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[[File:freesia_9516.jpg|frame|Hiroshi Kano]]
'''''Freesia''''' is a twelve-volume manga series (adapted into a 2007 live-action movie) drawn by [[Jiro Matsumoto]] between 2003 and 2009. Set in an [[Alternate History]] Japan, rampant crime and dwindling resources due to a war with another nation led the government to passing the ''Vengeance Act'' to keep prisons from overfilling. As a consequence, instead of going to prison, victims of a crime can legally try to kill the perpetrator, or enlist the help of a proxy agency to have their ''enforcers'' do it for them. The target can also enlist the help of ''bodyguards'' to help defend themselves (in the event that the target can't find/afford any, the government provides bodyguards for him).
The story starts with the main character Hiroshi Kano applying for a job as an enforcer for one of the best proxy agencies. Kano has a special ability of being able to "disappear" by blending into his environment so well others literally [[Invisibility|can't notice him]]. He is also a very mentally unstable military veteran. Together with [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] rookie Yamada and somewhat agressive mentor Mizoguchi, Kano begins his life as an enforcer...
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Hisae (the female bodyguard protecting Terajima and Ide)▼
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: {{spoiler|Kano's girlfriend died somewhere in the middle of the story, and he never noticed it until authorities had to remove the decaying body.}}
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Government-appointed bodyguards are very easy to bribe. Yamada doesn't like that at all.
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* [[Invisibility]]: Kano can blend into virtually ''any'' surrounding. How effective it is also depends on his mental state.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Yamada, after a few missions on the field.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: Matsumoto loves this trope, and his art style adds to the insanity. Have fun trying to pick apart what's real and what's not.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Yamada.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: {{spoiler|Mizoguchi}}. Kano slides back and forth throughout the story.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Pretty cynical, but doesn't go all the way.
▲* [[The Alcoholic]]: Hisae (the female bodyguard protecting Terajima and Ide)
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: We see events happening mainly through Kano's eyes, which makes ''us'' prone to his hallucinations.
* [[Villain Episode]]: In Terajima's story arc, we get to see a proxy enforcement from the target's side.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Yamada at the start of the story. Goes to [[Knight in Sour Armor]] territory in record time.
▲* [[Lawfull Stupid]]: Yamada is this in his presentation, Type 1, although his character development sends him to {{Lawful Evil}}, in which the rest of
▲* [[Shaggy dog story]]: All the characters are, but Shibazaki up to eleven
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