Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance Naoki Urasawa's "Monster", he doubted that the American market was "interested in dramas of this caliber". The manga was part of the selection list for "Best Manga Series 2010" at the 18th . Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance The manga is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" by Naoyuki Ochiai. It was serialized in Futabasha's manga magazine "Manga Action" from January 23, 2007 to March 15, 2011 and was collected into ten tankōbon volumes. The manga was licensed in North America by JManga and was one of its release titles when the website launched on August 17,
Crime and Punishment the January 1866 issue of "The Russian Messenger", and the last one was published in December 1866. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former law student, lives in extreme poverty in a tiny, rented room in Saint Petersburg. Isolated and antisocial, he has abandoned all attempts to support himself, and is brooding obsessively on a scheme he has devised to murder and rob an elderly pawn-broker. On the pretext of pawning a watch, he visits her apartment, but remains unable to commit himself. Later in a tavern he makes the acquaintance of Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a drunkard who recently squandered his family's