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A compilation artbook/manga anthology, by Range Murata, with contributions by various artists. The title aims to harness talents from global creative hotbeds like London, Paris and New York and create something more than the average manga artbook through collaborations with American and European creatives. Every issue will reveal the huge variety of talent the Japanese illustration and manga worlds have to offer, giving insight into their work and thought processes through various features.
Circumstances have intertwined the fates of five strangers. As a team of five, they make their living running a freak show. As a family of five, they live on a small covered boat together. In the midst of a terrible war, they embark to add to their number the kudan, a monster rumored to tell the future. **Note:** Won the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga. Originally a short story published in "11 eleven".
The first place a dead soul arrives after passing is the Twilight City, where the living and dead intersect. Eleven short stories about those who have died, those who are dying, and the ones still alive as they all meet in the City of Twilight. *Note: The first five chapters were serialized in Mei from vol.1 to vol.5. The rest were serialized in Yuu from vol.23 to vol.27, with the exception of chapter 10, which was newly drawn for the volume.*
A man is entwined and captured by a glamorous yet bizarre, deep-seated terror. The gears of a young man with a promising future go a little out of order when he meets a certain woman. The genius Youko Kondo vividly visualizes the decadent ghost stories recorded in the masterpiece collection of ghost stories Kurameshu by Koutarou Tanaka, the master of ghost story literature. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
*Note: Includes the following one-shots: Kaijin no Ko (海神の子), Hidaru Kami (ひだる神), Yumemiru Yubi (夢みる指).*
*Note: Nominated for the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.*
A work depicting the complicated circumstances of a divorced couple and their daughter, who tries to make sense of her familial situation...
1. **Minasoko no Yume** (水底の夢) 2. **Tsubaichi** (海石榴市) 3. **Kodomo no Toride** (子供の砦) 4. **Tsukumogami** (付喪神) 5. **Take no Nyonin** (竹の女人) 6. **Hana no Ie** (花の家)