Manga like SPINOZA

What is SPINOZA about?

Status: Finished

In a nondescript lounge, a blonde-haired man plays a game of pool, unaware of the maddening trial he is about to face. When a voice behind him shouts, "Spinoza!" he is hit in the head with a glass bottle, knocking him out. When he awakens, he finds himself fishing in a rocky valley. A moment later, he catches a monstrous fish which swallows him whole. Coming to again, he awakens on the floor of a ring, now the contestant of a boxing match in a packed arena.

Again and again the man finds himself in entirely new locations, each time the center of a different conflict. He has little time to act, however, as he quickly finds himself awakening to a new scenario. With no end in sight, the man moves through time and space across different dimensions with only one recurring word to connect them: Spinoza.

Note: Published in PHOTO JAPON No. 26-32 (December 1985-June 1986). Each chapter is a single page consisting of 53 panels. In the tankoubon, each page is a single of these panels.

Tags: Full Color , Seinen , Episodic
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Ultra Heaven

Ultra Heaven

Also known as Ultra Heaven.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In a world where all feelings are artificial and where everyone is a potential drug addict, nothing is really changed: the excess is near at hand and very few substances are considered dangerous and put under a strict control by a hygiene office which has full power on the drug addicts who are in extreme condition.

The main character is Kabu, a little peddler and heavily addicted. Used to any kind of hallucinogenic trip, he is able to feel
the happiness through the ecstasy of the drug, while at the same time hypocritically hating who gave birth to the society that forced him the excess. After an overdose caused by mixing two incompatible drugs, he spends his days looking for stimulants until the encounter with an enigmatic man who offers him a new kind of illegal substance: Ultra Heaven.
From that moment, his incredible journey begins, where dreams and reality are fused in an undivided world, causing him hysterical and joyful reactions and unrestrained pains.

But what really is Ultra Heaven and who's really behind it? Who is the guru who is promoting the meditation as a powerful way to influence the whole universe surrounding us exploiting the quantum theory?

With the help of a special amplifier helmet, Kabu starts a trip into the deep and hidden layers of his conscience, diving into a nightmare he would never discover...

Tags: Drugs , Seinen , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Alternate Universe , Philosophy , Nudity , Cyberpunk , Tokusatsu
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Violence Becomes Tranquility

Otoko wa Dokyou

Also known as Violence Becomes Tranquility.

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Noted in Manga! Manga! by Frederik Schodt as one of the first manga published in an American publication with "its original artwork intact", "Violence Becomes Tranquility" is a short and colorful 10-page story about a yakuza on a search for the ultimate weapon.

Tags: Seinen , Full Color
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Mikakunin Prince Buttai U.P.O.

Mikakunin Prince Buttai U.P.O.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

It tells the strange story of a man riding a car and holding a book in his hands, looking for the "princess" of the book he's reading.

Tags: Seinen , Heterosexual , Nudity , War , Cars , Historical , Guns
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