Mind Game
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Nishi, an awkward young manga artist in Osaka, has had on longstanding crush on Myon. Thing is, Myon’s got a thing for rugged Ryo. Matters come to a head at her sister Yan’s yakitori restaurant, in the presence of the girl’s dissolute father—who happens to owe a bunch of money to a pair of creepy gangsters, who’ve come to collect. Things get ugly, and Nishi gets killed in a brutal, graphic fashion. End of the story? No way, that’s just the start. Pulling a fast one on God (in all his/her/its infinite manifestations), Nishi hightails it back to Earth, where he replays the crime to his advantage, steals a car and grabs the girls. Under a hail of yakuza gunfire, he bails off a bridge—and into the mouth of a whale. There, he and his two female companions encounter a tenacious and lively old man who has set up camp in the beast’s belly, longing to someday return to human company on dry land. With no immediate exit available, the quartet make do—fishing, fighting, making love, weaving tales of strange happenings on faraway planets and dreaming of life in the real world. Will they ever set foot there again?
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Sunabouzu
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In a dry desert world lost to it own destruction, which bakes in the sun and freezes at night, where the hollow shells of abandoned buildings stand like tombstones to a forgotten age, humanity still manages to survive by preying on itself. Hidden behind a mask of mystery, Sunabozu manages to eek out a living by taking on those special jobs that are too trivial for the surviving justice system, and too tough for the bounty hunters. And if he could catch that full figured Asajiri Junko, who set him up to fight the entire Kawazu clan and then tricked him out of the bounty, he would be a lot happier. But Sunabozu always finishes any job that he accepts, even if it takes some time.
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