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Beyond the Gate is the third chapter of MAO, written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.
Summary[]
Mao and Otoya leave the historical shopping street through the gate on the other end, with Nanoka chasing after their rickshaw. It turns out this world is Taisho Era Tokyo - May 8th 1923, to be exact. They go to a Milk Hall to discuss a string of headless corpse murders that is plaguing the city. A likely suspect is a Viscount who has started displaying unusual behavior. That night, Mao and crew head to the Viscount's mansion, as the Byouki Mao is hunting is known to possess people and use their bodies as vessels.
Plot Overview[]
To be added
Character in order of appearance[]
- Mao
- Nanoka Kiba
- Otoya
- Tenko
- Sayoko
- Haimaru (flashback)
- Nanoka's Grandfather (flashback)
- Spider Woman
- Faceless Viscount
Trivia[]
- The signs on the shop on the title page read: "カバン" = Bags. "靴"= Shoes.
- Rickshaws were independently invented in Japan circa 1869, after the lifting of a ban on wheeled vehicles from the Tokugawa period. "Rickshaw" comes from the Japanese word "jinrikisha" which literally means "human-powered vehicle". The vehicle had a wooden carriage that rode on "superior Western wheels" and was a dramatic improvement over earlier modes of transportation. By 1872, they had become the main mode of transportation in Japan.
- Nanoka left her era on May 8th 2019, to enter the Taisho era on May 8th 1923.
- The buildings on the main street are, from right to left: (1) Ginro Beer / Masahi Beer; (2) Seiyou Kissashitsu (Western Coffee Room); (3) Kudamono (Fruit) – Takai Seikaten (Takai Greengrocers); (4) Abe Keshouhin (Abe Cosmetics).
- Other signs on the main street are: (1) On the pole: Tobe Barbershop; Cosmetics Oda; (2) Flags: Erisu Beer; Ramen; Takeyama.
- Viscount: Like other major Western noble titles, "Viscount" is sometimes used to render certain titles in non-Western languages with their own traditions, even though they are, as a rule, historically unrelated and thus not 'equivalent' in relative rank. In Japanese, Shishaku (子爵) or Shi is the fourth of the five peerage ranks established in the Meiji era, based both on the British viscount and Zhou Chinese zi.