Looking For Work? Try Grey Jobs (Souichi Recommends)
Ara, ara.... it's a little hard looking for work out there right now, huh...? Not that the great and mighty Souichi would need to worry about such paltry mortal affairs. But if you need a lot of money, and you're willing to take a risk... there's always 'Grey' work. What's 'Grey' Work....? Well....
It's like a part time job. Of a sort. Just... sketchy. Shady. Neither here nor there. Between life and death, or between gods and capitalisim. It's free market D-Class. It's wrapping up soon and I'll be sad to see it go. It's
Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi
But hey, if you have a nose for danger and a coworker you like, maybe you can just keep making it through one more job. Just. A couple more. Until the ledger balances up. The girls survived this time, right....?
Indeed, instead of cycling us through faceless improbable body counts alone, we have recurring protagonists doing their best to get by, relying on one of them having an incredible nose for danger (literally) and the other... kinda just having nerves of steel. It's a good dynamic, and their connection is a great motivating emotional core to the story.
Well, you all know Souichi. Always sentimental, right~? Or maybe like the last apple in the bowl, souichi's come to have a soft spot with age.... well, either way.
This one comes with a special recommendation or going above and beyond in the field of horror comics. Keep your eyes metaphorically peeled for some truly breathtaking innovations in spot color, and some dips into truly surreal, dreamlike horror.
All the warnings one could wish for apply, wonderfully or regrettably. Gore, manglings, surreal and existential fates, a really scary cube, and the depressing capitalistic structure all abound.
Happy reading~
















