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**Note:** *Each part of Tomie: Nottori was released as a booklet bundled with the three-part kanzenban version of the Itou Junji: Collection DVDs.*
A young boy named Toshio and his friends, while exploring an abandoned factory, are taken captive by gangsters. Toshi unwittingly discovers a signal device that will summon the cyborg superhero Electric Man Arrow. Arrow comes to the rescue, and, after vanquishing the gangsters' giant robot, entrusts Toshio with the signal device. However, the gangsters' mysterious leader X Fighter learns of this and uses Toshio in his plot to frame Arrow for a string of deadly sabotages. When Arrow finally confronts X Fighter for an explosive showdown, the shadowy link between the two superhumans is finally revealed. In the final chapter of this volume, Arrow faces an entirely different sort of problem, what to do with a gigantic dinosaur that scientists have discovered deep below the earth.
Junior high student Ken Ishii is good at nothing but getting out of trouble. An unidentified man appears before Ken as he is running away from hoodlums trying to pick a fight, like usual. The man asks "Do you know Zuieki Nogi?" and Ken shakes his head. Two onlookers observe them from a hiding place. The unidentified man unleashes a monster, catching Ken who is unable to get free. On the verge of death, something changes within Ken’s body…!? “Stand up as a ‘Shinobi’leader!” This is his destiny, to be shackled to a dying shinobi family’s fate... (Source: Jmanga)
Ashigaru, knight, viking, Spartan, assassin, combat merchant... Various foot soldiers from all over the world converge on a once peaceful apartment. Pillaging and violence disrupts the owner's his dream of an easy life as a property manager. With his sister joining the fray, will he be able to keep the peace on his apartment? (Source: Japanese Publisher, translated) *Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.*
A one-shot about a strange curse visited on a family after an archaeological dig. One-shot in celebration of 30 years of Itou Junji's career.
The "witch hunts" in the 16th century, when tens of thousands died after being persecuted. There was a doctor who tried to save people who were condemned as witches in that crazy era with the power of medical treatment. This is a historical drama about Johann Weyer, a real doctor who was also a pioneer in psychiatry. (Source: Asahi Shinbun Shuppan, translated)
A salaryman stressed out by his day job wakes up to a ghost threatening to kill him. In pure desperation, he shouts out that he'd rather be killed by a "cute cat-girl". And then…!? *Note: Originally self-published, after it won the 1st Asahi Horror Comic Award in 2021 it was commercially re-published in the 2022 July issue of Nemuki+ magazine.*
Inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote, the author criticizes heartless individualism and indifference in modern Japan, as seen through the eyes of an old man, who, although childish with age, sees the truth of things.
Adol Christin, a young man from the mainland, sails to the besieged land of Esteria in search of adventure. Esteria is being overrun by beasts under the control of the evil priest Dark Fact, and the people of the land are running out of time. However, there is a prophecy that tells of a hero from another land who will come to save Esteria—and his name would be Adol Christin.
4-koma (four panel strip) parody-comedy featuring characters from The Rose of Versailles by the original author.
The cafe owner Mikumo and general store shopkeeper Yano have their shops directly above and below each other in the same building. The two seem so close, but aren't a couple -- and their oh-so-frustrating "romance" is being silently witnessed by the most unlikely of beings.
