Dark Edge vols 1-6

STARTER PACK

By Yu Aikawa (DrMaster Publications)
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-59796-159-2

Here’s a lovely idea for these cash-strapped times and just in time to beat the Christmas rush. A few years ago Yu Aikawa began his series of blackly comic tales set in the most unique High School in Japan. Kuro Takagi is a troubled boy. His mother has just died; he does not know his father and he’s been transferred to a new school. The kids there seem as wayward and difficult as he feels.

Yotsuji Private High School is not normal or traditional. The teachers only seem concerned with one unbreakable rule: under no circumstance must any pupil be on school property after dark. Those who have broken this rule are never seen again.

Kuro quickly befriends a disparate bunch of students, and learns that his absentee father is the secret owner of the school. And then, inevitably, one night they get locked in and learn why those giant gates are locked at dusk.

The school is a realm of monsters. Zombies roam the corridors, all the teachers are vampires, demons, succubae or worse and dead students can be reanimated at the will of the Powers subtly warring within the walls of this hell-academyâ€¦

And thus begins a highly engaging teen-horror saga with lots of twists and turns to satisfy the post-Buffy generation of older readers, manga or otherwise.

And now the first half-dozen volumes are available in a hugely economical shrink-wrapped six-pack that is both an ideal way to jump on board the fright-train and also makes for a cool Yule tool for that upcoming thing in December.

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