Crime and Punishment (DMP)

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Crime and Punishment (DMG)

English Title: Crime and Punishment
Japanese Title: 罪と罰
Publication Date: 2015
Publisher: DMP
No. of Volumes: 1
In Print: ✔
Digital: ✔

From the Publisher

In Russia, on the eve of the revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikovs’s own published essay – suggesting that people who are “extra-ordinary” are above such things as “right” and “wrong” – draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry … or his own guilty conscience?

What you should know

Crime and Punishment was released in 2015 as part of DMP’s Digital Manga Guild initiative as as a digital-only release. It is available for legal download on the emanga.com website in a variety of popular reading formats (ePub, CBR/CBZ, PDF, etc.).

In 2015 a print edition was also successfully funded as part of the Kickstarter campaign to publish Storm Fairy in English. In total, 625 backers pledged $38,142 (of $14,200 goal) and, after the first stretch goals to not only reprint Uncio (at $26,000) but actually re-publish it using higher quality colouring (at $27,000) and paper were both met, the print edition (to replace the digital-only edition) of Crime and Punishment was secured as the second stretch goal once the campaign reached the $32,500 mark.

Although this is actually the second time Crime and Punishment has been published in English, the DMP edition marks the first time it has been published in North America. It is a welcome replacement for the long out-of-print and nearly impossible to find bilingual edition that was released by the Japan Times in 1990.