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Kazuo Koike Interview

posted on 2006-03-08 15:07 EST by Christopher Macdonald

Dark Horse has posted an interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of manga such as Crying Freeman, Lady Snowblood and Lone Wolf and Club.

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