TETRAGRAMMATON LABYRINTH*

This manga is a recent find, I ran across a copy of the first, and thus far only volume out at Borders last night.  I wasn't really looking to add another title to my shopping lists, having been looking for a copy of He is My Master, which I should have bought a while back as there was only one copy in the store at the time and I didn't feel up to driving all over town searching each and every Borders and Barnes & Noble last night.  I have done that before when I really wanted a particular manga and I am not ashamed to admit that.  Anyway this book is part of Seven Seas new Strawberry Yuri line and it is about a what appears to be a twelve year old girl named Angela and a Nun named Meg that hunt down and destroy demons in early twentieth century London.  Note that I said that Angela appears to be twelve but that is not the case.  The hook in this series is the fact that you are given just enough information to make you wonder just what is going on and what aren't you being told.  The art is top notch and the story very well paced, alternating nicely and smoothly between exposition and action.  The exact extent of the relationship between Sister Meg and Angela is still unclear at the close of volume one as with so much else but I have the sneaking suspicsion that the real twist is the secret within the secret as was once said about something else.**  I for one can't wait to get my hands on volume two when it comes out.

*Picture shamelessly stolen from Robert's Anime Corner Store

**This remark was made by Dr. John Craven in reference to the CIA's Project Jennifer.  For more details on the events that led to Project Jenifer I highly reccomend the book Red Star Rouge by Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond.

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