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Strain (GN 3)

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Title: Strain
Volume: GN 3
Pages: 216
Distributor: Viz Media

Release date: 2000-04-05
Suggested retail price: $16.95

ISBN-10: 1569314691 1569314691
ISBN-13: 9781569314692 9781569314692

Description:
Set in the back streets of Malaysia, Strain follows the lives of Mayo, a ruthless assassin, and Shion, the teenage prostitute he takes under his wing. Together they battle a psychotic Japanese aristocrat obsessed with purifying his "strain" and thugs bent on ruling the Asian underworld.

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