A doctor is forced to become an avenging assassin upon waking up in a new world.
Titan manga was kind enough to send me a review copy prior to the official release! The physical volume will be available to Canadians September 15th.
You can check out a sample of this series for yourself below!
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Official Synopsis (Titan Manga)
A brilliant surgeon meets a tragic end during an earthquake while operating on his only sibling. Reborn into a mysterious otherworld as a deadly assassin, he must reconcile his past vocation with a new, morally fraught existence as a “revenger.” Just as he contemplates his shattered identity, a girl who mirrors his sister appears before him – an uncanny echo that pulls him into a labyrinth of fate, duty, and supernatural suspense.
My thoughts on this volume (Spoilers!)
Just as Chisato was finally about to save his sister’s life, he was told all his effort was for nothing! This manga is more on the dark and hopeless side, and that’s made clear right from the first chapter. After dedicating his life to studying medicine so that he could one day save his sister, Chisato suddenly wakes up in another world where medicine is all but useless.
Throughout the volume we see a few hopeless stories play out—even when one of Chisato’s many missions are successfully completed, the results are not always what the clients had hoped for. You see, Chisato works as an “avenger”—someone who takes revenge on behalf of others. He’s very good at his job, putting his medical knowledge to use by performing autopsies to investigate suspicious deaths, but the nature of the job is rather depressing.
His job is never glamorized, nor does he necessarily seem to enjoy doing it. He charges a high fee to investigate deaths, and the fees can increase depending on what clients want him to do once the autopsies have been completed. Compared to similar isekai stories where the main character sees avenging others as their calling, Chisato sees it plainly as his job. If the client doesn’t pay, he simply won’t act. While this can make him seem cold to some, this is his job now—he needs to make money to survive.
Amongst all the bleakness, there is a glimmer of hope to be found: a young girl who shares a shocking resemblance to Chisato’s younger sister, left behind in his previous world. She is a bit of a mystery, but it’s clear that she’s currently the only thing that brings meaning to Chisato’s life. We get glimpses of their day to day throughout the volume, with them talking about things like what they’ll eat for supper while in-between cases.
I wonder if she’s actually older than she appears to be, as she also works as his assistant while on the job. She seems to have no problem listening to Chisato ponder about things like whether a vampire sucked all the blood out of a victim’s neck—something that a regular girl surely would be unable to do.
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