(pb; 2002, 2005. Translated from Japanese to English by Andrew Cunningham.)
From the back cover
“Morino is the strangest girl
in school—how could she not be, given her obsession with brutal murders? And
there are plenty of murders to grow obsessed with, as the town in which she
lives is a magnet for serial killers. She and her schoolmate will go to any
length to investigate the murders, even putting their own bodies on the line.
And they don’t want to stop the killers—Morino and her friend simply want to
understand them.”
Review
Goth is an excellent, unsettling, clever and twisty work, with a world not set in our reality and a plethora of amoral characters—not only the killers, who have a youkai-like air about them—drawn to the unsmiling Yoru Morino, who’s “Goth” in the sense of her melancholic air and primarily black colors, nothing more.
Animal lovers with little
stomach for occasional, semi-detailed acts of animal cruelty (early to midway
through Goth) might want to skip this tightly edited book—I considered putting down the
book and reading something else, but pushed through the brief
scenes/descriptions, and while I won’t read this book again (nor see its
resulting Shonen manga and live-action film), I’m glad I read this, and might consider
checking out other Otsuiki works in the future (provided there’s no more animal
cruelty in them).
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