Demon City Shinjuku, home to monsters and magicians alike. The warlock GentoRoran has broken his fifteen-year slumber and seeks dominion over the city. Nowresurrected from his accursed sarcophagus, he is accompanied by the Hyota, the“small superman.” A secret seal has proclaimed that “Those whocontrol Demon City will control the world.” And so the stage is set for afateful battle between Gento and Setsura Aki! Meanwhile, Doctor Mephisto, theDemon Physician, is treating a curious new patient — a girl named Mayumi.Any man who has sex with her dies soon afterwards! This deadly cause and effectappears to be nothing more than coincidence at first. But only at first. And,assassination squads possessed of the most unusual ways of dealing death comeafter Setsura. One after the next, he’s caught up in the fight of hislife! What is this secret seal? And how is it connected to Mayumi?
Hideyuki Kikuchi has again unleashed his creative powers in a thrilling andhair-raising tale of the supernatural in Maohden!

Visual artist(s): Joe Infurnari, Sandy Jarrell, Kevin Volo