You’ve never seen manga like this before! No annoying speed lines or sappy, neotenic eyeballs here — just pure Japanese counterculture. This anthology of contemporary underground comics from Japan features a wide variety of styles and topics ranging from the humorous to the profound. There’s a whole world of comics out there, and it’s not all Godzilla and schoolgirls! A great introduction to the other Japanese comics featuring Asia’s answers to Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, and Chester Brown! List of included Oneshots: "Horse Horse Tiger Tiger" by Imiri Sakabashira "A Hooker's Room" by Naoto Yamakawa "Kisses" by Kiriko Nananan "Kitty Court Drama" by Nekojiru "What a Mixed Up World!" by Yasuji Tanioka "Million Dollars" by Yoshiharu Mitsumoto "The Abalone Cat" by Naoki and Shunichi Karasawa. *Source: Fantagraphics*

What would you do if your girlfriend shrank overnight reaching the size of a Barbie doll? This is the incredible story of Minami and his girlfriend Chiyomi. After this bad luck, the two teenagers see their lives turned upside down. Minami must now take care of his miniature girlfriend. He made her clothes, he buillts a small house to her size, takes her to the bathroom and cooks her mini-meals but how long this can last? Not easy to Chiyomi become a living toy when she is going through puberty and his hormones titillate her!

First published in 1934, Tank Tankuro was one of the most famous manga characters during the time, lining up next to Norakuro. He is said to be one of the FIRST ROBOT ever to appear in Japanese manga and may be the FIRST SUPERHERO in manga. He fights villain, Kuro Kabuto, who attacks Japan, and this Kuro Kabuto is famous among Japanese SF fans that it has resemblance to Darth Vader of Star Wars. Tank Tankuro influenced greatly, many manga artists, such as Shigeru Sugiura, Osamu Tezuka, Fujiko Fujio, etc., and is the foundation stone from which many masterpieces of manga art would spring from. Tankuro became the archetype for various Japanese manga heroes that were to follow. This work is famous for its innovative and captivating adventure stories full of surrealism, nonsense, innocence, absurdity, and eccentricity. (Source: PRESSPOP INC)

Brain Damage collects four new short manga stories, a tantalizing blend of the hilarious and the macabre. In “Labyrinth Quartet,” four identical young women trapped in an eerie building must solve the mystery of why they’ve been gathered there — while being hunted by a knife-wielding stalker. In “Curse Room,” a plucky health aide is tasked with keeping zombies peaceful, lest they go on a brain-eating rampage. In “Family Portrait,” people throughout town are strangely disappearing without a trace, and the key to it all is a senile and perverted old man. Finally, in “Blood Harvest” a series of gruesomely mangled bodies are found in pristine cars — and it appears something sinister lurks within these masses of glass and steel. (Source: Fantagraphics) 1) **4-nin no Meikyuu** (4人の迷宮) 2) **Noroi no Heya** (呪いの部屋) 3) **Kazoku no Shouzou** (家族の肖像) 4) **Chi no Shuukaku** (血の収穫)

As winter draws to a close, German boarding school student Thomas Werner dies one morning. He leaves behind a single letter addressed to his fellow student Juli that reads "Here is my love. Here is the sound of my heart." With his faith shaken to the core by the words, the scholarly Juli sinks to the depths of despair. His cynical roommate Oscar finds himself watching over Juli's fragile mental state while keeping his own feelings for Juli under wraps. Then new student Eric enters the school - and he has an uncanny resemblance to the deceased Thomas... *Originally serialized in 33 chapters in Shuukan Shoujo Comic. Chapter count includes 7 oneshots: - Senbonme no Pin (千本目のピン); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Oshougatsu Zoukan Flower Comic 1973 - Johnny Walker-kun no Bara Monogatari (ジョニーウォーカーくんのバラのものがたり); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Ciao 1973-11 - Bianca (ビアンカ); Shuukan Shoujo Friend Zoukangou 1970-07-07 - Sayo no Nuu Yukata (小夜の縫うゆかた); Shuukan Shoujo Comic Natsu no Zoukan 1971 - Aki no Tabi (秋の旅); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic 1971-10 - Shiroi Tori ni Natta Shoujo (白い鳥になった少女); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic 1971-12 - Mitsukuni no Musume (みつくにの娘); Bessatsu Shoujo Comic Oshougatsu Zoukan 1972*

The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the living, whiling away the centuries in a village of roses where time and geography have no meaning. Circumstances lead to a brother and sister, Edgar and Marybelle, being initiated into the clan too young, and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood, until a wooden stake or a silver bullet should cut them down. In this groundbreaking manga, through three immortal adolescents and the mortals whose lives they touch, Moto Hagio explores what it means to live and to die, to have loved and to have lost. (Source: Fantagraphics)

The title story features the earlier life of the character Oscar from the manga "Thomas' Heart." Due to many large and small problems that have added up over the years, Oscar's parents' marriage is collapsing. One day, after a fight that Oscar believes is going to end like all of the others, his father does something irreversible. Now Oscar and his father will have to deal with the consequences. (Source: MangaHelpers) *Notes:* \- Includes the one-shot Shiro (城) \- Includes the one-shot Egg Stand (エッグ・スタンド) \- Includes the one-shot "Tenshi no Gitai (天使の擬態; Angel Mimic)"

Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara. Then there’s a mysterious and missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grieving grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado… Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships. (Source: Fantagraphics) *Note: Winner of Japan's Science Fiction Grand Prize award in 2006.*

A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio for English speakers. This time travels through several of Hagio's most revolutionary and poignant tales that span over the years of her lush career. • *[Bianca](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=63724526240)* (1970, 16 pages) • *Girl on Porch with Puppy* (1971, 12 pages) • *Autumn Journey* (1971, 24 pages) A boy’s pilgrimage to the home of his favorite author has more meaning than either the author or his daughter can imagine. • *Marié, Ten Years Later* (1977, 16 pages) Two estranged friends learn too late how their actions had destroyed the balance of a perfect triad of intimacy. • *A Drunken Dream* (1980, 21 pages) Two scientists—one a hermaphrodite, the other a tribal priest—meet on a space station orbiting Io; but they have met before and are destined to meet again. • *[Hanshin](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=32474958889)* (1984, 16 pages) Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end? • *Angel Mimic* (1984, 50 pages) • *[Iguana Girl](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=22603280310)* (1991, 50 pages) A girl who appears to her mother and herself to be a hideous anthropoid iguana struggles to overcome her mother’s rejection and find happiness ... but her mother has a secret. • *The Child Who Comes Home* (1998, 24 pages) • *[The Willow Tree](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=22873467464)* (2007, 20 pages) A woman stands day to day under a growing willow tree and watches the people who pass by... Note: Nominated for an Eisner Award in 2011.

In the Anywhere But Here series: #V1. Yama e Iku 1. **Yama e Iku** (山へ行く; Going to the Mountains); *Flowers 2006-04* 2. **Uchuusen Unten Menkyoshou** (宇宙船運転免許証); *Flowers 2006-05* 3. **Eki made Mugen** (駅までムゲン); *Flowers 2006-12* 4. **Message** (メッセージ); *Flowers 2006-08* 5. **Anata wa Dare desu ka** (あなたは誰ですか); *Flowers 2006-06* 6. **Yureru Sekai** (ゆれる世界); *Flowers 2006-07* 7. **Kuroi Hitsuji** (くろいひつじ); *Flowers 2007-01* 8. **Kifujin** (貴婦人); *Flowers 2007-03* 9. **Vibrato** (ビブラート); *Flowers 2006-11* 10. **Yanagi no Ki** (柳の木; The Willow Tree); *Flowers 2007-05* #V2. Sphinx 11. **Oedipus: Message III** (オイディプス　メッセージIII); *Flowers 2007-09* 12. **Sphinx: Message IV** (スフィンクス　メッセージIV); *Flowers 2009-10* 13. **Umi no Ao** (海の青); *Flowers 2009-07* 14. **Aoi Door** (青いドア); *Flowers 2007-08* 15. **Sekai no Owari ni Tatta Hitori de** (世界の終わりにたった1人で); *Flowers 2007-10~11* 1 16. **Sekai no Owari ni Tatta Hitori de** (世界の終わりにたった1人で); *Flowers 2007-10~11* 2 17. **Shimauma no Q&A** (しまうまのＱ＆Ａ); *Flowers 2007-06* #V3. Haru no Ogawa 18. **Mizutama** (水玉); *Flowers 2010-02* 19. **Shampoo** (シャンプー); *Flowers 2010-10* 20. **Yuri mo Bara mo** (百合もバラも); *Flowers 2011-10* 21. **Hanayome: Message V** (花嫁―メッセージV―); *Flowers 2010-10* 22. **Umi to Shinju** (海と真珠); *Flowers 2010-11* 23. **Haru no Ogawa** (春の小川); *Flowers 2011-03* Collected separately 24. **Nanohana** (なのはな); *Flowers 2011-08* 25. **Pluto Fujin** (プルート夫人); *Flowers 2011-04* 26. **Ame no Yoru: Uranus Hakushaku** (雨の夜―ウラノス伯爵); *Flowers 2012-02* 27. **Salome 20XX** (サロメ20XX); *Flowers 2012-03*

A collection of short stories: 1. **Hanshin** (半神, Hanshin: Half-God) 2. **Ragini** (ラーギニー) 3. **Slow Down** (スロー・ダウン) 4. **Suimu** (酔夢, A Drunken Dream) 5. **Hanauzumi** (花埋み) 6. **Koucha no Hanashi** (紅茶の話) 7. **Tsuioku** (追憶) 8. **Paris Tayori** (パリ便り) 9. **Herbal Beauty** (ハーバル・ビューティ) 10. **Asobi-dama** (あそび玉) 11. **Marine** (マリーン) *Note: The one-shots "Hanshin" and "Suimu" were published in English in the manga anthology A Drunken Dream and Other Short Stories by Fantagraphics on September 27, 2010.*

A collection of one shots: 1) Ruru to Mimi 2) Suteki na Mahou 3) Cool Cat 4) Bakuhatsu Gaisha 5) Bianca 6) Porch de Shoujo ga Koinu to 7) Bell to Mike no Ohanashi 8) Yuki no Ko 9) Sebonme no Pin