In Volume 1, we met Akari, a human who fell asleep on a late night train and found herself in Prisontown, an otherworld purgatory for demihumans. She is given a “wife”, frankengirl Mary and each of them are assigned work duties every day by notes tacked to their door. Akari is well liked, but inefficient at best, and often incompetent. The other denizens of Prisontown become accustomed to helping Akari out of a jam, and Mary often does her own work, then helps Akari.

In Prisontown e Youkoso!, Volume 2 ( 監獄街へようこそ！ ) Akari and Mary quietly, sweetly fall in love with one another, but Mary’s body being made of random pieces makes her quite self-conscious. Even more than her body, the crime she is here to expiate weighs on her heavily. As the main holiday of the year – the Lantern Festival on Halloween night – approaches, Mary tells Akari the story of her crime. Betrayed by the creator she loved so dearly, Mary killed her…and the little sister she adored. Akari, of course, forgives Mary and the two of them spend a magnificent night together…only Akari knows it will be their last. She will be returning to the human world when the festival ends.

In the final chapter from the serialization, Akari sees Mary once more on Halloween back in the real world. The epilogue of the collected volume changes the tenor of this ending slightly, by letting us know that this meeting becomes an annual affair, and both Mary and Akari have grown, and their love has stayed the course.

Art – 7
Story – 7
Characters – 7
Yuri – 7
Service – 3

Overall – 7

If you like Neji’s demihuman stories, this is certainly another  story for you. ^_^ It’s still a pretty flimsy ending, but the second epilogue definitely make it all go down a little easier.