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(from ebookjapan): Fumiya Saotome, a reporter in the Akatsuki Shimbun\'s sociology department, is an unbelievably violent man. He will wield both pen and arm to the fullest for the sake of social justice. He chases after a hit-and-run case, and ends up with the son of a deputy. He was paid 100 million yen to keep his mouth shut.　 He is furious, and his money will not sell him out!

Exploring odd little ideas, Variant is a short manga serialized in Monthly Magazine Garo between 1992 and 1994 but was never collected into book format.

From Viz: Kamui Shiro is a young man who was born with the power to decide the fate of the Earth itself–a destiny he can barely bring himself to believe. But as other players in the prophecy begin to gather around him–the \"Seven Seals,\" with the power to protect the Earth, and the \"Seven Harbingers,\" who are fated to destroy it–he has no choice but to come to terms with his fate.