In this highly popular adventure fantasy based on the best-selling manga, Rohan Kishibe - a young manga artist - meets a mysterious, beautiful woman who tells him of a cursed 200-year-old painting. The painting was created using the blackest ink ever known, taken from a 1,000-year-old tree that the painter cut down without the approval of the Emperor. The painter was executed for this, but the painting was saved from destruction by a curator of the Louvre. Rohan visits Paris and asks the museum to unearth the painting from deep within its archives - but he is completely unprepared for the power of the curse he will unleash.