Heat (manga)
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HEAT -灼熱- (HIITO -SHAKUNETSU-) (Heat -incandescence-) |
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Genre | Seinen |
Manga | |
Authored by | Buronson |
Publisher | Shogakukan |
Serialized in | Big Comic Superior |
Original run | 1999 – 2004 |
No. of volumes | 17 |
Heat is a manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura, and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. It was serialized in Big Comic Superior from 1999 to 2004. Heat was also adapted into a live action movie in 2004 featuring Yoshihiko Hakamada, Takeshi Yoshioka and Hakuryu as main actors.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Heat is a crime story featuring a young man named Tatsumi Karasawa who suddenly rises in the criminal world of Shinjuku, Tokyo, and becomes the leader of a group of amateurs who show no reluctance to face police and gangs alike. His success in the Tokyo underground makes a chief and a yakuza boss plot a conspiracy to eliminate him.