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After a fateful incident, the vampire Jaspers retreated into the timeless Forest of Mist, where nothing ever changes. Having lost his beloved dog and the loyal butler who cared for him, he wallows in solitude until his sister Abi, who once left the forest for the outside world, suddenly shows up at his door. Before he knows it, Jaspers finds himself dragged back to Tokyo for the first time in 100 years, settling in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa and fumbling his way through modern life: from hunting for a life partner to figuring out how to be a proper uncle. For an immortal vampire, the hardest thing might just be keeping up with the living. (Source: Kurage Bunch, translated)
Wishing that she had never even existed, Mishiro Usui left a suicide note detailing how much she hated her boring life before she threw herself into a lake at the age of 16... but of course, that's not the end of the story. When she came to, she was in the Mirror World, a dark and wet place that was neither heaven nor hell. She had no memories of herself, nor that of her name. Looking around, Mishiro then finds a mirror into which she looks into the eyes of her reflection. Suddenly transported into a familiar room, she explores, and finds a knife on the desk. Taking it in her hands, she ends her life, and once again returns to the Mirror World, standing before a shattered mirror. Then her reflection instructed her: "Find the mirrors in this world, and break them." She then learnt the only way to regaining her past, and maybe grant her wish, is to search for all the mirrors in this world and break them by ending her life in front of them all over again.
After school, what secretly takes place in the clubroom is... a critique of canceled manga!? I, Tsukimori Tsukasa, am a high school student with dreams of becoming a manga artist. I've made it to the final selection of the manga contest in the hugely popular manga magazine, Weekly Comet. So, every day, I find myself in the manga clubroom, agonizing over storyboards as I aim for my debut... but then there's Kotori Yuu, a younger club member with an unusual obsession for canceled manga, who is always poking her nose into my business. *"You know… it’s just that you have terrible taste. It’s like you're enjoying watching a death game from a safe distance, like some rich person entertained by the plight of the poor." "No, that's not it! What I’m after is the beauty of the final moments! The aesthetics of a close call! The way the defeated live their lives!" "You’re just an extremely bothersome person!"* The manga clubroom is, as always, filled with silly conversations. *Note: The chapter count includes a prologue and an epilogue.*
*Note: originally released in Ribon New Year 1977 special issue, it was reprinted in Ribon Deluxe 1977 Summer issue.*
*Note: first released in Ribon 1976/10 special issue, it was later reprinted in Ribon Deluxe 1977 Summer issue.*
*Note: first released in Ribon 1972/10 special issue, it was reprinted in Ribon Deluxe 1977 Summer issue.*