Freesia

Freesia ran from 2001 to 2009 in twelve volumes. It imagines a Japan stuck in a vague, grinding war, where a new law lets the families of murder victims pay for legally sanctioned revenge: hire a licensed agent, and the killing is permitted. The lead, Kano, is one such agent, a damaged man who keeps slipping between the job in front of him and memories that may not be real. Matsumoto draws in a jittery, scratchy line that makes the whole world feel feverish. It is confusing on purpose, dense, and unsettling. There is no official English edition, so legal copies mean the Japanese or French volumes.