The Lantern and the WaveIgnatz Award Nominee 2010. "Stunning" The Comics Journal. "Whom will one forgive if not one's enemies?" On Obon, The Day of the Dead, it is believed that the spirits of Japanese ancestors visit the homes of their families, and the living set paper lanterns on river waters to illuminate their path back to the netherworld. This year, in the midst of a bloody and decades long clan war, the festivities halt as the Okumura troops return from battle,