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Barbara

Also known as Barbara.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a ragged hippie who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura’s shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings – all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane. Written in 1973 and 1974 and inspired by the classic opera “Tales of Hoffmann” by Jacques Offenbach, Barbara may be Tezuka’s most psychological and unsettling work, shattering the fine line between art and madness with masterful precision.



Tags: Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Writing , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Nudity , Witch , Meta , Suicide

Ue wo Shita e no Jiretta

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

A renegade television producer strikes out on his own to produce a variety show and hires a gifted singer – one who is very ugly but turns beautiful if she fasts. Now add an undead boyfriend (made that way by the television producer) and an international singing star.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Super Power

Chikyuu wo Nomu

Also known as Swallowing the Earth.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese sailors hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman in the South Pacific. Many years have since passed, and now Zephyrus has resurfaced in Japan, wielding her mysterious power over all men to exact revenge for their crimes against women since the beginning of time. Gohonmatsu Seki is the only man with the ability to resist her allure, but even he seems ill-equipped to save his gender…



Tags: Conspiracy , Revenge , Seinen , Drugs

Ningen Konchuuki

Also known as The Book of Human Insects.

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Thriller

"Human Metamorphosis," a satirical Manga depicting human society compared to the insect world, focuses on the life of a devious woman. Tomura Toshiko, who is said to be a genius, is a rising star writer. Her novel wins the Akutagawa Prize for the best novel of the year. While she attends the award ceremony, another woman named Usuba Kageri commits suicide in another place. It turns out that Kageri and Toshiko used to live together, and the awarded novel was copied from Kageri's transcript. Toshiko is like a parasite: approaching talented people one after another, squeezing everything out of them and stealing their works for her own fame. Behind her success story, she has her secrets.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Revenge , Psychosexual , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Writing , Assassins , Bisexual , Male Harem , Nudity , Crime , Economics , Tragedy , Acting , Noir , Urban , Suicide , Yuri , Foreign