Mitsukazu Mihara's dramatically chilling look at the meaning of life, death, and the other side continues... For Shinjyurou Mamiya--an embalmer in a nation where men of his profession are viewed as outcasts--memory has always been like a prison. He reminisces about his first love and how that experience has locked him into a holding pattern in his current place in life. He encounters the lonely, the forgotten, and those who desperately hold onto their last of shred humanity. But his dealing with death will ultimately lead him to the true freedom that life offers...

Mitsukazu Mihara debuted in 1994 with the short "Gomu no Iranai Kodomo-tachi," which won a contest in the magazine Feeling Young. Famous for the Gothic Lolita fashions that she dresses her characters in, Mihara-sensei is considered a master of the short story. Besides Shigeshoshi, she is also the creator of Doll, Beaautiful People, RIP: Requiem in Phonybrian, Haunted House and IC in a Sunflower, all of which will be published in the United State by TOKYOPOP