The Guin Saga

In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul has overrun its elegant neighbor, Parros. The lost priest kingdom's surviving royalty, the young twins Rinda and Remus, hide in a forest in the forbidding wild marshes. There they are saved by a mysterious creature with a man's body and a leopard's head, who has emerged from a deep sleep and remembers only his name. Guin. (Source: Vertical Inc.)

Guin Saga is the longest-continuing single-writer's work in the world with a total circulation exceeding 33 million worldwide. The series has inspired many other Japanese fantasy works such as Kentarou Miura's Berserk or Aquaplus' Utawarerumono. Following her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in 2007, ...