A man who wants to escape his boring, repetitive life sets out on a journey. On the way, he comes across unbelievable things, terrible things.

With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character... more>> of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission to avenge and uplift his people through the sword goes horribly and gorily wrong. Though clearly intended as an anti-discrimination broadside, Bloody Stumps Samurai rubbed the Buraku Liberation League the wrong way, leading to copies being confiscated and burned and Hirata temporarily blacklisted. <<less

Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style.... more>>

A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there... <<less

A collection of twelve dreamlike stories by Nishioka Kyoudai.

A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal,... more>> with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo. <<less

The shoot of an exotic tree appears in a Tokyo street. The popular affection turns into astonishment, then horror as the Jacaranda grows to colossal... more>> proportions, burning the capital to ashes in the course of a dantean night. Though, as the sun rises survivors discover that it hasn't been a night of annihilation, but of rebirth. <<less

A collection of stories:... more>>

Kayoko Kobayashi Ax vol.14, 25th April 2000

Souvenir la tête en bas, version 2001 (UpsidedDown memories) unpublished, January 2001

Hakoniwa, histoires en trois parties (Hakoniwa, stories in three parts) unpublished, October 2001

Ladybird's Requiem Comic H vol. 9, H special number, March 2003

Une nui où je me suis coupé les ongles (A night where I cut the fingernails) Comic H vol. 64, bimonthly, December 2003

22 Comic H vol. 10, H special number, March 2004

La Chemise blanche des jours de pluie (The rainy days white blouse) AX vol. 40, 25th August 2004

Le Premier Parapluie (The first umbrella) AX vol. 40, 25th August 2004

Histoire de coupe-ongles (Nail-clipper story) unpublished, July 2003 <<less

Chapter 6: Riding The Monorail

Proud to be a Samurai, even though I'm destitute

Gag manga from innovative gekiga artist Matsumoto Masahiko. Lots of poop jokes and poor people. This is gag manga for the gekiga generation. Originally published... more>> by Hibari Comics in 1973, this 1 Volume collection was re-published by Seirinkogeisha in 2002. Panda Love was subsequently featured in Seirinkogeisha's periodical, Ax. One chapter was published in the magazine along with a poster insert, and a long interview. <<less

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Three (3) short samurai stories with seven (7) chapters from Hirata Hiroshi in The Perpetual Cycle of Revenge.... more>>

Stories Include:

1. The Great Hell Castle (Chapters 1-5)

2. The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: Bloody Daruma Warrior

3. The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: The World's Greatest Headbutt <<less

A collection of somewhat surreal oneshots featuring human-like bugs in otherwise normal rural/historical settings.

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A collection of short stories.