{"id":1062,"date":"2007-09-16T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2007-09-16T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T14:50:45","slug":"legal-drug-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/16\/legal-drug-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Drug Vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/legal-drug-vol-1.jpg\" alt=\"Legal Drug Vol 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By CLAMP (TokyoPop)<br \/>\nISBN 1-59182-485-0<\/p>\n<p>Kazahaya Kudo works in the Green Drugstore, but that&#8217;s not really his job. He shares an apartment with work colleague Rikuo, but that&#8217;s not where they live. When not dispensing prescriptions and stocking shelves they inhabit a twilight world of intrigue, confusion, suspense and even danger.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who also has rare abilities &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Always desperate for cash, but increasingly hungry for understanding, Kazahaya&#8217;s surreal nightlife becomes increasingly oppressive and his visions more disturbing. What can it all mean? And how will it all end?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This book is printed in the &#8216;read-from-back-to-front&#8217; manga format.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a9 2001 CLAMP. All Rights Reserved. English text \u00c2\u00a9 2004 TOKYOPOP Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CLAMP (TokyoPop) ISBN 1-59182-485-0 Kazahaya Kudo works in the Green Drugstore, but that&#8217;s not really his job. He shares an apartment with work colleague Rikuo, but that&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/16\/legal-drug-vol-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Legal Drug Vol 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-h8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}