Ai no Kusabi

On Amoi, social rank is tied to hair color, with the AI supercomputer Jupiter presiding over a rigid hierarchy. The flawless blond ruling class—known as the Blondies—reside in the capital, Tanagura, while darker-haired people are dismissed as “mongrels” and pushed into the pleasure city of Midas and the surrounding slums of Ceres, where escape from poverty is rare.

Three years earlier, Riki vanished from Ceres. Once the respected head of the gang Bison, he was uprooted after crossing paths with the elite Blondie Iason Mink and taken from his life to serve as Iason’s pet in Tanagura—an existence that left him battered in spirit as much as in pride. When Riki finally returns, Bison gathers around him again, but the danger has only grown: betrayal is always close, and someone is always willing to sell him out.