It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki between September 2001 and August 2009, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes.

Due to massive military spending, many prisons are shut and a Vengeance Act is created instead to allow those who have been hurt by convicted criminals to get revenge.

[18] It was directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, written by Takashi Ujita, and starred Tetsuji Tamayama as Hiroshi.

[19][20] Freesia is Matsumoto's internationally best known work and although not officially translated into English it has been popular on the scanlation circuit.

[1][21] Ryan Payton of 1UP.com described it as having "awesome art, intense stakeouts and firefights, and lots of psychoanalysis.