The monster was pulled out of the sea by Dr. Frankenstein and given life, but then took the life of its creator and set out alone into the city. This is where the story begins. The monster roams the city, causing terror and destruction. What will be its final fate? In addition to the title story, this book also includes the stories "Yunte", "The Day the Crane Flew" and "Mountain Demon Gongoro." (Source: Sukima, translated)

It is a story about Bobo, a man with a cross star on his forehead, and his friends' epic journey and adventure to build an ideal country. (Source: Sukima, translated)

1. **Zouroku no Kibyo** (蔵六の奇病) Zoroku, a simple country man, lives together with his parents and sister. One day he falls ill and rainbow blotches start appearing all over his body, so he has to leave his town to live alone in the woods. 2. **Mizu no Naka** (水の中) 3. **Hatsuka Nezumi** (はつかねずみ) 4. **Hyakkanme** (百貫目)

Released December 25th of 1976

Machida Masayuki's gloomy dramatic horor masterpiece that never gives you a break from tension and fear! The haughty and selfish Tsushima Yumi is the daughter of a company president and lives in a lavish mansion. 　She has fallen in love with a male student in a different class named Sasaki, however, he already has a girlfriend, a female student named Miyoshi, who is Yumi's rival. 　Yumi, who is filled with hatred for Miyoshi, enlists the help of Takako, whose family works at Yumi's father's company, and puts a plan into action. 　The plan is to place a bottle of sulfuric acid with a loose lid on a shelf during science class so that it will fall on Miyoshi. Everything 　goes according to plan, and Yumi ends up with half of her face covered in sulfuric acid.......

A Western-style mansion stands in a remote area, far from civilization. 　Hiruta, a scientist who studies moths, lives there with his two daughters, Junko and Yuko, and in the basement of the mansion, their insane mother is held captive. 　Junko, who is blind in one eye due to an injury she suffered as a child, is jealous of the beautiful Yuko and is always harsh to her. 　However, Junko is not Hiruta's real daughter. 　Thirteen years ago, when Junko and Yuko were still babies, Hiruta, who had lost his wife, worked as an assistant to Dr. Fujita Kazuo, an authority in the medical field. 　Hiruta's child, Yuko, was cared for by Dr. Fujita's wife along with Junko, who was born around the same time. 　One day, Dr. Fujita succeeded in extracting a compound from moth scales that dramatically increased healing abilities.

The Akanuma family lives in the mountains on a small island. Kotomi, the older sister, is constantly compared by her parents to Shoko, who is one year younger than her. Shoko is kind and intelligent, and is the favorite of her parents. This makes Kotomi increasingly jealous, and her hatred for Shoko grows... Thinking that if Shoko becomes ugly, she will be able to gain her parents' love, one winter day, Kotomi pushes Shoko into the stove where the kettle is kept, boiling water pours onto her face, and Shoko suffers severe burns to the right half of her face, but contrary to expectations, her parents' love for Kotomi grows ever further away. Time passes, and Kotomi is 18 and Shoko is 17. Shoko has an ugly burn scar on the right side of her forehead, but she grows into a beautiful young woman. Meanwhile, Kotomi continues to be treated harshly by her parents. One summer night, when Kotomi wakes up to get some water, she overhears her parents whispering. They say that Kotomi is an adopted daughter. Kotomi is filled with hatred when she learns the reason for their cold treatment. The next day, she pushes her father down a well, then lures her mother into the storehouse, burns her face with sulfuric acid, and imprisons her. After her parents go missing, Kotomi starts to bully Shoko. One day, her sister's pen pal, Tetsuo Hiroi, comes from Tokyo to visit the island. His appearance leads the sisters' feud to a terrible downfall...

A comic transposition of six stories taken from classical Japanese literature, interpreted by Hideshi Hino. *Note: Re-released on March 16, 1987 under the name "Rashoumon no Youkai" (羅生門の妖怪).*