Tsumi to Batsu

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic Crime and Punishment, reworked for younger readers. The setting is St. Petersburg in Czarist Russia, in the days just prior to the Russian Revolution. Rascalnikov is a child from a poor family. He murders an old lady who is a loan shark and flees with her valuables. Judge Polifili, who has been assigned to the case, immediately suspects Rascalnikov because he had recently submitted an essay in a magazine claiming that "the world is divided into tho...

Tsumi to Batsu was published digitally in English as Crime and Punishment in 2015 as part of Digital Manga Publishing's Digital Manga Guild initiative. The publisher later released a revised edition. Before this, it had been published by Japan Times, which released a bilingual Japanese/English editi...