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Status: Finished

A sublimely eerie manga adaptation of classic Kafka stories, with a starkly beautiful illustration style – part of Pushkin's second series of Japanese novellas.

Nine of Franz Kafka's most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and sister manga creators Nishioka Kyodai . With their distinctive, surreal style of illustration, they have reimagined the fantastic, the imperceptible and the bizarre in Kafka's work, creating a hauntingly powerful visual world.

These stories of enigmatic figures and uncanny transformations are stripped to their core, offering profound new understandings.

The Cares of a Family Man
The Metamorphosis
The Bucket Rider
Jackals and Arabs
A Fratricide
The Vulture
A Country Doctor
A Hunger Artist
In the Penal Colony

Tags: Classic Literature , Anthology , Dystopian , Foreign , Tragedy , Torture , Family Life , Henshin , Body Horror

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Henshin

Also known as The Metamorphosis.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Manga version of the novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

Tags: Tragedy , Family Life , Body Horror , Classic Literature , Historical , Animals , Foreign

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107 Goushitsu Tsuushin

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

"Only I can remember what everybody else forgot." A collection of very short stories, almost poems, focused on a woman who takes on different roles. Surrealistic, slice-of-life, psychological, and sci-fi themes coexist in this volume, expressed in pale, ethereal hues.

Tags: Episodic , Female Protagonist

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Tsumi to Batsu

Also known as Crime and Punishment.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

In Russia, on the eve of the revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikovs’s own published essay - suggesting that people who are “extra-ordinary” are above such things as “right” and “wrong” - draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry … or his own guilty conscience?

Tags: Foreign , Classic Literature , Historical , Shounen , Philosophy

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Comikey

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Frankenstein

Also known as Frankenstein.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster—and the fouler beast who created him—to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro he is known for.

Tags: Tragedy , Body Horror , Foreign , Historical , Male Protagonist , Shoujo , Crime

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Viz

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K no Souretsu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

A resident of Room 301 in Building 67, K, had died and no one had seen or was able to find his corpse. Everyone, however, was still certain that he was dead and held a funeral for him. That was when a stranger named Mikaya suddenly showed up and announced that he was going to live in 301. Determined to solve the mystery of this far from ordinary death, Mikaya began to question the residents and as everything began to unravel, he realized that something was very, very wrong.

Note: Includes one prologue and three extra chapters.

Tags: Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Suicide , Josei , Heterosexual , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Drugs

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Kyuusai no Hi

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

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

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...

Tags: War , Philosophy , Denpa , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist

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Cthulhu no Yobigoe: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn—“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Now these nightmares will disturb the sanity of Francis Thurston, a young man pursuing an investigation into the cult of Cthulhu that leads to the most forsaken spot in the vast Pacific…and to Earth's supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh.

Tags: Cosmic Horror , Cult , Seinen , Foreign , Ships , Classic Literature , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Kaiju

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