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Sion no Niwa takes place in the Sion Botanical Research Institute, which is visited by those afflicted with mysterious diseases. The main story is divided into four parts. "Spring: Symbiosis" follows a girl with mysterious regenerative properties and her older brother. "Summer: Midsummer Ocean Night" follows a young boy; within his body grow plants. At night, he is charmed by a mysterious beauty, but he cannot meet her. "Autumn: One Night, One Thousand Years" follows a woman who loses her memory every 15 hours. Meanwhile, the mysterious fungi that grows in her body begins to subsume her. "Winter: Renatus" follows a man who recently received a heart transplant and now lives in loneliness. Inside a dream that takes place in a strange bamboo grove, he witnesses a girl who who flees from him. (Source: Comic Natalie, translated)
Aya Takano, a contemporary artist who fluidly eludes concrete classification of global art world melts in her saucepan everything from present/future, male/female to cruelty/utter sweetness spiced up with Japanese teenagers' arrogance into the “Jelly Civilization," a curiously antique Sci-Fi world 200 years from now. It's a super sustainable utopia where androgynous creatures live and love in a sweet decadence of subtle perversion without being hurt by anything - no square-ish gadgets or buildings Takano has always hated since childhood and everything is made of a jelly-like soft substance which will eventually dissolve into the soil.
A collection of 12 stories about a girl living between cyborgs in a world where its population has cut below 5.000 people due to the influence of nuclear war. (Source: Natalie, adapted)
