Wicked City: The Other Side (Wicked City, #2) by Hideyuki Kikuchi

››› Get audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Wicked City (Wicked City, #2) ISBN: 0765323311 ISBN13: 9780765323316 Autor: Hideyuki Kikuchi Rating: 4.1 of 5 stars (4158) counts Original Format: Paperback, 240 pages Download Format: PDF, TXT, ePub, iBook. Published: June 8th 2010 / by Tor/Seven Seas / (first published July 31st 1985) Language: English Genre(s): Horror- 6 users Fantasy >Urban Fantasy- 2 users

Description: The classic anime Wicked City is based on a series of novels by master horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi. Tor/Seven Seas is pleased to present these novels to the North American audience for the first time, featuring cover art by Christian McGrath (The Dresden Files). The Black Guard, whose job it is to protect the boundary between our mortal world and the demonic Dark World, has succeeded in preserving the tenuous peace treaty between the two worlds, averting an all-out war. Now a new threat from the Dark World terrorizes humanity, a monster that invades people’s dreams and causes them to commit murder. Black Guard agents Taki, a hardboiled human, and his sexy demon partner, Makie, must work alongside legendary Black Guard agent Miyuki if they are to defeat the creature and save the world. Like author Hideyuki Kikuchi’s well-known and critically-acclaimed Vampire Hunter D novels (Dark Horse), Wicked City is an epic ten-volume tale of supernatural horror and high-octane action.

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- Vampire Hunter D

- Vampire Hunter D Volume 02: Raiser of Gales

- Vampire Hunter D Volume 03: Demon Deathchase

- Vampire Hunter D Volume 07: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea - Part One

- Vampire Hunter D Volume 04: Tale of the Dead Town

Books In The Series:

- Wicked City: Black Guard (Wicked City, #1)

- Wicked City: The Scarlet Clan (Wicked City, #3)

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Oct 20, 2016 Leila Anani Rated it: it was ok Shelves: urban-fantasy, horror, hideyuki-kikuchi, manga-novels, weird, freaky-sex-scenes,

alternative-dimensions-realities, erotic-horror, succubi-and-incubi, dreams, paranormalinvestigators This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Normally I love Hideyuki Kikuchi and the last wicked city novel was.... wicked :) but this one.... meh. First off it has no continuity with the previous novel at all other than featuring Taki & Makie it makes no reference to her pregnancy and indeed at one point she wonders if she is in love with Taki... which we know she is from the previous book. There's barely any characterisation of these two at all. Secondly i didn't like the plot - this one deals with dream realities - a trope Kikuchi Normally I love Hideyuki Kikuchi and the last wicked city novel was.... wicked :) but this one.... meh. First off it has no continuity with the previous novel at all other than featuring Taki & Makie it makes no reference to her pregnancy and indeed at one point she wonders if she is in love with Taki... which we know she is from the previous book. There's barely any characterisation of these two at all. Secondly i didn't like the plot - this one deals with dream realities - a trope Kikuchi uses often, but really makes things confusing, prose not being a visual medium. So we have an incubus - who rapes women in their dreams. Since the women no longer want regular sex, the human race is likely to die out.... In order to defeat it they have to unleash a more powerful incubus to fight it and stop the whole world turning into a dream world. The plot itself doesn't make that much sense and adding in the confusion of dreams within dreams... ick. It seems like an excuse to write a whole load of glorified rape sequences to me. They only happen to women, who seem to enjoy being raped by demons, tentacle monsters, a giant wooden tank, maggot covered corpses, snakes.... You want hentai in novel form, look no further. But while Kikuchi usually balances the freaky sex scenes with story, that really isn't the case here alas - it's really gratuitous - With lines like: "An ordinary wife being raped by a demon in one shady corner of the underground was hot" and "...a housewife and a demon at the same time, menage a trois. It was the fantasy of every man, no matter his species." You begin to see just how self indulgent this is. The other thing lacking here is character. The only interesting character is the Dream Guard Saga Miyuki, an alcholic Black Guard who is the only one who has the power to save the day. The rest of the characters including the villains are paper thin. One other thing to note is the lack of illustrations - the previous Wicked City novel was illustrated, while this one isn't. Maybe the artist objected to the content of this one - seriously it's one rape scene after another.... or maybe if illustrated it: would need an advisory warning. So.... Gratuitous and anti-feminist in the extreme, with a confusing plot and paper thin characters, this one is a bit of a let down. It's still Kikuchi and full of his trademark freaky weird, but certainly not his finest hour.