"Parental advisory explicit content." Reads from right-to-left. "First published in Japan in 2001 by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo"--Colophon.
Summary:
"Our conflicted 'multiple personality detective' Kazuhiko Amamiya, controlled by his murderous Shinji Nishizono personality, finds himself on a hijacked airplane, along with Miwa and her schoolmates. Machi and bumbling police detective Sasayama -- on a hunt for the missing Amamiya -- are captured and brought to an ocean liner commandeered by several new, bizarre characters who are connected to both the twisted 'barcoded eye conspiracy' and the deadly Gakuso Society! Some huge questions are finally answered, more strange deviants areintroduced and writer Eiji Otsuka continues to astound with his inventive plot twists and atrocities" -- p. [4] of cover.
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