is a Japanese

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is ...

series written by

Kazuo Koike was a prolific Japanese manga writer ( gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful ''seinen'' manga, notably ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (with Goseki Kojima, 1970–6), '' Lady Snowblood'' ...

and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. It was serialized in

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics ( manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the ...

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

Big Comic Spirits is a weekly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. The first issue was published on October 14, 1980. Food, sports, romance and business are recurring themes in the magazine, and the stories often question conventional va ...

'' from 1982 to 1986. A 5-episode

original video animation , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA ...

(OVA) adaptation produced by Madhouse and Magic Bus and directed by Toshio Takeuchi was released from July 1986 to August 1988.

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Manga

Written by

and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, ''Wounded Man'' was serialized in

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

'' from 1982 to 1986. Shogakukan collected its chapters in eleven ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

'' volumes.

ComicsOne ComicsOne Corp. was an American distributor of Asian Comics (manga, manhwa, and manhua), established in 1999. ComicsOne was based in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. ComicsOne also served as the distributor for videos and mer ...

published the manga in English in 9 volumes.

OVA

A 5-episode

(OVA) adaptation, produced by Madhouse and Magic Bus, was released from July 5, 1986, to August 25, 1988. It was directed by (#1) and

Satoshi Dezaki is an anime director, producer, and screenwriter. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan North High School, he attended Hosei University. His younger brother was the late anime director Osamu Dezaki. Brief history Dezaki was born in Tokyo, J ...

(#4–5), written by Kazumi Koide and the music was composed by Norimasa Yamanaka.

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* {{Magic Bus ComicsOne titles Madhouse (company) Magic Bus (studio) Ryoichi Ikegami Seinen manga Shogakukan manga

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Manga

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