Heavy Metal Warrior Xenon | pg by Masaomi Kanzaki
Heavy Metal Warrior Xenon | pg by Masaomi Kanzaki
Heavy Metal Warrior Xenon a.k.a. Bio Diver Xenon
A pioneer of the Cyber-punk genre written and illustrated by Masaomi Kanzaki.
Originally published by Shogakukan(1986) and reprinted by Kodansha (2000)
Translated in English (Viz, 1992), French, German ...
Synopsis
Asuka Kanō is a passenger on Neo-Tokyo Airlines Flight 234 from Hokkaido to Tokyo , when it crashes off the coast of Sanriku and all 382 passengers die ! Several months later, Asuka returns with amnesia and the only thing he remembers is being among the passengers but he doesn't know how he survived. Pursued by a secret criminal and terrorist organization named 'Red Sea', he discovers that his body has been largely cybernetized using a mysterious alloy called Xenon 3 ...
In 2006, Tokuma Shoten's seinen magazine; Monthly Comic Ryū, published a sequel called Xenon -199X R but this has yet to be translated