By Kei Kusunoki (Tokyopop)
ISBN: 1-59816-498-8
Everybody knows that witches are bad, so when Private Eye Makoto Hirasaka, a detective with an absolutely uncanny ability to find his quarry is accused of being one he laughs it off. But even though his pretty young client is “mistakenâ€, she still wants him to ride a bus and meet someone at the last stop. And that person will actually be a witch…
And so begins a dark and nasty splatter-fest of shock and gore. When the bus crashes in the wilds, Makoto discovers that in fact all the pretty young girls are witches and moreover the locals have turned the crash-site into a private hunting preserve, which is okay since they’re witches and witches are evil and evil witches must die…
This decidedly odd and amoral tale is well-paced, thrilling in the classic modern-horror manner and beautifully illustrated. In spellbinding images we see the girls – and to be fair, their pursuers – die in increasing splashy and bizarre ways as Makoto realises that maybe not only his client could be mistaken as to his mystical status…
If you love mood and action and can overlook any sense of plot this rather nonsensical piece of fluff might call to you.
This book is printed in the ‘read-from-back-to-front’ manga format.
© 2004 Kei Kusunoki. All Rights Reserved. English script © 2006 Tokyopop Inc.