Warau Kyuuketsuki

Gichi Gichi kid is a full manga about a boy with magical powers. The same adventures of children with the unique Maruo´s vision and elegant drawings; this kid is always making good for the people; nothing to do with the autor usual works.

A collection of oneshots Hoichi the Earless: A surreal story about a boy who writes disturbing songs and who sees the spirits of the dead. Read this if only to see the intense illustration on page 27. Paradise Cabin: A group of entertainers is plagued b

Collection of short stories by Maruo. It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism. As in many of this works, he shows reference

How to make an Inugami: Bury a dog so only it's head appears above ground. Put food before it and leave it for three days. The dog wants to, but cannot eat the food, no matter how hard it tries. Three days later, it will reach the peak of hunger. The look in it's eyes will change. Decapitate it from behind at that time. Enshrine the severed head. Chant incantations. Curse those you hate.

Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire. While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse of their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kill in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in the society who slowly corrupts without being noticed? Volume 2 : Paradise. Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing to quiet their thirst of blood, joining death and love under the dream of the eternal youth. In the meanwhile a young boy, named Makoto, is looking for his lost sister Miko, disappeared years ago in mysterious circumstances. But what's really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed to become on of them? And is there really a terrible secret that someone is hiding? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed. A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for the german cinematography and Federico Fellini, where the blood is used to trace a great and only apparent amoral story.

The Caterpillar is an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. The Caterpillar is a haunting psychosexual tale of Lt. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns home to his young and beautiful wife. Sunaga initially is given a hero's welcome, but is quickly forgotten and shunned because of his injuries. Unable to speak or care for himself, he is completely at the mercy of his wife as she grows to loathe and toy with him. -From Same Hat! blog