A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio f...

A compilation of short stories: • Bannin (The Guardian) Kazuhiko Saibara finds himself dead in the woods surrounding his family's summer villa. As the family servant digs his grave, Saihara's feeble-minde...

Perverts are people who know the shape of their desires. They have carefully traced those contours like a blind man using both hands to measure the shape of a vase." Colette works in a brothel in early 20th ...

A 30-year-old man attends the funeral of his grandfather who lived for 100 years and begins to reminisce about his family and his first love.

The snake spirit Yi Mo and a scholar Shen Qingxuan met each other over a cup of tea. After Shen Qingxuan finally left with regret, Yi Mo realized that he counldn't live without him, so he pursued Shen Qingxu...

A collection of short stories. 1. The Moonlight One midwinter night, some female prostitutes picked up a child, Kiyohito, in the red light district. He is forced to take clients at age 14; and in two years, h...

Original Web Comic: Twitter, Pixiv Note: This short comic won the Grand Prix of the 【仕事探しはスタンバイ】 Manga Award, sponsored by CORK Inc. The theme was "A job I wish I could have in 2050....

Where there are people, there is drama and troubles to be solved. Marnie's father works as a detective to solve problems created between people, whether they are marriage issues or murder cases. Just like he...

Meno Yuko just starting as a ceremony assistant in a funeral home. Every day, she tends to fall asleep during the funerals. Her boss, Meme always scolds her with an 'I'll kill you'. Holding on the the memori...

When Kuroi returns to his room there’s a man who looks like a yakuza! And he's a self-proclaimed angel with wings...? Atami Michinoku's quintessential work has finally started!

“Liars who lose their way in the forest can never come back out.” Masanori receives the news of the sudden death of his best friend, Shintarou, who had gone to live in Tokyo. The night of the funeral, w...

Professor of folklore, Mozu and his assistant, Miyako. The pair rushes to funerals all over Japan today! At some point, Mozu seems to be pitiful. Although it was a city that worried about him, three suspic...

She was an older woman, a summer encounter, that gave Umino Nijito the best sex he ever had but then she disappeared... Nijito has never stopped thinking about her while trying to make a living working at a ...

Yousuke's sister disappeared one day, and even as the adults seem to despair and give up, Yousuke never did. Then one day, he goes down to the spot where she had disappeared and there waiting for him was... ...

A beautiful and eccentric man, Miwa, arrives at Junoka, a man who runs a pet funeral home, following the family business of his grandfather who died alone in a rural town of Kyushu. He was a genius embalmer...

A drama story that begins from a funeral. A no-selling actress, Izumi Otomura (age 28) has pride in herself even though she keeps getting cast to play the dead. One day she was offered a role as MC for her m...