'Teki' means enemy. The 77-year old protagonist Gisuke Watanabe in Teki Cometh (Japanese title: Teki) can't quite figure out the exact identity of that enemy but he's aware it's coming to destroy him. Will the enemy be upon him today or next week? Does he still have time to do something, anything? And then, mercifully, Gisuke dies. That's not a spoiler, but a [...]
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