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Yosuke Kobayashi ist Polizist und ermittelt in einer bizarren Mordserie. Der junge Detektiv wird im Laufe der Ermittlungen persönlich in den Fall involviert und entwickelt aufgrund der dramatischen Ereignisse eine dissoziative Identitätsstörung. Die weitere Jagd nach dem Serienkiller endet in einer Katastrophe. Yosuke wird wegen Mordes verurteilt und landet im Gefängnis, steht der Mordkommission aber weiterhin als Profiler zur Verfügung. Zu Recht, denn es gibt viel zu tun – überall in der Stadt tauchen äußert kreative und brutale Serienmörder auf. Eine wahre „Serienmörder-Epidemie“ wütet in den Straßen Tokyos. Die Vorgehensweise und Fetische der Serienkiller könnten dabei gar nicht unterschiedlicher sein und doch weisen alle eine absonderliche Gemeinsamkeit auf: einen mysteriösen Strichcode im linken Auge…

380 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2023

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Eiji Otsuka

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大塚英志

Social anthropologist and novelist. Graduated from college with degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and “otaku” sub-cultures. One of his first animation script works was Maho no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Otsuka was the editor for the bishojo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie.

In the 80s, Otsuka was editor-in-chief of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered research on the “otaku” sub-culture in modern Japan. In 1988 he published "Manga no Koro" (The Structure of Comics), a serious study of Japanese comics and their social significance. Also as critic, Otsuka Eiji, summarized the case of the Japanese red army's 1972 murders as a conflict between the masculine and the feminine principles as they were both embodied by women and against women (Otsuka,1994).

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