The Setting Sun Bio25 The brilliant storytelling of series

The brilliant storytelling of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of Goseki Kojima create a graphic-fiction masterpiece of beauty

one of her friends from the shelter

which will make these dolls meaningful keepsakes"

But the accursed shell unleashes its host's inner demons

The Setting Sun Bio25 The brilliant storytelling of seriesSet in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.