From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English. Personally selected for publication exclusively by Landmark Books by Tatsumi, the stories strip away the gloss of the Japanese Economic Miracle to reveal the stresses, desires and angst of the millions of young people who flocked to the cities where life was not what it was promised to be. Compared to Tatsumi’s earlier stories, this collection paints a much more pessimistic world. The stories run on a different beat. The banality of modern life and its values bleed through. Yoshihiro Tatsumi plumbs the depths of the lost Japanese youth of the 1970s. Today, ‘youth’ of every age group appreciates Yoshihiro Tatsumi. They are attracted to him because they connect with the struggles and the darkness of modern life which he portrays. Story list Midnight Fisherman Welcome Home Daddy The Dawn of Porn Run with the Midnight Train My Boobs The Woman's Palace Hometown Misappropriation The Lantern Angler

*This volume contains the following chapters:* Cover illustration: Fly 1. **Kagerou no Koe** (かげろうの声) by Kawanami Izumi 2. **Hishatai Izon** (被写体依存) by Goumoto 3. **Toshoshitsu no Anoko wa,** (図書室のあの子は、) by Tsuji Megumi 4. **Sore ga Ano Musume no Hoshii Mono** (それがあの娘のほしいもの) by Canno 5. **Oshigoto Ganbaru Kimi ga Suki** (おしごとがんばるキミがスキ) by Amano Shuninta 6. **Hidari no Ashikase** (ひだりの足枷) by Itou Hachi 7. **Imouto no Ice Cream** (妹のアイスクリーム) by Takahashi Mako 8. **4-ninme no Onna** (４人目の女) by Matsuzaki Natsumi 9. **Ageha, Tobu** (揚羽、翔ぶ) by Yoshidamaru Yuu 10. **Slit (Slit)** by Ikeda Takashi 11. **Doko kara to ka Koi ka to ka** (どこからとか恋かとか) by Morinaga Milk

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Ken drinks too much at his friend Yoshio's bar, so he is put to sleep upstairs. He reminisces on his childhood, including a traumatizing experience where he walked in on Yoshio's mother having sex. (Source: Wikipedia)

A lost hiker asks for directions from a woman at a hut. However, she leads him to fall into a trap and the woman refuses to let him out. (Source: Wikipedia)

A worker who cuts sheet metal in a plant loses his arm so that his spouse can use the million-yen payout to open her own club. Spending his days idly, he purchases a tank of piranhas. One day, after spotting her outside a hotel with another man and getting criticized by her, he submerges her wrist in the tank and she is bitten. She leaves him and he returns to work at another sheet metal plant. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kizaki, a push man, helps a woman after her shirt rips. She has sex with him, and later brings him to a "date", where instead two of her friends rape him. The next day, while attempting to push during a particularly chaotic rush hour, he is pushed inside the train himself. He yells to be let off, but slowly relaxes. (Source: Wikipedia)

A sixty-year old retired salaryman lives alone in a hut alongside a river. He develops a recurring rash which he discovers to be psychosomatic. One day he discovers a woman who had tried to commit suicide and she stays with him to cook. The man learns how to control the rash as well as his erection. Feeling reinvigorated, he leaves a phallic mushroom in the woman's bed at night. (Source: Wikipedia)

Two hundred years after the hero defeated the Demon Lord. Mankind is now dominated by cat beastmen known as felismans, and humans are now treated as an inferior species. Naomi, a female knight who is a rare human in this era but is skilled in battle, continues to perform well on the battlefield, but one day she is suddenly pulled back to Kortegodelrej, the royal capital. Naomi is disappointed, but when she is assigned to her new post, a suspicious woman she meets at her new post takes a liking to her. Who is the woman? And what are the true identities of felismans? from amaitorte.jp

Watch as Yuka, a top hostess, uses her feminine wiles to foil conniving men and climb to the top of the nightclub business. From Manga Reborn

Tokyo, Japan, in the near future. Azami, a woman kidnapped by a mysterious human trafficking ring, is rescued by Fa’on, a werewolf. The city police discover that a yakuza alliance is involved in the trafficking, but they can’t identify the responsible family. Fa’on decides to infiltrate the yakuza and takes Azami with her. Being a regular human, Azami has no choice but to transform herself into a werewolf in order to protect herself. Thus begins the adventures of the two wolves, Azami and Fa’on.

In this fantasy world of The Mage of Basilico, citizens of Potpouripolis are exposed to the threat of dangerous magical beasts appear often from the deep woods surrounding the city. An ordinary high school girl cat, Mulberri, and the young female mage, Tetri, fight together against the magical beasts to save the day. But unlike her position as a mage, Tetri never uses her magic during battles, or anywhere in front of people. One day, Mulberry wondered why the mage keeps her magic secret... Originally published as a webcomic.