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Black paradox

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL ITO TEEN (CEN, WSQ)

Languages

Translated from the Japanese.

Publication Information

San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, [2022]

Physical Description

201 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Audience

Rated T+ for Older Teen; recommended for ages 16 and up. This volume contains graphic violence and horror themes.

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..."--

Notes

This book reads from right to left.

"Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN"--Colophon.

Contents

  • Group suicide
  • A Pecular pylorus
  • Paradonite
  • Dr. Suga's cottage
  • The Spirit world project
  • Toward a dazzling future
  • Strange pavilion.