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Oozora Mugi's boyfriend S&M club manager Inutsuka Satomi likes to tie him up! Mugi's loves him, and has gotten used to the bondage, so when his mother starts talking about wedding and grandchildren, he doesn't know if he can leave Satomi and have a regular life. But Satomi has his own ideas on how to keep Mugi contained...

Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities) ring chillingly true today. Gen and his family have long been struggling without much food, money or medicine, but despite hardships, they try to maintain a semblance of normal life. The adults are exhausted and near despair; the children take air raids and starvation more or less in stride. Nakazawa, a Hiroshima survivor, effectively portrays the strain of living in this environment and shows how efforts to stay upbeat in dire circumstances sometimes manifest as manic, irrational humor. The story offers some optimism: characters perform acts of self-sacrifice for the sake of neighbors and loved ones (e.g., when Gen's pregnant mother becomes ill from malnutrition, he and his brother pose as orphans and perform in the streets, throwing the money over the walls of their home so they won't get caught). Underneath this can-do attitude are the parents' deep guilt and sense of helplessness. When the children clamor ecstatically over a scrap of food, the parents dissolve in shame and grief. The art is sharply drawn and expressive, and the narrative has such a natural rhythm, it's easy to get pulled into the family's life, making the cataclysm readers know awaits them all the more real, intimate and difficult to take. Despite its harrowing nature, this work is invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion.

From Evil Flowers: Although this was released after the 12 volumes of Masca, it is a prequel to the main story. It shows how Caien became a demon lord, about his relationship with Rakin, The King of Speira, and the love triangle between the 2 with the beautiful Rea of the mascan race. Asarella also apears, but the story seems to be concentrating more on Rakin and Rea.

Every living being has their own world to live in. Lev, a cannibal, takes killing and eating people for granted. His friend, a murderer, chose to live with normal humans, despite his previous crimes and left Lev's world. When a human named Anna comes to live there, how will their worlds change? The worldview of Lev, who appeared in "Kansaijin To FukumenSatsujinki S** shiteiikara Korosantoite" is depicted!

Georg and Riselotte are your typical brother and sister, except the former’s a priest and the latter’s “alive” by way of…darker methods. As a result, Rise is stuck in a child-like body. Georg immerses himself in research to free Rise from these chains.

In high school, Toyoki Ashihara befriends Yu and Haru, identical twins who often switch places with each other as a joke. But, when Toyoki reveals that he can tell them both apart the twins stop. Overtime, the twins stop their gags and start cutting and dying their hair to make it easier to know who is who. Their friendship seems to go smoothly until it fades away when they graduate high school. Years later, Toyoki and Yu reunite at Haru's funeral...but is this really Haru's funeral?+

Kaji Ryusuke is a second son of a great politician. However, his father and brother both pass away from a car accident. Now, those who supported Ryusuke's father want Ryusuke to carry on the family business as a politician. At first, Ryusuke tries to get out of the responsibility, but he eventually enters an election to become a politician. This manga will view Japanese politics from Kaji Ryusuke's viewpoint.

A man get's bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins... Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a senstional and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories".

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"I wasn't supposed to go there in the first place." ‘Hyuk’, who started ‘Anonymous Chat’ because he was lonely, He even has drinks with strangers to relieve his loneliness. Then one day, news broke that one of the people attending the meeting had been killed. ‘Hyuk’ feels suspicious as he reunites with the people he had been drinking with on the same day...

Izumi, a young art student goes to visit her old professor who is living out in the country. Izumi is trying to get away from something and wants to take a break at the professor's house for a while. When she stumbles on Sensei's secret sexual fetish, it sets off a tense relationship full of awkward moments and weird demands. Adult topics, but not ecchi.

Gory Revenge Thriller about a fierce young baseball player & a high school girl teaming-up as vigilantes to punish sex offenders and brutally mutilate their dicks.