Matsuri Akino (秋乃 茉莉 Akino Matsuri), is a Japanese manga artist from Mitaka, Tokyo, now a resident of Yokohama. Her work is a mix of the fantasy, mystery, and horror genres. Her self portrait is usually a kappa, sometimes with braids or an odango hairstyle.
This volume is pretty graphic in terms of violence. The plot is building nicely though and it's more enjoyable than some of the previous volumes. Finally the stories start to collide and you start to get a bit more information.