Kabuki Agents: Scarab

This is te first in a series that focuses on the other Noh agents lives and how they have come to be working for the Noh. David Mack has discribed this series as "It is for Scarab what Circle of Blood was for Kabuki." The events in this story also tie up unanswered events and questions from Metamorphisis.

First four issues.
Cover to Act One Act One: Synchronicity
This first issue starts out with a series of flashbacks. First you are at present time when the Noh is infiltrating control corps (as seen in Skin Deep #3), then it flashes back to two days prior when Scarab and Tigerlily are gathered at each other's apartments telling stories, which leads to the final flashback where the most of this series takes place.

We are introduced to Scarab as a teenager and her life on the streets with best friend Seiko, and how the two of them became involved with local biker speed tribes. This leads to Scarab meeting the leader of the Malpractice tribe, Yukio, who Scarab describes to Tigerlily as her "first boyfriend."

Cover to Act Two Act Two: "Chaos By Design"
Keiko (Scarab) and Yukio get closer and enjoy their time together as Yukio realizes that he's late for an appointment with Kotaro, his boss who handed him the reigns of the tribe and now has Yukio run packages for him. This is when Yukio realizes that if he continues down this path, he will be in the same position that Kotaro is in when he gets older, which is not what he wants. Keiko and him decide to leave there lives behind and, with Seiko, will head down the coast on bikes. Seiko tells Keiko she's insane to disrespect the yamamoto gumi this way, and will join the two of them after she helps to smooth things over with Kotaro.

Cover to Act Three Act Three: "Voodoo Doll"
This issue better introduces us to Seiko, how she was raised and how she gained the morals who made her who she is today, along with how her and Keiko came to live on the streets. Seiko's plans to make nice with Kotaro are also unrelieved with a gift of a bow tie and a stuffed panda bear. Being rather insulted and demanding the girls pay him for his wasted time, this leads to a confrontation wit him and the girls which results in Seiko's death.

Cover to Act Four Act Four: "Shunga"
Keiko quickly ends the situation that left us hanging in the last issue and runs off to tell Yukio about it. He decides that that before they run off, they should deliver the last package he had from Kotaro and collect the money for their selves, but they must hurry because both the police and the yamamoto would be after them.

They arrive at a studio where adult films are being shot, and just as they are about to collect their money from their buyer, the yamamoto show up.

Thank you to Ron for letting me use his cover images.

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