Satsurikuhime

A manga about a boy who has to control his childhood friend’s murderous impulses to take down other serial killers.

The concept of a killer who hunts other killers has been done before. That said, I enjoyed the dynamic between the boy Ouji and the girl Ru. Ru is in love with Ouji and will get the urge to murder anyone she get’s annoyed with. Ouji himself always ends up getting attacked or beat up by the other killers but usually refuses to resort to using violence only as a last resort. I liked how even in the face of some truly wretched killers he would try and see if they could be redeemable before letting Ru slice them up with her razor nails.

The series was canceled early and unfortunately there is only a single volume to read. A shame because I would have liked read a little more of this.

~dakazu