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Six horrifying tales from the mad man Hideshi Hino. Everything from a child who loves butterflies, a mad doctor seeking perfection and boy terrorized by his father\'s tattoo. This is the original collection that Dark Horse would later take one story from to tittle their anthology Lullabies from Hell.
This story was first published in August 1969 issue of COM. It’s the fifth story in the Nagatani Kunio’s parody theater series, which was later compiled in Bakashiki-Nagatani Kunio’s Collection of Plagiarized Works (バカ式: 長谷邦夫盗作全集, Akebono, 1970). The title, “Osorochi” (おそろち), is a play on the words “orochi” (おろち), another work by Umezu, and “osoroshii” (恐ろしい), which means “dreadful, scary.” The pun is kept throughout the story every time the word “dreadful” is used. Umezu Kazuo’s name is also written with different kanji. While his name is spelled “楳図かずお”, here, Nagatani & Fujio Pro use 梅図まずお (Umezu Mazuo) as their penname. The joke is that the kanji for “plum” (梅), which also reads as “ka” is used in his family name, and his given name was turned into “mazuo,” which is a pun on “mazui” (まずい), i.e. something that sucks.
"When I talk about ‘warped manga from a warping mind’, I’m thinking about this kind of incoherent story. ‘The Human Clock’ is a lot simpler to explain. The hero is Yubi Chizuo again. He’s a student like before, but this time round he’s a dropout. He stays in his house, which is a family shop selling watches and clocks. He gazes and gazes at the clocks. Little by little, he turns into a clock. That is the entire story. It reminds me of Kafka’s Metamorphosis." from Manga Zombie.
The story of Dr. Mami, an ugly hunchback who invents a secret potion that makes her beautiful!
A slice-of-life survival comedy depicting the frank communal life of three girls as they surviving loosely while holed up in a boarding house in a town where the residents have turned into zombies! (Source: Tonari no Young Jump, translated)
Yuua Hayakawa used to love playing with Chii, a mysterious girl with a murky family life who likes collecting dead insects, but it's been years since they've spoken. Now, Chii hardly ever even comes to school. One day, Chii shows up to class in beat-up gym clothes with a handful of dead bugs and starts a commotion that gives Yuua's classmate, golden boy Koudai, an idea: he's going to save Chii, and he needs Yuua's help to do it. But clean-cut exteriors don't always promise good intentions, and the darkness in Chii may be more dangerous than Yuua had ever imagined.
One day, Ochiko, a hopelessly bullied girl, is saved by a delinquent named Ikeno while being bullied by his classmates. "Ikeno-kun is Ochiko's prince!” Ochiko believed that someday a prince would appear and kill all the bullies. However, that hope is extinguished, and Ochiko... !! Kanda Mori's first published volume, which includes 6 stories including the title work "Strange Frog Princess”! Cw: Extreme and bizarre violence! Chapter 4 features incest!
1. Shinden (The Temple) 2. Maken (The Hound) 3. Na mo naki Miyako (The Nameless City)
