Volume 1 of Akira Suga's ``Phoenix Killer'' was released today, February 20th.
Asuka Miyamoto, who works as an insurance salesman in Tokyo, left his hometown where he felt stuck and was steadily building a career in Tokyo. One day, Asuka is called back to his hometown by his grandfather Shigeru and learns that something is wrong at his family's shrine. His older brother Soichi, who was inheriting the house, has disappeared, and a suspicious real estate agent is trying to force him to take over the religious corporation. While searching for a countermeasure with Juzo Agawa, a student of his grandfather, Asuka learns of the existence of a strange lost festival called "Phoenix Killer"... The work is currently being serialized in Monthly Afternoon (Kodansha).
