Sister Red #1, Shizuru Hayashiya. A supernatural/horror manga that gets off to a bloody start with a fairytale devil's pact beginning. A modern Japanese schoolgirl is killed in a hit-and-run and resurrected with half of "Scarlett's Heart" - the life force of an immortal beauty who's crematory ashes turned an ancient village into vampire-like denziens. Naturally there's a sectarian battle between good and evil, and the bad guys want the heart back, with the power it possesses. A nicely episodic set-up, my only disappointment is that my local library doesn't have the next volume.

Read May 2007