【CODE:BREAKER】A trailblazing dark fantasy manga from Kamijyo Akimine!!

2022-06-27

The story of CODE:BREAKER

CODE:BREAKER (stylized as CØDE:BREAKER) is a dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kamijyo Akimine. The original manga was serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine by Kodansha, from June 2008 to July 2013 with a total of 26 volumes.
CODE:BREAKER’s 13-episode anime adaptation was produced by studio Kinema Citrus and began airing from October to December 2012. Following the success of anime series, 3 episodes of OVA was later produced. Then in 2014, the anime series was licensed by Funimation for its English release in North America.
Trailer for CODE:BREAKER anime adaptation by Kinema Citrus
CØDE:BREAKER (Code:Breaker)

An unfortunate witness to a peculiar incident......

It was a rainy night and 16-year-old Sakurakouji Sakura was on a bus ride home from school. She was lost in thoughts gazing out the window, when suddenly the night lighted up with flame of flashing blue. In a short moment when the bus passed by, Sakura could see within the flame was people burning, and a mysterious young boy at the heart of it all.
The next morning, Sakura was interrupted on her way by one of her schoolmates. He confessed his feeling for Sakura, stating that he liked how fragile, delicate and pure she was. Sakura turned down the boy, saying that what he liked was not her “real self” at all.
Their conversation was interrupted by cement bags falling down from a nearby construction site. Sakura showed impressive feat of strength by catching all of the heavy bags with her bare hands and kept both of them from being injured. Despite her frail figure, Sakura was actually an expert in martial arts and combat, holding 3rd Dan in Aikido and 4th Dan in Judo.
After that, Sakura left but she didn’t go to school. Instead, Sakura went to the place where she witnessed that strange blue flame from the night before. There were many people gathering at the site. However, all of the onlookers said that it was actually just a small fire and nobody was hurt.
Sakura was confused and rushed through the crowd. She did not find anything except the trace of a small fire, neither blood stain nor bodies were found at the scene.
When she confronted the police man in charge, stating that she had seen people burnt yesterday, he reassured Sakura that there was no casualty from this incident. Having no evidence to back up her claim, Sakura had no choice but leaving the scene and going back to school.
As first period started, a new student was introduced to Sakura’s class. The new guy was a charming young student named Oogami Rei. He was a month late to school because he just came back from oversea.
When Sakura looked up, she recognized straight away that this was the boy she saw the night before in the midst of the blue flame.
Keeping that fact to herself, Sakura closely monitored Rei from afar. Rei appeared to be a normal and friendly boy, bonding with his classmates right from the get go. However, there was one detail about him that Sakura found strange – Rei was wearing a black glove on his left hand.
Sakura asked to speak with Rei alone on the rooftop and accused him of the murder incident that she witnessed. The glove on his left hand was probably to cover his wound from the flame.
Rei calmly removed his glove, showing an uninjured hand and started explaining. The glove was simply a talisman to prevent his hand from getting hurt due to past incident, and him being at the park the night before was just for a part-time job. Without no further proof, Sakura had to give up.
CØDE:BREAKER (Code:Breaker)

God’s great judgment!

The next day after school, Sakura went back to the park where the murder happened. This time not to investigate, but to take care of a stray dog she found living there. The dog belonged to a homeless person, who was killed by local gangsters a month before. Since then, Sakura has been taking care of the dog and brought him food on her way home from school.
On the other side of the park, Sakura heard the sound of a fight. The local gangsters were beating up the homeless people. The gangsters belonged to a group named “G-Falcon” and was questioning the homeless people about their friends who went missing from the night before.
Sakura fearlessly rushed in to protect the homeless people. She beat up two of the gangsters before being tased and subdued.
She was being tied up while a mysterious voice spoke from behind them. When they all turned to see who it was, Rei was there.
Before any of them could react, Rei removed his glove and grabbed one of the gangsters. “Burn to ashes”, as Rei muttered those words, one of the gangsters was burned to crisp by flame of blue. Rei then turned toward the rest of the thugs; his left hand was burning in the blue flame.
“Judged by the law” or “Die right here”. Those were the only two options that Rei gave them and it was the latter that they chose......
How will the fight turn out? What mysteries await Sakura as she learns more about Rei?
Find out in the next chapters of CODE:BREAKER!
CØDE:BREAKER (Code:Breaker)

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