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Author’s Note
I have instilled in Maohden all my affection for the city. Here is the place where the dreams spring literally to life; a battlefield between witches and warlocks; a world where death devours life even as the land sustains human habitation.
I wrote Maohden in an effort to create another world within this world.
Fuji Television, the Shinjuku Ward Government Building, Yasukuni Avenue, Takada no Baba—all part of this world yet now caught up in the realms of the fantastic and the grotesque.
In broad daylight and in the dark of the night, I hope to instill deep feelings of déjà vu in those of you who also share these twisted visions of the future.
Author’s Bio
Says Hideyuki Kikuchi, “I like bringing to life haunted and mysterious people, capabilities, and cities in the midst of the modern world.”
Maohden just may be the incarnation of this desire. True to the expectations of his readers, the book overflows with the author’s trademark fantasy, action and eroticism.
Hideyuki Kikuchi was born in 1949, in the city of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture. While studying law at Aoyama University, he participated in the campus’s “mystery and detective novel” club. After graduation, he published stories in doujinshi magazines and translated science fiction while working as a magazine reporter.
Hideyuki Kikuchi’s debut as a novelist came in 1982 with the publication of Demon City Shinjuku. The publication of Makaiko in 1985 elevated him to the ranks of bestselling authors. His extraordinary achievements since are well known to his readers.
Maohden Vol. 2
Maohden vol.2 © Hideyuki Kikuchi 1986. Originally published in Japan in 1986 by SHODENSHA Publishing Co.,LTD. English translation copyright (c) 2012 by DIGITAL MANGA, Inc. All other material (c) 2012 by DIGITAL MANGA, Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders. Any likeness of characters, places, and situations featured in this publication to actual persons (living or deceased), events, places, and situations are purely coincidental. All characters depicted in sexually explicit scenes in this publication are at least the age of consent or older. The DMP logo is (tm) of DIGITAL MANGA, Inc.
Written by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Illustrated by Jun Suemi
English Translation by Eugene Woodbury
English Edition Published by:
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Digital Edition
First Edition: August 2012
E-ISBN-13: 978-1-61313-240-1
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Main Characters
Setsura Aki
The only son of Renjo Aki, this beautiful genie runs a senbei shop in West Shinjuku and a P.I. agency on the side. He wields sub-micron thin strands of “devil wire.”
Gento Roran
The only son of Byori Roran has awakened from his fifteen-year slumber. His quest for the seal leads him to a showdown with Setsura. His main weapon is the same “devil wire.”
Hyota
Gento’s strange, diminutive servant secretes oils from every pore that prevent Setsura’s devil wires from taking hold.
Mephisto
As beautiful as he is feared, the Demon Physician is said to even bring the dead back to life.
Mayumi
The beautiful young woman known as the seal. Any man who has sex with her, consensual or not, dies a gruesome death.
Azusa Sasaki
The younger sister of Banri Sasaki, a reporter who came to Shinjuku to gather material about Demon City and was killed by Gento.
Yoshiko Toya
The best information broker in Shinjuku and, weighing in at two hundred plus pounds, the fattest.