Heat (manga)

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Heat
Cover of Heat Manga Vol. 1
HEAT -灼熱- (HIITO -SHAKUNETSU-)
(Heat -incandescence-)
Genre Seinen
Manga
Authored by Buronson
Publisher Shogakukan
Serialized in Big Comic Superior
Original run 19992004
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.


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