Umibe no Onnanoko

Koume Sato and Keisuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy seaside town. After getting used and dumped by her crush, the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a sexual relationship with Keisuke, without any emotions involved. However, they both soon discover that sex with no strings attached leads to unexpected complications, not just […]

Jikan Akima Jinbutsu

« There’s only one rule: don’t leave this apartment. » After his girlfriend was murdered, Takeshi brings the killer, Koichi, back to his apartment in order to carry out an unprecedented form of « revenge ». By treating the man who he should hate gently, what does he hope to accomplish? And what is the actual result of carrying […]

Ikenie to Rougoku

1. (先 住 者) 2. (闇 紮) 3. (纏わり憑くもの) 4. (団 欒) 5. (天井裏) 6. (罔 両) 7. (便所穴)

Kansen Rettou

In the year 2011, 3rd of January One day, a doctor name: Matsuoka Tsuyoshi treated one of his patient in the hospital. He thought that his patient only caught a normal flu, nothing serious and only needs some rest, but who knows that the 2nd day, that patient began to have most of his organs […]

Gun Frontier

It is a harsh and barren wasteland, where the weak aren’t allowed to dream. It is also a sacred land for true men, for there is no place a man can feel more alive. This is the Gun Frontier. Sea Pirate Captain Harlock and the errant samurai, Tochiro arrive in the United States on the […]

Nihon no Kyoudai

Collection of miscellaneous oneshots by Matsumoto Taiyou. 1-3. Nani mo Hajimaranakatta Ichinichi no Owari ni (何も始まらなかった一日の終わりに) – Chari no Maki (チャリの巻) – Haruo no Maki (ハルオの巻) – Matsuri no Maki (祭りの巻) 4. LOVE2 MONKEY SHOW 5. Tatakau (闘) 6. Dynamites GON GON (ダイナマイツGON GON) 7. Nihon no Yuujin (日本の友人) 8. Nihon no Kyoudai (日本の兄弟) 9. […]

Manga Sagawa-san

In the song « Too Much Blood, » Mick Jagger asks, « Do you remember the Japanese student that killed and ate his girlfriend in Paris? » That world-wide-known cannibal is Kazumasa Sagawa. After being released by French authorities for having a « mental disorder », he was sent to Japan—but Japanese psychologists couldn’t find anything wrong with his mental condition, […]

Donki Korin

Collecting six years’ worth of the column he has run in the pages of serial novel and culture critique magazine Da Vinci since 1997, Donki Korin employs a unique structural format. On the right page of every spread is a short essay sent in by a reader and chosen by Furuya, and on the left […]

Innocents Shounen Juujigun

The story takes place in Northern France in the year 1212, when the Crusades were in full swing. A 12 year old Shepherd boy named Etienne suddenly claims to be God’s chosen child, destined to reclaim the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Thanks to a blood red horn and a letter in Latin, his story is […]