![]() ![]() ![]() Loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, all characters are Japanese, and Alameda ( Pitch Dark, 2018, etc.) and Maetani ( Ink and Ashes, 2015) have taken care to present Shinto as a living religion with modern-day practitioners while still building a lively supernatural world. With the help of the shrine’s guardian, Shiro, Kira embarks on a quest to assemble a band of shinigami, death gods who collect the spirts of the dead. When a yokai raid leaves the shrine destroyed, Kira learns of a plot to resurrect an ogre king bent on defeating the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu, and plunging the world into darkness. Because of this ability, her grandfather has trained her as a Shinto shrine maiden, tasked with removing evil from the world and with one day taking over the family’s shrine. ![]() Kira Fujikawa can see yokai, the demons that walk the streets of Japan, sometimes causing trouble and sometimes preoccupied with the problems of their own world. In order to save her family’s shrine-and the world-Kira must assemble an unpredictable band of death gods to stand against a demon. ![]()
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