Mujina into the Deep, Vol. 5

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.

Ubume and her ragtag found family are closing in on the dark secrets behind a sex trafficking ring that serviced elite technocrats—secrets that lie at the center of her own mysterious past. Exposing the corruption festering at the heart of society is a worthy retirement goal for Ubume, but is she really ready for their investigation to bring her nightmares into focus?

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, Goodnight Punpun, Downfall, and Dead Dead Demon's Demon's Dedede Destruction also available from VIZ Media.