Manga stories are like every reading materiel - from time to time there are great works to be read but majority tend to be good art but weird story or vice versa.

This one falls into the category of good art but weird story. While main character is rather androgynous he is also quite a psychopath. Known as a master criminal Zen he sows mayhem around him and kills or destroys everything that finds itself on its path.

So when accidental kidnapping starts to unravel Zen's personal history, dark parts of countries past start to surface.

In general story is little bit too gothic/depressive (constant "destroy your world to come out free"?!?) for my taste. Way story goes, some weird romance budding between Zen and almost everyone else (due to his out of this world beauty) is rather disconcerting. I think story itself might be aimed to younger audience. For me (old man as I am :)) everything seems a little bit too far fetched.

Art is pretty good. again this is one of those mangas with extremely lanky characters. Again not exactly my cup of tea but close ups and environment look pretty good.

Recommended to fans of political thrillers but keep in mind entire look and feel is rather depressive/gothic - so if you like this all the better for you :) ( )

Artwork was beautiful, however the story puzzled me. Half of the time I was like," Wtf is going on?" The conversation is pretty bad too, sadly. 2.5 stars. ( )

Most pressingly: Why is this shojo? Shojo is about high school, love and/or magical girls. This is about I guy who goes around killing and destroying everything. He might not be human?
Even after reading the whole book I'm not sure what it's about and I might not read the other books. ( )

I found this volume hard to follow - the dialogue was not well written, the character of Zen I found rather annoying. The characters a bit flat, and I really don't understand the concept of "Evil" in this book. I'm wondering if it is a bad translation. ( )