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Rage against hypocrisy, injustice, exploitation, and the wrongs done to a child who grew into a righteous killer....Complete in three volumes, \u003ci\u003eSearch and Destroy\u003c\/i\u003e transplants the vengeful action of \u003ci\u003eDororo\u003c\/i\u003e from feudal Japan into a dystopian future where mercenary robots known as \"creatures\" serve the human elite and victimize the city's scrabbling, desperate masses. The violent death of one of these creatures connects an orphaned thief named Doro with a mysterious girl in a stinking animal hide that conceals deadly cybernetic implants. Who is this mysterious girl? How is she killing, one by one, the city's most twisted and powerful creatures?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally serialized from 2019-2021 in the Japanese manga monthly \u003ci\u003eTezuComi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSearch and Destroy\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly-crafted thriller about an outsider looking for meaning and vengeance in the unjust world that took everything away from her. Kaneko populates a stunning, high-contrast setting that echoes postwar Cuba as much as Tokyo with an unforgettable cast of scrappy heroes and skin-crawling monsters on a nonstop ride full of action and suspense. This authorized retelling updates the rebellious '60s spirit of the original \u003ci\u003eDororo\u003c\/i\u003e to the equally tumultuous 2020s, mixing Tezuka's signature dark yet playful storytelling sense with Kaneko's own wide range of influences which include Western cartoonists like Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns as well as filmmakers like David Lynch. 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A fearsome killer, her body more machine than flesh, she has learned the truth: Her human body parts were bartered away when she was a baby, and what remained was left for dead. Filled with incandescent rage, Hyaku embarks on a vengeful rampage to dismantle the monsters who took her apart and violently reclaim what she has lost. But as she replaces her cybernetic implants with the flesh and blood she has been denied, a new emotion sets in: fear. Fear that her human body will be too weak to finish what she started -- and fear of what she might learn next about her own past. Will her anger and ruthlessness be enough to propel her to the final showdown? 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