X-Kai

(Tokyopop, 2006)
™ and © 1998 Asami TohJoh

Whoever said florists are boring? Not so, sniffs “Death” Kaito Yagami. Aside from looking like Rupert Everett, he is an assassin whose weapons of choice are botanical poisons. Getting his jobs via his gal pal Sugaru, this flowery beauty also is scented with a conscience, which proves troubling when his clients lack one.
In his first case, a doctor hires Kaito to eliminate an infatuated blind woman who is a malpractice liability. Next, Kaito has a contract on an ailing mob boss, who offers to care for a cheating subordinate’s sick girlfriend as long as the young yakuza donates a kidney to him. Applying his fees to aid his own sick brother, can Kaito catch a killer who copycats his signature style of using white lilies? Then, will his sympathy for an abused orphan boy get him caught by the dogged Detective Koda?
Asami Tohjoh apes a bishonen style but, instead of delivering expected dreamboat goods, makes her hero a vigilante. The acts of bloody stabbing may confuse, yet titillate, female fans of the genre.
— Oliver Chin

From the Publisher

By day, Kaito is a florist, but at night, he is a ruthless assassin who is brought orders to kill by a mysterious woman. But Kaito is an assassin with a conscience—and his life is made difficult when he has to take care of his sick brother…

Part hardboiled romance of solitude, part meditation on the meaning of life and death, the long-awaited manga series is filled with love, blood, murder, and plenty of white lilies.

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May, 2006
Cover Price: $9.99
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Asami Tohjoh