Suzuki Just Wants a Quiet Life - Recommendations

• Vol: 4; Ch: 15
• 1972 - 1973

A story of pure vengeance, Lady Snowblood tells the tale of a daughter born of a singular purpose, to avenge the death of her family at the hands of a gang of thugs, a purpose woven into her soul from the time of her gestation.

• Ch: 89+
• 2021 - ?

Haegu, a proficient and merciless hitwoman, executes a man in front of his own daughter and takes the child under her wing. She decides to name her Mian, the word for "sorry" in Korean, and gives her one mission: "Kill me when you can." From that moment on, Mian decides that she will do this by choking Haegu with feigned love and emotionally manipulating her into submission. But as Mian grows into an adult, she's thrown into confusion as what was supposed to be pure revenge turns into lust... and possibly real love. Meanwhile, Haegu grapples with her own feelings for Mian while continuing to carry out life-threatening missions. Can Haegu and Mian ever learn to truly love each other, or are they doomed to drown in their toxic cycle of violence and revenge?

• Vol: 12; Ch: 81
• 2003 - 2009

Freesia is set in an alternative Japanese society that is at war, and has passed a law legalizing retaliatory killings. If somebody kills your loved one, you are legally sanctioned to kill, or hire someone to kill, the victimizer. The manga is set around a character who works for a firm that specializes in these retaliatory killings.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 71
• 2009 - 2013

"If you can get 5 million yen for killing a person, what would you do?" A beautiful woman asks Shiki, a part-time lecturer, that question on their first meeting. Shiki answers "If it's an evil person...," mistaking this for a joke. But then the woman points out the target...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 1966

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks the Americans, "Who are you to talk about justice when you massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki, in the firebombing of Tokyo? Was that what you call justice?"

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2014

Asato Minami has a "unique constitution." He senses the lingering thoughts of murder victims, and experiences the circumstances under which they died with his own body in a reaction similar to stigmata. This proves useful in solving difficult cases with the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigations Unit Six. Asato's partner is the reserved Superintendent Kuroiwa Hiroto, rising through the MPD ranks despite doubting his own abilities.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 16
• 2019 - 2020

• Vol: 14; Ch: 73
• 2009 - 2015

Alice is a high school student who faces bullying at school and abuse at home by her uncle. One day, she witnesses her uncle being killed by an assassin called "Arachnid." Thinking that she'll be killed next, Alice has no choice but to fight back. Soon after, she wakes up at Arachnid's house, and he takes her in as his deadly apprentice.

• Vol: 1+
• 2023 - ?

A young assassin girl armed with a katana is hunting down her targets in a busy metropolitan city named Tsukumo.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2010

Ukiyo-e painter Utamaro Kitagawa is convinced by an associate to accept a commision from The Crimson Tayuu of Tourian, a courtesan who is known far and wide for her incomparable beauty. Feeling that he has captured the courtesan's beauty and soul in his painting, he declares the portrait of her his magnum opus. She is also enthralled by it, but the painting begins to take on an unsettling mind of its own, seemingly changing with every bad deed she commits. Is she imagining it, or has she been cursed by the painter's brush?