Yumekui Kenbun – Nightmare Inspector, The End

After what felt like an eternity, I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of the final volume of Nightmare Inspector. I was almost afraid to finish it because I really love the series and hate to see good stories end, particularly when so many similar titles continue to meander through mediocrity for years.

Hiruko the baku is still at the Silver Star Teahouse, eating the nightmares of unhappy patrons and living a fairly peaceful existence with Mizuki, Hifumi and Naamu the cat. What none of them could have expected was for Tsukishiro, a rival baku, to be tracking down the bits of Hiruko’s human memories in order to use him to open the Door of the Delirium and send the city into madness. Episodic though it is (mostly), you should probably read it from the beginning to understand the majority of this volume.

Manga Recommendation: Yumekui Kenbun – Nightmare Inspector

Sometimes you get a beautiful manga with a weak story, and sometimes you get an addictive story with art that barely slides past the decent mark. And then sometimes you get lucky and find yourself with a manga that has plenty of both style and substance. Shin Mashiba’s Yumekui Kenbun – Nightmare Inspector (夢喰見聞) is [...]