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The end of everyone was just the beginning… Minetaro Mochizuki’s classic 90s head-trip disaster manga is now in print!EXPERIENCE THE MIND-BENDING MASTERPIECE LIKE NEVER BEFOREThe end of everyone was only the beginning…Teru and his high school class are returning from a field trip when a catastrophic something derails their train, burying them in a tunnel and killing nearly everyone aboard. Among the hellish heap of mangled bodies Teru discovers two survivors, but their nightmare has only just begun. Trapped in unending shadow with sudden, violent earthquakes shaking their sanity, the three must find a way to escape to the outside world and make it back home—if home still exists…An award-winning, terrifying tour de force by Minetaro Mochizuki, the manga giant whose seminal story Hauntress first introduced the horrors of stalking to the Japanese public and who penned the manga adaptation for Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, this gripping spinechiller digs deep into the darkness lurking just beneath the surface of society and the bloody cost of survival amidst apocalyptic ruin.

The end of everyone was just the beginning… Minetaro Mochizuki’s classic 90s head-trip disaster manga is now in print!AGAINST ALL ODDS THEY ESCAPE THE ABYSS, ONLY TO FIND EVEN GREATER DARKNESS…Teru and Ako finally escape the tunnel, but the mystery of whatever caused their horrible train crash only deepens when they find nothing but ruins, abandoned buildings, and unending gloom above ground. Soon, however, they see suspiciously human-like shadows slinking about and chase after them in a last-ditch effort to find someone—anyone—else alive.But even friendly faces conceal their own darkness, and sometimes the people we implicitly trust can turn out to be the most dangerous of all.ABOUT THE AUTHORAcclaimed author Minetaro Mochizuki first broke into the world of manga with his short story Tadatada Honobono Heart (A Simply Lovely Heart), which in 1984 won the Chiba Tetsuya Award for newcomers, a distinguished prize named for the preeminent author of Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow. Two of Mochizuki’s works, Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna (Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl) and Dragon Head have been adapted into live-action films, and his series Ochanoma (The Living Room) was adapted into a live-action drama.Dragon Head earned him the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize—one of the manga industry’s most coveted awards established in honor of the tremendously influential author of Astro Boy and Buddha—as well as the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

A seminal work of horror from 1993, this classic from the author of Dragon Head is finally appearing in English for the first time. Incorporating elements of psychological horror and urban legend, and credited with introducing the idea of stalking to Japan, Mochizuki's early masterpiece remains just as terrifying as it was when it first appeared over 30 years ago.Hiroshi Mori is an ordinary college student leading an unremarkable life, until one day the doorbell rings…This 1993 horror classic from Minetaro Mochizuki (Dragon Head) plays on urban legends to exploit our fear of the seemingly mundane world around us, and is credited with introducing the concept of stalking to Japan. Finally appearing in English for the first time, Hauntress remains just as terrifying as it was when it first showed up on our doorstep over 30 years ago.

A quirky, poetic manga about a young, gruff carpenter’s attempt to keep his family business afloat, all amidst a wacky, found-family drama and romance. A touching series in just four volumes.After a fire burns down his family business and claims the lives of his parents, the young heir and master carpenter Shigetsugu vows to rebuild the failing venture with his late father’s words in mind: “No matter how much the times change, what’s important is for our kind to have compassion and dedication.”And then Ritsu, a housemaid with no relatives to rely on, comes rolling into his life with a group of children from a welfare facility who have nowhere to go, thus begins the dramatic last-ditch way-of-life story of a shaggily bearded carpenter!This bold and ambitious reinterpretation of Shūgorō Yamamoto’s classic historical novel Chiisakobee is brought to life with the full flourish of Minetaro Mochizuki’s bohemian brush!

From award-winning author who manga-adapted Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs comes a quirky poetic literary drama. Meet Forrest Gump, if he were a bearded carpenter! Follow a clumsily gruff carpenter’s attempt to keep his family business afloat amidst a romance with a childhood friendAfter a fire burns down his family business and claims the lives of his parents, the young heir and master carpenter Shigetsugu vows to rebuild the failing venture with his late father’s words in mind: “No matter how things change, there are two things people value the most . . . compassion and stubborn pride.”And then Ritsu, a housemaid with no relatives to rely on, comes rolling into his life with a group of children from a welfare facility who have nowhere to go, thus begins the dramatic last-ditch way-of-life story of a shaggily bearded carpenter! This bold and ambitious reinterpretation of Shugoro Yamamoto’s classic historical novel Chiisakobee is brought to life with the full flourish of Minetaro Mochizuki’s bohemian brush!

From award-winning author Minetaro Mochizuki, for fans of Wes Anderson, comes a poetic literary mangaAfter a fire burns down his family business and claims the lives of his parents, the young heir and master carpenter Shigetsugu vows to rebuild the failing venture with his late father’s words in mind: “No matter how much the times change, what’s important is for our kind to have compassion and dedication.”And then Ritsu, a housemaid with no relatives to rely on, comes rolling into his life with a group of children from a welfare facility who have nowhere to go. Thus begins the dramatic last-ditch way-of-life story of a shaggily bearded carpenter!This bold and ambitious reinterpretation of Shūgorō Yamamoto’s classic historical novel Chiisakobee is brought to life with the full flourish of Minetaro Mochizuki’s bohemian brush!

From award-winning author Minetaro Mochizuki, for fans of Wes Anderson, comes a poetic literary mangaAfter a fire burns down his family business and claims the lives of his parents, the young heir and master carpenter Shigetsugu vows to rebuild the failing venture with his late father’s words in mind: “No matter how much the times change, what’s important is for our kind to have compassion and dedication.”And then Ritsu, a housemaid with no relatives to rely on, comes rolling into his life with a group of children from a welfare facility who have nowhere to go. Thus begins the dramatic last-ditch way-of-life story of a shaggily bearded carpenter!This bold and ambitious reinterpretation of Shūgorō Yamamoto’s classic historical novel Chiisakobee is brought to life with the full flourish of Minetaro Mochizuki’s bohemian brush!