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By Kazuya Minekura<\/strong> (TokyoPop) This is an intriguing and fast-paced action adventure that best displays the \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to western eyes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c oddly skewed sensibilities of Japanese storytelling.<\/p>\n Toki, Nobuto and Kazuo are three young men with exceptional abilities and a desperate need for money. So when these strangers are recruited to compete as a unit in an illicit and covert competition called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Biz\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Game they jump at the opportunity, without really considering the consequences.<\/p>\n The game is played by Japanese corporations, which pit their teams in secret, no-holds-barred duels involving espionage, strategy and combat. The stakes are the industrial secrets of the parent company. Losing a match could mean the life of a contestant, but the destruction of a mainstay of the Japanese economy.<\/p>\n As the neophytes score success after success, with increasing awareness of just how dangerous their lives have become they realise that perhaps some things are more important than winning.<\/p>\n Kazuya Minekura has mixed Mission: Impossible<\/strong> and Wall Street<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0to captivating effect and this is a great little read. The series was originally serialized in Japan, but scheduling changes prevented its completion. The creator has resorted to radical measures, however.<\/p>\n Adding three unpublished chapters, he has released this story without an ending (although the narrative end is crafted to culminate a prologue rather than just leave the reader hanging) in the hopes that this will generate enough money and interest to complete the tale. I hope he succeeds, because he certainly has mine.<\/p>\n This book is printed in the ‘read-from-back-to-front’ manga format.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 2003 Kazuya Minekura. All Rights Reserved. English text \u00c2\u00a9 2006 TOKYOPOP Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 By Kazuya Minekura (TokyoPop) ISBN 1-59816-327-2 This is an intriguing and fast-paced action adventure that best displays the \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to western eyes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c oddly skewed sensibilities of Japanese storytelling. Toki, Nobuto and Kazuo are three young men with exceptional abilities and a desperate need for money. So when these strangers are recruited to compete … <\/p>\n
\nISBN 1-59816-327-2<\/p>\n