Sagawa San (2000) Manga - True Crime Manga Written by Killer
The details of the crime are horrific. Sagawa was arrested attempting to dispose of the remains in the Bois de Boulogne. However, a legal anomaly that reads like a Kafkaesque nightmare followed. Deemed legally insane and therefore unfit to stand trial in France, he was committed to a mental institution. Years later, he was deported to Japan. In a stunning miscarriage of justice, Japanese prosecutors found they could not charge him because the French documents were sealed, and his involuntary commitment in France could not be used as a basis for commitment in Japan without a new trial—a trial that could not happen because he had already been deemed unfit. Issei Sagawa Manga English Read
Finding the manga to read in English is difficult because it was never officially licensed for Western distribution due to its extreme content. Sagawa San (2000) Manga - True Crime Manga
This is the most sought-after and controversial item. In 1997, Sagawa wrote and drew a 16-page manga titled Manga of the Dead for the magazine Young Sunday . It depicts his version of the 1981 murder. The art is crude, amateurish, but chillingly matter-of-fact. He includes dialogue, thought bubbles, and explicit panels of the act. Deemed legally insane and therefore unfit to stand
Consequently, in 1986, Issei Sagawa walked free.