Outlanders was Johji Manabe's first full-length story to be serialized in Japan -- a full-speed-ahead space opera filled with biomech warships and interstellar (and interpersonal) mayhem. Ordinary earthly photographer Tetsuya finds himself caught up in a galactic war, trapped between the Empire, its enemies, and the Emperor's runaway heir, the lively, lovely -- and lethal -- Kahm.