights rendered with excruciating anatomical detail (Seriously, the guy must have had anatomy textbooks off-hand while drawing). So this dark and impressive badass guy, after betraying the sept, gets down to business kicking their ass and unleashing his fury against the deadly opponents sent to stop his unparalleled revenge. Takeo finds the answer in the vengeance, and in eradicating that same evil from which he has born. He's a man hunter, whose childhood has been stolen and molded after his tormentors, but when the road of forgiveness is precluded to him what can be left to a man to obtain the redemption? The main character is their strongest assassin, lended to them by his fanatic mother when he was a child, and now became a ruthless killing machine whose fists and feet cause serious damage to his adversaries, and whose weapon of choice is a special cutting wire with which grabs and scorch the opponents. EditSynopsis The story is set in a dystopian near future where the Japan society is experiencing a crime rampage and in which a powerful and secret religious organization, with mysterious goals, is acting as an invisible hand behind the scenes.