STORY
During civil war period in Japan, a warlord army aimed to invade a village but was defeated by mysterious power of the villagers despite the army had a numerous manpower.At present day, the main character, Yoji Minamimaru, has a strange power that he can make a small hole on paper or cup if he desires.
One day Yoji is called from Marugami seminar (studies of history and ethnology), the professor is already gone and Yoji finds several things on which an egg-size hole is ripped at the professor’s office.
At the same time, a strange homicide that half of human head is ripped off happens at a town.
In order to research the relationships among his strange ability, the holes the professor left, and the homicide, Yoji goes to the town Marukawa-cho, and he faces several problems and realties there.
(Hitoshi Iwaaki/1997-1999/4 books/Shogakukan)
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COMMENT by Shun
Deeply set-up scenario packed in just four books and well-organized last scene which makes all questions readers may have solved, this cartoon is a masterpiece of the writer Hitoshi Iwaaki as well as his best-known cartoon Parasite. Comparing only the completion rate of the comics, I would say this is better than Kisejyu.Although it is a great satisfaction you feel from the admirable last scene, I sometimes hear that some people say it is too simple that the word Sachiko, a village girl, speaks is only ‘welcome’ when Yoji visits the village again after everything is solved.
No matter what they say, however, I can see a special feeling included in the simple and short words ‘welcome back,’ and it deserves for the last scene, regarding Sachiko’s thanks, who has lived alone in narrow and dark world, to Yoji who released her free.
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