I think, mostly, I’m not seeing much in it that’s different. It also uses a comic relief tool that annoys me– The characters are perpetually broke and can’t buy food. That sets me off hugely, so I must be finding other things intriguing to keep going anyway.

Basically, the main character used to be an assassin and is now a bounty hunter (the anime starts before the transition and the manga after). Now he works with a couple of partners. The group he used to work for was nasty and is still out there. Someone else who left at the same time he did is setting up to try to conquer the world (or something similar. I’m not far enough in to be sure) and is obsessed with getting the hero to join him.