: Just before the start of the French Revolution, a commoner named Gerard pays a visit to a high-class brothel, where he sleeps with, and then buys the freedom of Jacques, a young noble sold into prostituti...

A gate appears in Tokyo's Ginza district sometime in the 21st century. From the gate pours out monsters, knights from middle-age Europe, and other fantasy-like beings, and they kill many of the citizens of T...

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...

Comic essays on the gay industry and LGBT issues by Mochigi, who first worked in the industry as a gay prostitute in Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo, and has since worked in gay bars and gay videos. Warning: Matur...

In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted ...