Gangsta.

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English: Gangsta.

Japanese: GANGSTA.

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Jan 21, 2011 to ?

Genres: Action, Drama, Seinen

Authors: Kohske (Story & Art)

Serialization: Comic@Bunch

Statistics

Score: 8.10¹ (scored by 13,639 users)

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Ranked: #510²

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Popularity: #218

Members: 46,799

Favorites: 2,028

8.10

Ranked #510Popularity #218Members 46,799

MangaComic@BunchKohske (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

In the crime-ridden city of Ergastulum, there exists a group of humans with super strength and speed dubbed "twilights." These twilights define the city with their constant tension with normal humans, and powerful factions of the town—the Corsica Family, the Monroe Family, the Cristiano Family, and the Paulklee Guild—use them as a means to maintain the fragile balance that exists within the city.

Enter the charming human Worick Arcangelo and the deaf twilight Nicolas Brown, two long-time friends and business partners of the neutral group "The Handymen." Working as muscle-for-hire, they are willing to take almost any job asked of them in order to make ends meet. One day, they find themselves receiving a seemingly regular job from the police: kill a rival pimp and his prostitute. However, this job is not all that it seems, as it takes the pair down a dangerous path and triggers events that could change the very framework of Ergastulum forever.

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Background

Gangsta. has been published in English by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint since February 18, 2014; in French by Glénat since January 2014; in Brazil by Jbc since October 2015; in Polish by Waneko since February 2016; and in Spanish by Milky Way Ediciones since October 2017.

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Related Manga

Prequel:	Postman
Spin-off:	Gangsta:Cursed.: EP_Marco Adriano
Adaptation:	Gangsta.

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Characters

Brown, Nicolas

Main

Arcangelo, Worick

Main

Benedetto, Alex

Main

Doug

Supporting

Cristiano Amodio, Loretta

Supporting

Ginger

Supporting

Adriano, Marco

Supporting

Delico

Supporting

Nina

Supporting

Paulklee, Gina

Supporting

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Aug 23, 2014

29 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

Meshi_chan (All reviews)

64 people found this review helpful

Okay, let me just get this started. I just read it couple weeks ago, and I fell in love instantly.

Story : Gangsta tells you about two 'handymen' who lives in dysfunctional city of Ergastulum where crimes, thieves, prostitutes, mobsters, and corrupted cops are everywhere. Worrick, an easy-going freelance gangster and Nic, a deaf, aloof also a freelance gangster, together they sometimes got hired for doing 'dirty' work people normally won't do. And then the plot develops. From Worrick and Nic's daily life as 'handymen', some big problems began to show up. The story caught my interest, and I was surprised how interesting the story is read more

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Dec 16, 2012

18 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

SassyxandxGeeky (All reviews)

59 people found this review helpful

Gangsta is your overall enjoyable manga.

The story involves around two guys that work for an assassination organization, it's nothing original, but what is now and days? Besides, Kosuke adds in her own plot twists here and there to keep the reader interested.

In the story, the two main male characters Nicolas and Warrick, have dark pasts, which are revealed bit by bit, but not all at once and they have side jobs that they do extra to get by in their town of crime and mafias. Then there's Alex, who is trying to make her life right, but is psychologically haunted and disturbed by read more

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Jun 8, 2015

3 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 3

TheAzureSky (All reviews)

57 people found this review helpful

- Unbearably cliché and boring.
- Feels like it was written by a teenager by the way it treats sex and violence.
- Extremely inappropriate clashing of tones between violence and humor.
- A chore to read.

★☆☆☆

I saw a promotional image for the upcoming anime. It showed two tough guys and an attractive woman. Then I read up a description and thought it sounded kinda cool. But it turns out to be just so fucking cliché and boring.

I gave it 3 chapters. I know first episodes, first scenes, or first chapters can be shaky because the creator is trying to find their pace. But I read more

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Mar 2, 2015

34 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

Marthgun (All reviews)

29 people found this review helpful

This manga has defeated me and i will stop reading it now. I'm not very good with depressing material, but the intensity and mood this sets is unlike anything i've ever seen or read.

The story is about two middle aged friends who live in a crime infested city filled with abnormal humans, some of which are very powerful. Not shounen type powerful, but very strong / hard to kill. The focus is on the two main characters who do odd jobs for the local mafia type gangs, from bodyguards, to delivering packages. Early they meet a prostitute doing tricks on the street for her pimp and they bring her in as a secretary.

There aren't time warps or ancient dragons, its just raw ghetto style depravity all around them. It sets an incredibly bleak tone which just ramps all they way up the more your read. There's a bit of politics, a bit of action, a bit of SoL, a bit of almost everything, but there's alot of raw intensity and suspense that tries to strangle you after every page you turn. It's so suffocating, that it's masterful.

The art is bleak, with hard lines and minimal background, but it works incredibly well with the story. It flows so well that thinking back, its like i was watching an anime or movie.

The characters are very interesting and deep, with background stories that get told often but quickly and succinctly, and they're told in clever ways so that it doesn't feel forced out of nowhere. It's just like the right time for you to learn about certain things.

And that leads me to the pace, probably the best I've ever seen for what the story is. I don't see how it could be done better. It's like a perfect ramp that at chapter 34 continues to peak steadily.

And finally, if you looked at my individual scores, you'll see I rated the enjoyment at a 3. B/c i didn't enjoy this at all, i thought i was going to have a heart attack. It's so bleak, brutal and unflinching in its cruelty and realism, its extreme in its believability. There isn't much suspension of disbelief here, it catches you quickly and you believe it, which is why it has an incredible impact, a disturbing impact. Obviously some people are going to love this, but the cup is just too heavy to lift to my lips.

I strongly recommend it if you are into hardcore mafia type stories. But let me leave off with saying that, this isn't gore porn or death smut and i cringe away from it b/c its extreme in the content, i had to put it away because of the setting and mood it creates. It's just so heavy and haunting, i'm sure i'll be back, but not for quite awhile, probably until i hear it ends. And I'm sure i'll be dreading reading the conclusion.

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