Bradherley’s Coach is a single volume manga by Hiroaki Samura of the Blade of the Immortal fame. Bradherley’s Coach’s plot is about the mysterious Lord Nicholas A. Bradherley, one of Europe’s leading aristocrats, who sends his coach to various orphanages to adopt young girls and train them for his famed opera troupe. However only a select few a selected for the stage – so what happens to the rest? The other girls are chosen for a more sinister purpose in the name of a “greater good”.
Samura’s plot follows themes and motif’s of human trafficking/sexual trafficking, morality and it’s codes, false hope, and survival. It’s character’s vary from the girls (before being taken away or during their ordeal), people who were involved in trafficking the girls and prison staff; so there is various story lines to follow and different perspectives to look at. I feel this can be a huge inspiration for my project and it does have powerful imagery relating to sex trafficking of women and minors.
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