Until Death Do Us Part (manga)

Until Death Do Us Part
Genre	Action, Adventure
Manga
Written by	Hiroshi Takashige (story) ; DOUBLE-S (art)
Published by	Square-Enix
Magazine	Young Gangan
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	December 2005 – Ongoing
Volumes	8

Until Death Do Us Part (死がふたりを分かつまで, Shi ga Futari wo Wakatsu made) is a manga that started its serialization on Young Gangan Magazine's December, 2005 issue. Its story is written by Hiroshi Takashige (たかしげ宙, Takashige Hiroshi) and the manga is drawn by DOUBLE-S. Currently, 8 volumes have been published.

Characters

Elements Network

Blade

Mamoru Hijikata (土方護, Hijikata Mamoru): He is the protagonist of the story. Although he is completely blind, he was once a master at swordplay. To compensate for Mamoru's lost vision, Ikawa has developed a device with an outer appearance of a pair of sunglasses, that projects directly onto Mamoru's retina a rendered first-person view of Mamoru's surroundings in the fashion of a wire-frame model. Having learned many real-combat sword-fighting techniques, and with the newly-gained "sight," he is able to engage in direct combat with his opponents.
Tooyama Haruka (遠山遥, Tooyama Haruka): She is the female leading character of the story. She possesses the ability to foresee the future, or more accurately, many possible future outcomes.
Ikawa (井川, Ikawa): Mamoru's teammate who mainly deals with the technical aspects of Blade's operations.

The Wall

Alpha (アルファ, Arufa): His real name is Jack Garvey (ジャック・ガービー, Jakku Gābī). Leader of the Elements Network's international anti-crime unit "The Wall". He has a noticeable scar on the left side of his face. Originally a memeber of the U.S. Army Special Forces, the Green Berets, he was later transferred to the British Army's SAS on an exchange program. Since then, he had served in the elite forces in France, Germany, Italy and a few other countries. He had been awarded a total of 7 medals. In fact, until 3 years agao, he had been active in CIFA, and was in command of its successful hostage rescue operation. After his dismissal, he seemed to have disappeared from the world stage altogether.
Bravo (ブラボー, Burabō)
Charlie (チャーリー, Chaarī)
Delta (デルタ, Deruta)
Echo (エコー, Ekō)
Foxtrot (フォックストロット, Fokkusutorotto)
Golf (ゴルフ, Gorufu)
Hotel
India (インディア, India)
Juliett (ジュリエット, Jyurietto): She specializes in infiltration and looks over Haruka in Sierra's absence. She seemed to harbor a personal grudge against Sierra, and the source of that was later revealed to be from her own tragic past.
Kilo (キロ, Kiro): He specializes in using knives and from an almost comical scene, we learned that he's Sierra's ex-husband.
Lima
Mike (マイク, Maiku)
November (ノベンバー, Nobenbā)
Oscar (オスカー, Osukā)
Papa (パパ, Papa): A big man with a mighty grip of 170 kg.
Quebec (ケベック, Kebekku)
Romeo
Sierra (シエラ, Shiera): Her real name is Serena (セリーナ, Serīna). She had a daughter with her ex-husband, Kilo, but her daughter was killed by a terrorist, which prompted her into joining The Wall. She is very protective of Haruka, often treating Haruka as if Haruka were her own daughter.
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee (ヤンキー, Yankī)
Zulu (ズール, Zūru)

Police

Teppei Genda (源田鉄平, Genda Teppei)
Masuda (升田, Masuda)
Horikawa (堀川, Horikawa)

The Republic of Garuboa

Edge Tours (エジー・トゥルス, Ejī Turusu)
Fang (牙（ファング）, Fangu)
Mister Wiseman: To the general public, he is Thomas Jefferson (トーマス・ジェファーソン, Tōmasu Jefāson), a former college professor and expert on crime, but he is actually a criminal under disguise and in the criminal world, he's best known as Mr. Wiseman, the man who taught Edge.

Organizations

Elements Network (エレメンツ・ネットワーク, Erementsu Nettowāku)

A self-defense unit consisting of crime victims and their families who exchange of information, and mobilize to intervene directly to "hunt criminals," a kind of vigilante conduct. Basically, information exchange, evaluation and monitoring of actual mobilization, and all other organizational activities can be done anonymously via the Internet, although willing parties may work directly with other members in curbing crime. Since the purpose of the organization is to prevent crime, killings of criminals are prohibited. However, it seems that the organization has plans of hiring criminals to deal with other criminals. Currently, the organization is only scarcely discussed about in some online communities.

Blade (ブレード, Burēdo): A team consisting of Mamoru and Igawa that deals with large-scale city crimes. However, since Mamoru's usually the only one fighting at the scene, the term Blade is more often used as Mamoru's codename.
The Wall (THE WALL（ザ・ウォール）, Za Uōru): An international anti-crime unit led by Alpha. Its members are codenamed according to the Phonetic Alphabet.

Plunder (強奪者（プランダー）, Purandā)

References

External links

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