MANGA: Search and Destroy Ch. 15

The EISNER-NOMINATED Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko reaches the mid-way point of its final volume in this massive 50-page special chapter.

Hello, and welcome back to Atsushi Kaneko’s Search and Destroy Volume 3, based on the manga Dororo by Osamu Tezuka. This is the third chapter of volume 3, and this post for paid subscribers to Mangasplaining Extra, with CBZs and PDFs of this chapter at the end. Everyone else, please enjoy these few preview pages or the free chapters available below.

Search and Destroy Previous Chapters:
Volume One: Introduction (Free) | 00-01 (Free) | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 |
Volume Two: 07 (Free) | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12
Volume Three: 13 (Free) | 14

This chapter is full of spoilers for the series, and we recommend getting caught up on the above chapters before continuing. This chapter is also 50 pages, a little over double a standard 22ish page comic book at this point, so we hope you’re enjoying this incredible work. Also a quick note on some good news before we get started.

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Search and Destroy Volume 1 Nominated for an Eisner Award

The big news this week is that the print edition of Search and Destroy Volume 1 published by our friends at Fantagraphics has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the manga category, also known as “Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.” We’re thrilled to see this recognition for the team on this, and our congratulations go out to Kaneko-sensei, the good folks at TezukaPro, Fantagraphics, and of course our amazing creative team of translator Ben Applegate and letterer Phil Christie. There’s a lot of other folks to thank too, but we will have sort of a round-up of all of that news next week.

But if you are a comics professional in any capacity, or a retailer, or librarian, you are eligible to vote in the Eisner Awards. You can register to vote at https://cci.tiny.us/2025Eisners and please do so by May 29th. Voting ends for people who have pre-registered on June 5th.

The mighty stack of titles published by Fantagraphics that were nominated this year. Happy to see Search and Destroy on the top of that pile. :)

Search and Destroy Volume 1 is currently available in Print from our partners at Fantagraphics, and you can pre-order Volume 2 (June 2025) & Volume 3 (September 2025) at retailers everywhere.

Buy Search and Destroy Volume 1: Fantagraphics | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Pre-order Search and Destroy Volume 2: Fantagraphics | Amazon | B&N
Pre-order Search and Destroy Volume 3: Fantagraphics | Amazon | B&N

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Search and Destroy - Chapter 15

By Atsushi Kaneko, based on the story Dororo by Osamu Tezuka
Translated by Ben Applegate, Lettered by Phil Christie.
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