Loose Senki: Old Boy (2025)

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Japanese: ルーズ戦記 オールドボーイ

English: Old Boy

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 8

Chapters: 79

Status: Finished

Published: 1996 to 1998

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery

Theme: Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Manga Action

Authors: Caribu, Marley (Story), Minegishi, Shinmei (Art)


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Ranked: #51702

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Popularity: #1042

Members: 18,973

Favorites: 259


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Loose Senki: Old Boy

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Ranked #5170Popularity #1042Members 18,973

MangaManga ActionCaribu, Marley (Story), Minegishi, Shinmei (Art)

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Volumes: /8

Chapters: /79

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Synopsis

Drugged and confused, Shinichi Gotou wakes up in a small room inside a private prison. Despite his pleadings, none of the guards will tell him who kidnapped him or why he is being held captive. As the days go by, his forced isolation slowly takes a toll on his sanity. He finds an outlet through training his mind and body for the day he will be able to wreak vengeance.

After 10 years, Shinichi is finally free. Once outside, he encounters a much changed world. His long imprisonment ripped him from society and kept him from having the normal life he desired. With nothing to lose, he begins his hunt for the one responsible. However, it seems that the person behind Shinichi's captivity is not done with him just yet, and thus begins a twisted game where only the winner survives.

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Background

In 2003 Loose Senki: Old Boy was adapted into a film Old Boy by the Korean director Park Chan-wook, with many plot points completely altered. The film won the Examiner's Special Grand Prix at the 57th Cannes Film Festival in 2004. In 2013, a remake of the same name was directed by the American director Spike Lee, but received mixed critical reception.

The series was published in English by Dark Horse Comics from July 18, 2006 to October 16, 2007, and in Brazil by NovaSampa Editora from January 2013 to September 2014.

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Gotou, Shinichi

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Kakinuma, Takaaki

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Eri

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Apr 13, 2013

steven90925

Recommended

A man finds himself imprisoned for a reason unknown to him for ten years before he is released. He keeps himself sane by acknowledging one logic of the situation - that he is still alive. With his past behind him and nothing to lose, his only goal is to find a man who has kept him imprisoned all this time.

The world of manga, much unlike its brother in the western culture (i.e. comics), is undoubtedly plagued with fictions that do no better than to establish a rather conventional story, a rather predictable set of characters, and art that is well refined but nothing reflective ...

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Mar 24, 2020

NosyMuggle

Mixed Feelings

Just to say: the Korean version of the movie is definitely better.

Old Boy is a manga that started with a great premise: a man was imprisoned for ten years by a mysterious person. He is then released and has to find out who did this to him and why.

It started really good. The ways he used to track the steps of the mysterious man were really innovative and cool. Nevertheless, while I was reading it, it seemed to me that the author started the story without an idea on how to end it, so he was just dragging the story ever further. It took 8 ...

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Mar 1, 2021

Curiouswanderer

Not Recommended

Preliminary (30/79 eps)

Yknow I really really wanted to like this old skool manga so much because I was looking for the damn movie everywhere and it wasn’t on Netflix and I heard a few anitubers talk about it. The opening were promising, with a man trying to find out why he was imprisoned by the mafia in an odd room and why he was set free? The man was actually treated nicely as well as the Mafia giving him 1000 yen. He then meets a girl from a noodle shop and the two hit off. That's where I began to lose interest in the story; I ...

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