THE RAINSHADOW ORPHANS, N. ishiguroLife is hard for the inhabitants of Rainshadow City, a place where poverty and corruption are rife and where they are terrorized by an underground criminal organization known as the Lucky Crows. Toshiko, Jun and Mei Kawakami are a family, bonded through loyalty if not blood, who live outside the increasingly corrupt law and who are seeking revenge for the murder of their beloved aunt Reiko by the Lucky Crows. Haru is the son of the Emperor, destined