Calen Tokyo

Calen's Dark Metro collection centres around, as the name suggests, a metro. Each chapter is a separate vignette with different characters, and unrelated stories. The only constant is Seiya, a mysterious man who serves as a guide to the underworld. And when the living stumble into his realm, by accident, or having been lead there by a dead person who wants, for whatever reason, to drag the living person with them in death, Seiya is the one who intercedes, shepherding the living back across show more the barrier to their own existence. Each story was tied to the Metro in one way or another. People's paths cross via the Metro, some jump. Some hunt prey. Accidents happen. I like the attention to detail in each vignette. Chapter Three is a good example. This involves the spirit of a suicide jumper. Let's just say, I've seen what a train victim looks like, and the art was spot on. Recommended!

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Decent. I read a lot of seinen, so this felt like slumming a bit, aimed as it is at a younger audience. Too cutesy, little character development. However, speaking as a subway buff, this book was pretty cool. Good matching of theme to setting, just wish the ghost stories showed more depth. Good enough for me to check out the next volume, if only as a guilty indulgence.