By CLAMP (TokyoPop)
ISBN 1-59182-485-0
Kazahaya Kudo works in the Green Drugstore, but that’s not really his job. He shares an apartment with work colleague Rikuo, but that’s not where they live. When not dispensing prescriptions and stocking shelves they inhabit a twilight world of intrigue, confusion, suspense and even danger.
Kazahaya has a strange power. He is a psychometrist, able to glean visions, memories and dreams simply by touching objects. He and the hulking, imperturbable Rikou – who also has rare abilities – supplement their meagre incomes by undertaking missions and tasks for the eerily beautiful and androgynous Kakei-San, who manages the pharmacy. However, these side-jobs are usually extraordinary, such as retrieving phantom books or finding invisible fire-flies. All the missions would seem to have a deeper spiritual, metaphysical or even poetic meaning.
Always desperate for cash, but increasingly hungry for understanding, Kazahaya’s surreal nightlife becomes increasingly oppressive and his visions more disturbing. What can it all mean? And how will it all end?
Combining action-adventure with a surreal and supernatural otherworldliness, this intoxicating mystery is full of drama and tension to counterpoint the unreality. Here is a series with an engrossing concept that combines philosophy, buddy-movies and detective fiction to memorable effect, and which will enthral readers eager for something a little less straightforward.
This book is printed in the ‘read-from-back-to-front’ manga format.
 © 2001 CLAMP. All Rights Reserved. English text © 2004 TOKYOPOP Inc.