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A MUSHROOM TRIP LIKE NO OTHER​In the days that followed the end of the world, few could have predicted the Rust Wind, a phenomenon that swept across Japan like a plague, choking the life from the land and its people and corroding flesh into brittle, iron sand. No one knows how the Rust began, but one mushroom-wielding renegade known as Bisco Akaboshi, the Man-Eating Redcap, is determined to bring about its end. He’s the latest in a long line of Mushroom Keepers, and together with the dashing young doctor Milo Nekoyanagi, the two will brave the horrors and wonders of the Iron Desert in search of the Rust-Eater: a mythical mushroom rumored to have the ability to cure the ailment once and for all.

A MUSHROOM TRIP LIKE NO OTHER In search of a cure for Bisco’s immortality the Man-Eating Redcap and Panda venture to the holy land of Shimane. Once there, they have an unexpected brawl with the legendary monk Kelshinha. During their fight, he rips Bisco’s stomach right out of his body—and with it, his edge over the symbiotic Rust-Eater spores ravaging his very DNA—before making off with it. Now Bisco and Milo must hunt down this death-defying madman and retrieve the vital organ before the Rust-Eater kills Bisco in five days’ time. Sure, he didn’t want to be immortal in the first place, but this is not the cure Bisco had in mind!

A MUSHROOM TRIP LIKE NO OTHER Having rid the world of the Immortal Monk—Kelshinha—the pair of Man-Eaters travel to Bisco’s ancestral homeland in Shikoku, picking up Tirol somewhere along the way. Once they arrive, Mushroom Keepers young and old venerate Bisco as a living god, throwing celebration after celebration in his honor (much to his dismay). Festivities are cut short, however, when a red-haired man named Apollo crashes the party! He manipulates mysterious, glowing blue particles at will, and wherever they land, skyscrapers sprout with all the ferocity of a mushroom arrow! His goal? Restore Japan to the way it was in the year 2028. In order to understand the significance of that year, Bisco, Milo, and Tirol need look no further than the Tokyo Crater…

The Six Realms Penitentiary is a legendary prison so vast and so intricate that many have come to call it the prison city. Hot on the trail of the Akaboshi Mark I, Bisco and Milo find themselves in Kyushu, and there they receive the troubling news that a mountain of a man swept through the area, snatched up Mushroom Keepers, and took them to this place of no return. Worse, the giant bore mystical flowers that steal the life force of anything they touch, including mushrooms! Now Bisco and Milo will have to infiltrate Six Realms Penitentiary and pull off the prison break of a lifetime, but they won’t be doing it alone. A young “prince” who also possesses the ability to manipulate these ravenous blossoms is serving a sentence as well. But their path to freedom is barred by something much tougher than prison walls…

WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOW… Hot on the trail of their friend-turned-foe, Shishi, the new leader of the Benibishi, Bisco and Milo find themselves all the way in northern Japan. But how are they supposed to stop the blossoming berserker when Bisco is the size of a toddler?! The ravenous blossoms plaguing his body have severely diminished his strength (and size), and the pair will have to track down a mysterious mushroom in the Hokkaido region to cure his ailment. There’s just one problem with that. Hokkaido is…alive, and it’s very, very hungry.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! Kurokawa is back from the dead and once again tormenting the citizens of Imihama. But when Bisco and Milo catch a bizarre TV broadcast, they realize the evil governor’s reign of terror has only one purpose: to create the masterpiece to end all masterpieces—a film starring Bisco himself! The danger is anything but fictional, however, and with their friends and loved ones forced to take part, Bisco and Milo have no choice but to play along. Will they manage to foil Kurokawa’s diabolical ambitions, or will the audience leave in tears?

A TOTAL CATASTROPHE!All across Imihama, people have begun sprouting feline ears and tails, and adopting bizarre speech patterns! It seems the Ultrafaith Arrow Bisco and Milo fired at Kurokawa opened a gateway to an alternate dimension full of…samurai cats?! These katana-wielding kittens are being tormented by an ancient adversary who also happens to be the cause of the cat transformations back home. But as much as Bisco would love to put an arrow between their eyes, it turns out it’s pretty hard to draw a bowstring with cat paws… Can the Mushroom Keepers defeat this feline foe before their nine lives run out?!

Their Legacy, Sweet and BitterA torrential terror makes a splash on the scene, and his name is President Mare! This nigh-invulnerable adversary has been traveling across the country, abducting specimen after specimen onto a giant UFO known as the ark. His goal is simple: make the earth great again. But as Bisco and Milo rack their brains for a plan, divine intervention becomes immaculate conception, and a miracle baby is born from Milo’s mouth?! This ultrapowerful bundle of joy, Sugar Akaboshi, is living proof that big things come in small packages, and in order to coparent a living god, Milo and Bisco are going to need some help…

Sabikui Bisco is a compelling, post-apocalyptic light novel series with excellent world building complemented by amazing illustrations.