Aka: Kagen no Tsuki
Writer: Yazawa Ai
Original Run: 1998/1999
Language: English
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
Volumes: 3
Synopsis:
Mizuki Mochizuki is a high school student that one day meets a man by the name Adam. In the two weeks they are together, she falls in love with him, and the day he is to leave, she decides to follow him. Bringing her passport and a bag, she crosses one of Shibuya's many streets, on a red light, to follow after him. Only, when her ex-boyfriend calls out her name, she turns around, in the middle of the street, to see him running after her. While standing there, she is hit by a car.Some time later, a girl named Hotaru, who has lost her cat, mistakes a stray as her own. The cat wanders into an abandoned home, and she squeezes through the bars to follow after the cat. When realizing that the cat isn't hers, she decides to leave, but is drawn in by a beautiful melody. She makes her way to where the sound is coming from, and discovers a girl playing a piano. After telling her friends about the girl, they all leave to check out the scene. When they go there, they cannot see the girl, but knows she is real when Hotaru hands her a notebook, and she takes it from Hotaru's hands. They have no idea who this girl is, but they are determined to find out just who she is and why she is there. The rest of the story follows their discoveries of the ghost they call Eve.
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Characters:
Mizuki Mochizuki:
A 17-year-old high school student. She met with a car accident and ended up in a coma. At the end when she wakes up she has no memories of what happened as her day's as Eve neither does she has on Adam or anything that had happened during the 2 weeks while she was away other than the fact that she had just broken up with her boyfriend. She doesn't remember the 4 kids either.
Hotaru Shiraishi :
The protagonist of the story, a young girl who met Mizuki when both of them were in a coma from separate car accidents. When she found Mizuki's ghost (Eve), she became committed to helping Mizuki. At the beginning, Hotaru says that she has a crush on Miura but at the end of the manga, when she apologizes to Sae thinking that she must have caused her best friend pain as she never thought about Sae's feelings towards Miura, she admits that she has a new crush; on Sugisaki.
Eve:
The identity of Mizuki's ghost when she was in a coma. Eve had no recollections of who she was, but remembered that Adam was her lover, and that she must find him. She eventually started to remember little memories of being Sayaka Kamijou which confuses the 4 children as they knew that Eve was actually Mizuki. It is Sayaka who in a way possessed Mizuki's body. Only Hotaru could see her.
Adam Lang:
The lead singer of the band Evil Eye. It is implied that he committed suicide at 20 years old, after his girlfriend died of an illness.
Sae Kayama:
Hotaru's best friend. She is sensible and loyal to her friends. She also tried her best to help Eve. As the story progresses, Sae finds that she is starting to like Masaki but continues to deny it since she knows that Hotaru had always had a particular interest in him but near the very end of the manga, when Hotaru apologizes to Sae and asking her if she liked Miura, she denies it.
Tetsu Sugisaki :
Hotaru's schoolmate and the son of the doctor who took care of Hotaru when she was in a coma. He became involved in the quest to help Eve as well. It seems that later on in the story, he develops a obvious crush on Hotaru although it seems that she is oblivious to it.
Masaki Miura :
Tetsu's best friend. He is the son of celebrities. His parents are divorced, and he lived with his father, who was always away at work. Although he sometimes made tactless comments, he sincerely wanted to help Eve. In the movie, he is portrayed as wearing glasses and follows Hotaru into the house the first time she goes in. When he first met Hotaru, he commented that he thinks she is cute. If is hinted that he may have a slight interest in Sae later on.
Tomoki Anzai :
Mizuki's ex-boyfriend. She put up with his infidelity until he cheated on her with her best friend. After they broke up, he wanted to apologize to her, but she met with an accident before he could do so. It is shown that while Mizuki was in a coma, that he really cared for her and loved her and that he regretted doing such things that had hurt her remembering their past together and how they had first got together.
Sayaka Kamijou :
Adam's beloved girlfriend. She was studying in England when she met him. Unfortunately, she died of a disease at about 17 years old.
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