Otto Malpense is a pupil at H.I.V.E., the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, where along with his friends he is being educated to play a part in G. L. O. V.
It is April 2142. For over 100 years, people have been taking Longevity, a drug that is a serendipitous discovery of a failed search for a cure for cancer.
In Prague, the mysterious Karou is a blue-haired, tattooed art student with ex-boyfriend troubles, whose 93 sketch books are filled with fantastic creatures: bare-breasted women who are snakes from