book 76
Livingstone 2 by Jinsei Kataoka
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Due to the episodic nature of this manga the star rating wavers a bit but it's a solid 3.5 stars. Sakurai and Amano are a team that collect/clean bits of soul and if they see a life off track they try to get it back on track, well Sakurai does. Amano is all for ending their life so their next life can start. Theirs is an uneasy partnership and relatively new.
In the episodes tehre's one of young lovers that might end up in a suicide pact and another where they help a police detective (something they apparently do often). There had apparently been a break in the series of a couple of years and the stories that came after are even more interesting. One deals with the possession of a little girl by the spirit of a courtesan who loved her job, a terribly sad one about a crow and a young boy and the most fascinating one which was a two parter.
Sakurai and Amano meet up with a team of psycholith collectors (souls) who are working at a higher level of collection, a team of sisters. In this it hints that Amano (and one of the sisters) aren't human and Sakurai's attempts to help Amano grow a conscience will spell trouble for Amano.
I'm reading a lot of episodic manga right now and this is one of the better ones. the art is very nice as well.
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