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There is a website for suicides appearing on the internet only at midnight and when certain specific keywords are searched. Although it is supposed to be only a mere urban myth, girls who have performed the ritual suddenly disappeared. High school paranormalist Naho Saenoki launches an investigation to shed light on this gruesome incident while the amount of victims keeps increasing. And then, it happened to Naho herself...
A wacky-loser comedy about Lord Belial, one of the Four Heavenly Generals. *Includes 4 bonus chapters.*
Mishikima-kun is a very shy second year high school student who loves gardening and has problems socializing, which makes it difficult for him to interact and make friends. One day he meets Mori-san, a girl with a very serious expression and who transforms into a tree every time she gets nervous...
Seiichi Hayashi produced Red Colored Elegy between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of sparse line work and visual codes borrowed from animation and film, the quiet melancholy lives of a young couple struggling to make ends meet are beautifully captured in this poetic masterpiece. Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping--together and at times with others. While Ichiro attempts to make a living from his comics, Sachiko's parents are eager to arrange a marriage for her, but Ichiro doesn't seem interested. Both in their relationship and at work, Ichiro and Sachiko are unable to say the things they need to say, and like any couple, at times say things to each other that they do not mean, ultimately communicating as much with their body language and what remains unsaid as with words. Red Colored Elegy is informed as much by underground Japanese comics of the time as it is by the French Nouvelle Vague, and its cultural referents range from James Dean to Ken Takakura. Its influence in Japan was so large that Morio Agata, a prominent Japanese folk musician and singer songwriter, debuted with a love song written and named after it. "I wanted to live like Sachiko and Ichiro; to have aspirations even while living stoically and humbly." --Morio Agata (Source: Drawn and Quaterly)
Seiichi Hayashi (b. 1945) was a leading figure in Tokyo's hotbed of avant-garde artistic production in the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for Garo, the famous alternative comics magazine. The present volume collects a handful of Hayashi’s most important manga from this period, including “Red Dragonfly” (1968), “Yamauba’s Lullaby (1968), and “Gold Pollen” (1971). Published here in their original full color, these stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop Art sensibilities, and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the shadow of America over 60s Japanese youth culture. (Source: PictureBox)
One of Hayashi's early contributions to the alternative manga magazine Garo, Flowering Harbour is a love story filtered through the aesthetics of enka music, known informally as "Japanese blues".
High-school girl Kamigaya Kai often gets confessions. She then poses a requirement "If you let me stab you to death, I'll give my love to you.". This way people don't reaproach her in her quest to live her boring life, with boring parents, boring school colleagues and boring media. Kuwashima Kusabi, a seemingly plain girl brightens the world that is "boring" to Kamigaya Kai. It first seemed like she was the 5th confession that turned someone off, but she ran home instead to fetch a sturdier knife.
After Yune returns to Japan, Alice can't seem to forget about her, so she decides to go visit Yune herself! Each chapter in this series features "quickies" that show the daily lives of Alice and Yune having fun being silly in Japan! Each page links to the next in a sequence of events that help build the story as it progresses!
**Tokeimawari no Natsuyasumi:** Ichihara and Takase are dating but recently all they do is fight. Soon there is a summer festival in their town, will Takase remember the good times before they started fighting and what has happened to Ichihara? Include six other one-shots from different mangakas: Mashou no Onna - ichtys Papurika, piman, tougarashi - Yoshino Satsuki DEAREST LOVER - Matsumoto Satoya Change! - Tsukuda Hanna Neko to Kemuri - Hanazawa Chika Sensei, Ano ne - Hotta Kiichi
