Synopsis: Susumu Namekoshi, who lives in a car, moved to the west exit of Shinjuku Station two weeks ago. He has a penchant for lying, so his past and identity are unknown, and he is a man full of mysteries. One day, an incredible twenty-two year old medical student named Ito appears in front of him and whispers in his ear, "Would you be interested in undergoing a human experiment for 700,000 yen? And the name of that experiment was: skull drilling surgery! Just a small hole in the skull and .....!? What kind of things are actually happening? ,
One sentence review: the hero with the open skull peers into hell. But while you're gazing into hell, hell is gazing into you, and at the end, the protagonist is consumed by what he sees.
2. "Deep Sea Fish Man"
Synopsis: A small supermarket security guard over thirty feels that he has lived decades of his life in vain, so he prays to God to give him a friend.
A comment: the author once again portrayed the dark side of humanity once again in the spread of positive energy, the protagonist of the life of a difficult and dangerous, but ultimately there is a relatively happy ending, which is like in the cold night found a big bean star fire, although in the distance, but let a person doubly cozy.
3. "The Horse Light Company"
Synopsis: People who come to the Horse Light Company (hereinafter referred to as "guests") can watch a DVD of their "entire" life, and a person will lead them into a small room and ask them to write down their names and birthdates. Afterwards, the guest will be given a DVD with the same number of years as his or her age, and the contents of the DVD will be recorded from his or her own point of view. The guest can play the DVD remotely as he or she wishes, or stop it at any time if he or she is not interested in it, and he or she can watch the lives of the people he or she is related to.
A comment: Reality is cruel, human nature is cruel, and these two cruelest things are fused together in this manga.
4. "Bloody Girl"
Synopsis: Every night, under the colorful neon tubes, behind the lights, wine and liquor, derive a lot of human nature's ugliness. These ugliness, in the darkness constantly expanding, twisting, deforming ...... So, we need a hero, a heroine, to release it! With the blood of the sky to release! And, of course, she was covered in blood!
One comment: what do you think justice is? Punishing evil and promoting good? Oh, if that's all it is, then it's too easy to think about. This manga doesn't tell you what justice is, but it can tell you what the opposite of justice is.
5. "Human Failure"
Synopsis: This manga is adapted from the novel of the same name. It describes the protagonist from adolescence to middle age, in order to escape the reality and keep sinking, experiencing self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, paralyzing himself with drugs, and finally step by step towards the tragedy of self-destruction, and in the process of self-denial, expressing his deepest bitterness, as well as longing for love ......
One sentence review : This manga is so dark that the original author of the novel even committed suicide after finishing the book, unable to withstand the bleakness of the content, which is about tragedy and even more destruction.