A Pale Moon Reverie (Manga) Volume 1

Irede: the world's oldest pleasure town, built as an offering to a god. Here alone, myth has endured the passing of millennia. In a townscape dyed vermilion by the light of hanging lanterns, fine wine and masterful music sate the desires of guests who travel from across the continent to experience Irede's wonders-and meet its beautiful courtesans.

Yet all is not well here, as shades-supernatural entities born of human desires-lurk in the shadows, their motives known only to themselves, and deep beneath the earth, something primal stirs.

When Xixu, a straight-laced military officer, arrives from the capital to become the town's newest shadeslayer, he encounters Sari, a young courtesan with hair the color of moonlight. Thus begins a tale of love and conflict, of desire and blood, and of gods and men.