Presented in two parts with covers that will form a diptych, Calendar Tale, narrated by our titular hero, sends us to various earlier points in the story where certain events had yet to occur--when, for instance, the shady "expert" Oshino was still in town, and the ex-legendary vampire Shinobu hadn't tired of sulking in a corner.
Weaving in a motif of ways, paths, roads, and streets--walks of life--the nostalgic vignettes hark back to the "case...