Staffed by murderous maids and situated on a war-ravaged island, the Voynich Hotel is far from your run-of-the-mill vacation destination--but it’s not such a bad... more>> place to lie low for ex-yakuza Kazuki Taizou, who’s on the run from his so-called family. As he settles into his weird new life, this darkly comedic manga winds through plots both nefarious and romantic, delving ever deeper into the island’s witchy--and sometimes demonic--strangeness. <<less

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Based on Atlus' Nintendo 3DS game and tells an untold story in the game's world.

Minazu Aruto loves reading novels and short stories so a classmate recommends a club that the school has called Philosophia. The classmate doesn't really know what the club is about but the name sparks a curiosity in Aruto and he decides to find out what it is. ... more>>

He goes to the old library on campus where he meets and is introduced to all three members of the group: Tomoe, Takaho and Kaede. Still without knowing what the Philosophia club is about, Aruto finds himself joining what he thinks is a literature club. <<less

Kuro & Marco is the first non-guro work from noteworthy guro mangaka Horihone Saizou. The titular story has four chapters. It’s an eccentric one about space kids who live in some kind of bizarre alternate universe solar system, where comets are giant dogs, robot people live in a certain part of the the asteroid belt, animal people live on other planets, and the earth is still ruled by dinosaurs. ... more>>

The other stories in the book are various thematically unrelated shorts, but it’s worth noting that he still managed to sneak a story in about tearing organs out of live prisoners, even though it lacked explicit depictions of violence (apparently, an actual Japanese practice in the old days). <<less