Makoto Yukimura

In a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn, gives him up for dead in his haste to suppress English resistance. But Askeladd's small band can't outrun the tenacious maniac Thorkell forever, and when the warriors finally clash, a storm of sweat and gore ensues that will turn a boy into a man and a hostage...

It's the 2070s, and mankind has conquered space, making interplanetary travel possible and igniting the imaginations of the world. It's also vastly increased the amount of dangerous space debris, and someone has to clean it up. Hachimaki, Yuri, and Fee are a crew on that beat.

Hachimaki wants nothing more than to join a mission to Jupiter and be one of the first men to travel that far into the solar system. A group of environmentalists is protesting the further exploitation of space, however, and when the clash gets deadly, Hachimaki is caught in the middle.

Spiritually bankrupt, young astronaut Hachimaki finds himself turning to Tanabe, a girl he once found annoying, for support as the first manned mission to Jupiter draws near.

In 1013 AD England when Denmark and England are fighting for the throne, Young Thorfinn joins a group of Viking mercenaries led by his father's slayer determined to avenge his father's death.