Until It Turns to Ashes

At the end of the Showa era, on the outskirts of Tokyo, there is a lawless district where the yakuza hold sway. Ritsu is a student at Kuzuha Middle School. With his black hair slicked back in a seven-to-three part, narrow sanpaku eyes, and a small old burn scar on the back of his right hand, he wears his uniform sloppily. He always ranks at the top of his class. But the teachers never praise him—he is a yakuza's son. Girls approach him for his looks. Yoshishi, a younger student, follows him arou