Island Volume 4 GN

Tokyopop Manga
Island Volume 4 Graphic Novel

Introduction: Cheju Island is a tourist spot off the coast of Korea. With 45 giant Tolharubang statues erected around the island, Cheju is a land out of time. Like the Moai of Easter Island, the origins of the Tolharubangs remain shrouded in mystery. But locals believe the statues are guardians from evil spirits - demons that devour human souls.
Miho has no time for superstitions. She came to Cheju Island to begin a new life and work as a teacher. But nothing prepared this rich daddy's girl - who's been coddled all her life - for what she finds upon her arrival - the body of a young woman, mauled almost beyond recognition. Old myths and superstitions prove deadly and real in a killer who is something less than human.
No Tolharubang can save her, and Miho escapes with her life only by virtue of help from the mysterious Pan. With a stone cold, icy stare, he walks among monsters with no fear, and kills with ease. A guardian of a different sort, maybe ... but, is he a hero or an even greater monster?
In a world where everything Miho knew to be true is false; where the shadows kill and demons walk the Earth ... she may ultimately learn that the purest evil resides in the heart of man.

This Volume's Story: Six years ago, more than 100 people were massacred at the Japanese Institute for Health. The only clue to the deaths was a human skull. Similar skulls are now appearing on Korea's Cheju Island, and the dying has begun anew. Korean authorities are at a loss as to what they should do, so a Japanese Interpol agent and a trio of spiritual fighters are called in to clean up the mess. Is the source of the skulls' power really a new retrovirus like the Interpol agent says, or are there more sinister forces at work?