Amazon.com Based on a manga adaptation of a Chinese ghost story, this offbeat adventure-farce recalls Slayers in tone. Zhou, the emperor of China, is bewitched by the evil Dakki: he neglects the empire and its people to indulge her whims. Genshitenson, one of the Taoist Immortals, decides to restore order and assigns disciple-in-training Taikoubou to imprison the souls of Dakki and 364 other demons in Houshin Mountain. An engaging ne'er-do-well in the Captain Tylor/Carrot Glace mode, Taikoubou searches for "powerful allies" on his put-upon steed Sibuxiang and finds the reincarnated warrior Nataku. The filmmakers create a quirky, appealing story by scrambling unusual characters designs, an ancient Chinese setting, and modern technological devices--the aloof demon Shinkohyo watches the other characters via the "Thousand League Eye," a sort of video monitor, complete with push-button remote control. This volume contains the first 5 of 26 episodes. Unrated; suitable for ages 14 and up: Violence, brief nudity, minor profanity. --Charles Solomon From the Back Cover They're sending a boy... to do a man's job. The ancient Chinese Yin Dynasty is rotting from the inside out, infested with demon immortals. Project Soul Hunt was drafted by the Immortal High Council to capture all these "dangerous" souls and seal them away forever. Now all that remains is to find someone to carry it out. Why risk the life of a perfectly good immortal if you can send a good-for-nothing instead? Taikoubou skips his lessons and naps while he's meditating: if he doesn't happen to make it back, so much the better. Armed with nothing but a magical rod and a hit list, Taikoubou is dragged off by the spiritual beast Sibuxiang. But when your job is killing demon immortals, on-the-job training can be extremely rough! Will Taikoubou get his act together in time to save his skin? Or will he and Sibu get vaporized his first day on the job?
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