The Thief Akikazu Inoue
The Thief Akikazu Inoue is a completed manga by Tezuka Osamu. Read it free on MangaPulse and MangaDex.
Seinen (and one Josei) One-shot compilation focusing on insincerity, revenge, and the two-faced nature of men.
Includes the following:
- The Record of Peter Kürten (ペーター・キュルテンの記録, Peter Kürten no Kiroku, ALT. ENG. - The Tale of Peter Kürten) - Manga biography on the infamous serial killer also known by the moniker "The Vampire of Düsseldorf". Peter Kürten, a former prisoner-of-war, forms an idealistic couple with his wife and is a devoted unionist at meetings. In actuality he is a sexually perverted serial killer nicknamed the Vampire of Düsseldorf who taunts the police with escalating murders. After one of the murders, the police force a fake confession from another man, causing Peter to angrily reveal the truth to his wife, who gives him up to the police. At trial it is revealed that Peter is actually a criminal with a history of incest, bestiality, arson, and murder. When his lawyer tries to defend him by claiming madness, Peter angrily exclaims that his actions are revenge against the bourgeois. Peter is executed by guillotine. (Tezuka based the story on the work of Shunsuke Tsurumi)
- Sensual Nights (もの憂げな夜, Monouge na Yoru) - A wealthy Japanese playboy visits Vietnam to seduce a woman who has supposedly stopped aging while waiting for her sweetheart who was taken away by soldiers. As he is in the middle of preparing to have sex with her, his contact tells him that the woman's man was taken away by the Japanese army during the Pacific War, causing a deep hatred of Japanese people in her. He panics, but recovers when the woman reacts by offering him her body. When she fights back against his attempts at intimacy, he tells her that her lover is likely dead and forces himself on her. The man then sees a sight of a wrinkled old woman that startles him so much he jumps out of the window. The woman he had seduced was actually the daughter of the unaging woman and her sweetheart, and his contact was her fiancé.
- Lord Iechika Mogami (最上殿始末, Mogami-dono Shimatsu) - Piipii, a meager farmer, dreams of being a samurai so he can support his wife and their four children. One day he is employed by a lord to be his double, and Piipii's family is secretly killed. Piipii trains to be a lord, grooming and dressing himself to be the spitting image of the lord. As a test, the lord tells him to give the order to open the castle gates. Piipii rides back to visit his fam
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The Thief Akikazu Inoue is completed, ending at chapter 5.
Who wrote The Thief Akikazu Inoue?
The Thief Akikazu Inoue is written by Tezuka Osamu.