Title:
Black paradox / by Junji Ito ; translation & adaptation: Jocelyne Allen ; touch-up art & lettering: Eric Erbes.
ISBN:
9781974728633
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, [2022]
©2009
Physical Description:
201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN.
Statement of responsibility partially from colophon.
Pages numbered from right to left.
Chiefly illustrations.
Contents:
Group suicide -- A pecular pylorus -- Paradonite -- Dr. Suga's cottage -- The spirit world project -- Toward a dazzling future -- Strange pavilion.
Summary:
"Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny ..."-- Provided by publisher
Language Note:
In English. Translated from the Japanese.
Audience:
Rated T+, older teen.
Series Title:
Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
on1348290554
Availability:
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