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Crying Freeman: Characters, Overview & Media

Crying Freeman (クライング フリーマン, Kuraingu Furīman) is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. Crying Freeman follows a Japanese assassin hypnotized and trained by the Chinese mafia (called the "108 Dragons") to serve as its agent and covered in a vast and complex dragon tattoo. A quiet but complicated killer…

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Crying Freeman topic overview

The analysis highlights Characters, Overview and Media as prominent areas in the source structure around Crying Freeman.

Related topics
105
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
109
Extracted relationships
78
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
109

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Characters · 80 topics
Overview · 17 topics
Media · 6 topics
Plot · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Directed by
Daisuke Nishio (1–3) · Shigeyasu Yamauchi (4–6)
English publisher
NA: Viz Media (former)Dark Horse Comics · Viz Media (former) · Dark Horse Comics
Episodes
6
Illustrated by
Ryoichi Ikegami
Licensed by
NA: Streamline PicturesA.D. VisionDiscotek Media · Streamline Pictures · A.D. Vision · Discotek Media · UK: Manga Entertainment
Magazine
Big Comic Spirits

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Characters

Media

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Crying Freeman connects Entity context

The extracted context around Crying Freeman shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Crying Freeman → ADV, An English, Between, Blu-ray, Complete Collection, Discotek, Discotek Media, DVD, Edie Mirman, Emu, English, February, Freeman, In, January, Manga, Manga Entertainment, Orion, Orion Home Video, OVA Another extracted example is Crying Freeman → Because, Chinese, Dragons, Emu Hino, Emu's, Freeman, He, Hinomura Kiln, Instead, Japanese, Knowing, One, Seeking, She, Subjected, The, When, Yo, Yō Hinomura. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Crying Freeman

Top relations

related to Original video animation · 32
Crying Freeman → ADV, An English, Between, Blu-ray, Complete Collection, Discotek, Discotek Media, DVD, Edie Mirman, Emu, English, February, Freeman, In, January, Manga, Manga Entertainment, Orion, Orion Home Video, OVA
related to Plot · 19
Crying Freeman → Because, Chinese, Dragons, Emu Hino, Emu's, Freeman, He, Hinomura Kiln, Instead, Japanese, Knowing, One, Seeking, She, Subjected, The, When, Yo, Yō Hinomura
Licensed by · 5
Crying Freeman → A.D. Vision, Discotek Media, NA: Streamline PicturesA.D. VisionDiscotek Media, Streamline Pictures, UK: Manga Entertainment
English publisher · 3
Crying Freeman → Dark Horse Comics, NA: Viz Media (former)Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media (former)
Produced by · 3
Crying Freeman → Akira Sasaki, Naoko Takahashi, Tomiro Kuriyama
Written by · 3
Crying Freeman → Higashi Shimizu (1–3), Kazuo Koike, Ryunosuke Ono (4–6)
Directed by · 2
Crying Freeman → Daisuke Nishio (1–3), Shigeyasu Yamauchi (4–6)
Episodes · 1
Crying Freeman → 6
Illustrated by · 1
Crying Freeman → Ryoichi Ikegami
Magazine · 1
Crying Freeman → Big Comic Spirits

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

manga freeman media crying 108 1988 dragons streamline released english comic anime ova animation japanese produced first 1994 viz chinese

Crying Freeman relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 78 structured relationships around Crying Freeman. Examples in this analysis include Crying Freeman → Directed by → Daisuke Nishio (1–3) and Crying Freeman → Directed by → Shigeyasu Yamauchi (4–6). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Crying FreemanDirected byDaisuke Nishio (1–3)1.00infobox
Crying FreemanDirected byShigeyasu Yamauchi (4–6)1.00infobox
Crying FreemanEnglish publisherNA: Viz Media (former)Dark Horse Comics1.00infobox
Crying FreemanEnglish publisherViz Media (former)1.00infobox
Crying FreemanEnglish publisherDark Horse Comics1.00infobox
Crying FreemanEpisodes61.00infobox
Crying FreemanIllustrated byRyoichi Ikegami1.00infobox
Crying FreemanLicensed byNA: Streamline PicturesA.D. VisionDiscotek Media1.00infobox
Crying FreemanLicensed byStreamline Pictures1.00infobox
Crying FreemanLicensed byA.D. Vision1.00infobox
Crying FreemanLicensed byDiscotek Media1.00infobox
Crying FreemanLicensed byUK: Manga Entertainment1.00infobox
Crying FreemanMagazineBig Comic Spirits1.00infobox
Crying FreemanMusic byHiroaki Yoshino1.00infobox
Crying FreemanOriginal run1986 – 19881.00infobox
Crying FreemanProduced byAkira Sasaki1.00infobox
Crying FreemanProduced byNaoko Takahashi1.00infobox
Crying FreemanProduced byTomiro Kuriyama1.00infobox
Crying FreemanPublished byShogakukan1.00infobox
Crying FreemanReleasedSeptember 1988 – January 19941.00infobox
Crying FreemanRuntime50 minutes (each)1.00infobox
Crying FreemanStudioToei Animation1.00infobox
Crying FreemanVolumes91.00infobox
Crying FreemanWritten byKazuo Koike1.00infobox
Crying FreemanWritten byHigashi Shimizu (1–3)1.00infobox
Crying FreemanWritten byRyunosuke Ono (4–6)1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Crying Freeman bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Freeman, Japanese and Manga. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Crying Freeman
    • Freeman
    • Japanese
    • Manga
    • English
    • Dragons
    • Produced
    • Shogakukan
    • Streamline
    • Video
    • Adapted
    • Animation
    • Big
  • crying freeman
    • Freeman
    • Japanese
    • English
    • Dragons
    • Manga
    • Episodes
    • First
    • Produced
    • Shogakukan
    • Streamline
    • Video
    • Adapted
  • manga
    • Big
    • Entertainment
    • Series
    • Spirits
    • Volumes
    • Anime
    • Comic
    • Discotek
    • Ova
    • Media
    • Released
    • Streamline
  • manga entertainment
    • Vision
    • Media
    • Big
    • Entertainment
    • Manga
    • Series
    • Spirits
    • Volumes
    • Anime
    • Comic
    • Discotek
    • Ova
  • discotek media
    • Discotek
    • Media
    • Entertainment
    • Vision
    • Streamline
    • Pictures
    • Published
    • Viz
    • Manga
    • Released
    • Mafia
    • Set
  • toei animation
    • Toei
    • Anime
    • Ova
    • Released
    • Shogakukan
    • Video
    • Big
    • Published
    • Series
    • Spirits
    • Viz
    • Volumes
  • viz media
    • Volumes
    • Discotek
    • Streamline
    • Entertainment
    • Pictures
    • Published
    • Vision
    • Viz
    • Video
    • Animation
    • Five
    • Spirits
  • media
    • Discotek
    • Streamline
    • Entertainment
    • Pictures
    • Published
    • Vision
    • Viz
    • Shogakukan
    • Video
    • Animation
    • Mafia
    • Set

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Crying Freeman, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Crying Freeman with Characters. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Crying FreemanCharacters · splits 29 ⟂ 81
Crying FreemanOverview · splits 92 ⟂ 18
Crying FreemanMedia · splits 103 ⟂ 7
Crying FreemanPlot · splits 107 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Crying Freeman

Nodes110
Edges109
Triples78
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018182
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Crying Freeman to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Characters, Overview & Media, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Crying Freeman · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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