"Sir Leon, please guard my bedside tonight." "Give me a bonus. I'll just leave if you don't." The guard leader Leon, who appreciates a good work-life balance, and Emperor Oso, who wants to spend all his time...

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...