Banished Souls

In 2025 Yamato, a series of ritualistic murders targeting outcasts draws gourmet detective Shinsuke Furuyama into a labyrinth of academic arrogance and buried ethnic wounds. Each victim bears the marks of a secret obedience experiment conducted by a charismatic professor of Zainam descent, who transforms socially rejected students into executioners. Inspired by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s noir cuisine and biting social criticism, the investigation unfolds through smoky izakayas, pickled kimchi, and the shattered lives of those trapped between two homelands, revealing that every killing carries the soul of someone long abandoned by society.