NAMIGURO: The Black Kaiju

After the Black Tide atomic test, Namiguro, the Black Kaiju, rises from the depths of the Pacific: an ancient beast awakened from a forgotten age.In the Japanese archipelago of Kurose, amid fishing villages, harbor brothels, obscene amulets, public baths, old legends, and poisonous fish, the sea begins to spit back what men thought had been buried forever.Kenta Shiro, the last guardian of a samurai prophecy engraved in steel, has spent his entire life waiting for the monster everyone else dismissed as the ravings of mad old men.Reiko Saegusa, a prostitute at the Tsubaki-rō, feels Namiguro enter her mind like an impossible summons-older than flesh and utterly unlike the filthy human thoughts of her customers, which she has the terrible gift of perceiving.Around them, fishermen, soldiers, whores, failed monks, superstitious villagers, and brave idiots are dragged into an apocalypse of salt, blood, bullets and katana, boiled coral and atomic poison.When the Black Kaiju sets its sights on the archipelago, every body becomes shoreline, bait, prayer, or remains.Namiguro - The Black Kaiju launches Maestro Hanzo's superpulp universe: the insular, radioactive, superstitious Japan of the Kurose archipelago, populated by sea creatures, fishermen, soldiers, ancient legends, surviving kamikaze, and prostitutes, in the dark and obscene 1950s.