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| Cafe Occult Volume 1 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Oh Rhe Bar Ghun, Ahn No Uhn
Publisher: Infinity Studios
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 400084
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 159697091X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.595195
EAN: 9781596970915
ASIN: 159697091X
Publication Date: March 23, 2005
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Product Description
On her way home from shopping around, Suh Rin meets with an unfortunate end when she is hit by an on coming truck. The next thing she knows, she's being abducted by a stranger. Overwhelmed by the fact she had just been killed, Suh Rin has difficulty grasping the fact that she has entered a new existence in the realm of spirits. More importantly, she has yet to realize that tremendous supernatural powers lie within her... a power great enough to make her the target of abductions by tremendously powerful people within the spirit realm. However, thanks to Young and the mysterious owner of a cafe called the Cafe Occult, Suh Rin is rescued from a new existence as someone's servant. Instead, she joins Young on action packed thrills in which she assists Young fulfill requests as an 'errand boy' taking care of special requests by clients in a lawless world controlled only by power.
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CRIME IN THE AFTERLIFE July 30, 2006
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
When high school student Suh Rin seeks shelter from a rainstorm in a cozy little diner called Cafe Occult she cannot realize that she will be visiting it again after she is dead! Cafe Occult is a place where the human and the spirit worlds exist on the same dimensional plane. You would think that after you're dead that you would go to Heaven or Hell or at least you would learn about all the mysteries that are unknown to living beings. I hate to rain on your parade, but the spirit world is exactly the same as the living one! People look just the same. They still need to eat, sleep, etc. The city looks just the same, except that there happen to be spirits. Unfortunately, crime also exists among the spirits. You would think that dead people would be above such things, but there are actually ghost gangs that prey on newly dead spirits like Suh Rin. It doesn't help that she is labeled as a "special" spirit and so is even more highly sought after. Luckily for her the owner of Cafe Occult is in the business of helping out such spirits and employs Young, a John Waynesque Crow-like warrior that packs a cross-shaped pistol that fires "Holy Inverse" bullets. Will he be able to keep Suh Rin from being taken captive?
The plot point that I really had a problem with was the whole afterlife theory we have in Cafe Occult. How boring it is to think that after we die, we just continue hanging out in the semblance of a human life. Who wants to die and still have to deal with paying bills and worrying about being victims of crime? I mean, where's the tension in it? If you get shot, you'll just come back as a spirit again. How can you die if you're already dead? So what do any of these battles really mean? Another thing is it's hard to figure out who is alive and who is a spirit. The characters are pretty stereotypical and none of them really grabs your attention. The art is ok but the premise of the afterlife and the lack of characterization banishes this book to the below average category.
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