Mujina into the Deep, Vol. 4

No life but the one you make, no rights but the ones you take!

In the near future, human rights aren’t guaranteed, but they are for sale. Without your rights, you’re just a mujina, with no place to call your own and no laws to protect you. But if the laws don’t apply to you, you can do anything you want. You just need the skills to back it up. And if you’re really good, you can really make a killing.

There are two main rules for being an assassin, and Ubume has always followed them well—don’t let emotions get in the way, and don’t lose. But ever since she got caught up in Juno and Terumi’s weird little found family, she’s felt herself slipping. Maybe she’s not cut out to be a soulless killing machine anymore. Maybe it’s time for her to take her soul back.

Inio Asano, a bona fide earthling, was born in Ibaraki, Japan, in 1980. In 2001, his short story “Uchu kara Konnichiwa” (Hello from Outer Space) won the first Sunday GX Rookie Prize. Later, GX published his series Subarashii Sekai, available in English from VIZ Media as What a Wonderful World! His other works include Hikari no Machi (City of Light), Nijigahara Holograph, and Umibe no Onna no Ko (A Girl on the Shore), as well as solanin and Goodnight Punpun, available from VIZ Media. In 2024, his award-winning series Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, also available from VIZ Media, was adapted into an animated film.