Prologues, First 2 Issues:

	Prologue: "Fear the Reaper" This first issue introduces us to the city of Kyoto and the secret agency that is so secret that it is public. The Noh are pop culture icons in the city, believed to be computer generated animations used as scare tactics to keep the criminals inline, an icon of order and nationalism. In reality, The Noh polices the interaction between the government and organized crime. We witness a meeting of the Noh, and its members are introduced to us. Kabuki is instructed to take out an elderly crime lord who rules the airway, for he has become too powerful. During this attack, we learn a bit about Kabuki's past as the target's lover informs him that he is her next target. Kabuki strikes beautifully. The book ends with the beginning parts of Kabuki's past. That her mother was a young Ainu farm girl who was taken from her family during World War II, forced to serve as a comfort woman for the General's troops. It is noted the General took a liking to this young girl, and how Kabuki's mask resembles the girl's face.
	Prologue: "Dance of Death" This story take place after Fear the Reaper, and before the first act of Circle of Blood, but it is not printed in the trades. Therefor, it is not necessary to read this issue to follow along with the original storyline, but if you can get a hold of it, defiantly do. This story is very simplistic but very enjoyable. The Noh is to shut down a record company that has been found to be trafficking drugs and setting new trends in suing them among the youth. Kabuki's broadcast warns that all will be held accountable that night, as the musician know as Caterpillar waits for her to arrive. As he's fearing the death she will bring him, he dies as soon as she gets to him, from a drug overdose.
	Act One: "Ghosts in the Looking Glass" Act one reintroduces us to Kyoto, where Kabuki takes out the wife of the late crime lord, Snow. We are brought back to the Circle of the Noh, where devil gives the agents orders to take out high members of the Chinese Mafia in order to lore the criminal lord Kai out of hiding. Each member is given a member to take out. It is now learned that Kai is the General's son, who fought for Japan during the war, and grew a hatred for the comfort woman that his father grew to love. After the war, the general adopts the girl as his young ward, and then later plans to wed her. Kai is outraged by this and attacks her at a temple the night before the wedding. He rapes, cuts out her eyes, and carved the symbols for "kabuki" into her back. When the general finds her she is barely alive, and she is pregnant. She dies during childbirth, but the General raises the little girl out of obligation, and because he is reminded of his love by looking into the girls eyes. Years later Kai learns of the girl and find her by her mother's grave. He is disgusted by her existence and carves the words "kabuki" into her face, the way he carved the same word into her mothers back. The child dies, but the finest medics that money can buy managed to bring her back to life after nine minutes. During those nine minutes, the girl is with her mother, who tells her to go back as a ghost the way she did in her kabuki plays. The word that dishonored her mother the young girl now wears with pride and uses to inspire fear as she haunts the airwaves. It is revealed that the general is still the one in control of the Noh, and that Kai has in fact infiltrated them and was directing their actions for the entire time.
	Act Two: "Masks of the Noh" Each Noh agents strikes against heir targets as the General moves their likenesses as pieces on a chess board. It is believed that the General is controlling them with this, but then we see Kai playing a game of solitaire with a pack of cards he painted to match the masks of the Noh. All the while, Dove sits by the flickering light thinking of days past and the way towards the future.