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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...
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.
The story takes place in the mid-eighth century, when the capital of Heijo-kyo was in its heyday. One year, at dusk on the spring equinox, Otome, the daughter of the Fujiwara Minami family, was raised deep within the mansion to serve the local deity. When she saw a majestic figure among the peaks of Mount Nijo, she made a vow to copy a thousand sutras. A year later, having completed the task of copying a thousand sutras, she disappeared from the mansion and headed west alone. She arrived at Banpozoin, a temple at the foot of Mount Nijo that is off-limits to women. To atone for breaking the barrier, Otome was taken into a hermitage within the temple, where an old woman narrator told her the story of Shigatsuhiko and Mimimen Toji, who were beheaded fifty years earlier for treason.
Three women who have reached the age of 60 begin to live together after meeting again at a class reunion. One who could not get married, one who was a mistress, and one who no longer loves her husband. These women, who have in some ways all "failed" in life, come alive in this story of their rebirth. (Source: Number Nine, translated)