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

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

A collection of twelve dreamlike stories by Nishioka Kyoudai.

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

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

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

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