{"product_id":"mardock-scramble","title":"Mardock Scramble","description":"                                            \u003cb\u003eA Future to Die For!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003cbr\u003e\r\n Reads L to R (Western Style), for audiences. \u003ci\u003eWhy me?\u003c\/i\u003e It was to be the last thought a young prostitute, Balot, would ever have…as a human anyway. Taken in by a devious gambler named Shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware Universal Tool, Oefcoque. Now a cyborg, Balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. She chases after Shell, his partner-in-crime Boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure.\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Gifu Prefecture in 1977, Tow Ubukata was exposed to a blending of cultures from early childhood until the age of fourteen, having lived in Singapore and Nepal because of his father's work. In 1996, while in college, Ubukata won the first Sneaker Taisho Gold Prize for his light novel \u003ci\u003eKuroi Kisetsu\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Season) and thus debuted as a writer. In 2003, he won the Nihon SF Taisho Award for \u003ci\u003eMardock Scramble\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published as a three-volume series. He is involved in a wide range of projects including anime production for \u003ci\u003eFafner\u003c\/i\u003e, video game production, and original content writing for comics such as \u003ci\u003eLe Chevalier D'Eon\u003c\/i\u003e. His other works include the \u003ci\u003eBye-Bye Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpiegel\u003c\/i\u003e novel series. In 2009, he published his first historical novel, \u003ci\u003eTenchi Meisatsu\u003c\/i\u003e, focusing on a mathematician of the Edo period.\r\n                                        ","brand":"VIZ Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41898030268607,"sku":"9781421537641","price":27.89,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/UFb4iZJo4FtWVohPjsC7q8onuJu31aVVprl6MeJfdgnymQ_60_60.jpg?v=1661852386","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/mardock-scramble","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}