A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 1) **Jigoku** (地獄, Hell); *Weekly Playboy 1971/9/14~21 issues* 2) **Nenbutsu Race** (念仏レース); *Manga Times 1973/11/24 issue* 3) **Chikadou Hotel** (地下道ホテル, The Subway's Hotel); *Manga Goraku 1975/4/10 issue* 4) **Tenohira no Machi** (手のひらの街, The City in the Palm of His Hand); *Manga Times 1973/12/22 issue* 5) **Tatsui no Kawa** (殺意の川); *Young Comic Zoukan 1973/9/25 issue* 6) **Pocket no Naka no Onna** (ポケットの中の女); *Young Comic Zoukan 1973/1/9 issue* 7) **Ai no Hanayome** (愛の花嫁, Love's Bride); *AX Vol.34* 8) **Shita Tsuzumi** (舌つづみ); *Comic Magazine 1979/4/19 issue* 9) **Iro Zange** (色ざんげ); *Young Comic Zoukan 1974/1/8/ issue* 10) **Hana Kurabe Koi Asobi** (花くらべ恋遊び) 11) **Ningyo wo Tsuma ni Shita Otoko** (人魚を妻にした男); *Manga Times 1978/9/29 issue* 12) **Shoufu no Senki** (娼婦の戦記, Chronicle of the Whores's War); *Manga Times 1973/8/25 issue* 13) **Kawaita Machi** (乾いた街)

If I could describe it in a few words, I’d say “poetic”, “lonely”, and “deliberate”. There’s a touch of the sadness that comes at the end of summer, the transition into cold and quiet. It feels heavy with undertones. Every word seems deliberate and filled with meaning. (Source: kittenpatriot)

A child asks her teacher some questions about angels.

“For me, annihilation was eternal liberation.” Having become introverted from distrust of humanity, he stopped attending university and shut himself away in a single apartment room. He harbored a desire akin to suicidal thoughts—wishing to abandon everything and live in a closet, no, to become the closet itself. And then one day... the man's face had become like a small closet... Evicted from his apartment, reduced to homelessness, immersed in a world of degradation—where would his wandering life ultimately lead? This controversial work, hammering the story of one man's bizarre fate onto the printing block as it pushes absolute loneliness to its ultimate extreme, is finally complete!! A manga entirely from traditional woodblock prints. (Source: Seirin Kougeisha, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*

Lost on their way back from delivering flowers, Kazushi and Ryukku wander into dark, dense forest. They meet mysterious girls there and find out the truth that was locked away... The story of a supernatural forest thick with foreshadowing. *Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.*

A boy goes fishing in the forest, and is invited to dinner by a strange old man.

A sweet, sentimental tale of young love told in a charming visual style. This story originally appeared in volume 53 of the Japanese alternative comics anthology AX.

Lovely poetic one-shot.

*Note: Includes the following one-shots: Kaijin no Ko (海神の子), Hidaru Kami (ひだる神), Yumemiru Yubi (夢みる指).*