June 1, 2007
Gotos tormentor continues the deadly game begun in volume 4 of Tsuchiya and Minegishis creepy noir exercise. One of the mans oilier minions spurs Goto into contacting the woman who taught the sixth-grade class in which Goto and his nemesis met, and in which Goto somehow offended the other boy so greatly that Goto was secretly imprisoned for 10 years as a result. Whatever Goto learns is ultimately offset by the revelation that his antagonist is more duplicitously manipulative than Goto had yet suspected. If the movie made of Old Boy was a tenth as mysterious and dangerously good-looking, no wonder it won all those awards.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)