| abstract | - Cloth Road(クロスロオド) is a manga by mangaka Hideyuki Kurata, author of various manga such as Read or Die, and illustrator Okama. Cloth Road is 6 volumes in length in Japan (as of December 19, 2008) and is serialized in the monthly manga magazine Ultra Jump. The premise of Cloth Road is that with the increased miniaturization of computer technology, it becomes possible to integrate computers into clothing, creating clothes which are manipulatable by their wearers. Among other effects on society, this greatly increases the influence of clothing brands, and leads to the development of "War King", an event which mixes elements of a fashion show and a duel, with the models using clothes to fight one another.
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