Lychee Light Club - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 2009 - 2010

The twisted and deeply disturbing tale of a sociopathic serial killer...

• Vol: 8; Ch: 87
• 2000 - 2002

Nineteen-year-old ronin Hideki Motosuwa desires two things more than anything else: a girlfriend, and an expensive humanoid computer (known as a 'persocom'). But with his dead-end job and no financial aid from his parents, owning a persocom seems impossible... until he finds a blond-haired female persocom tied up amongst a pile of trash! After getting her home and figuring out how to activate her, even the computer-illiterate Hideki realizes there is something unusual when it appears she can only say one word - Chii. Is she just broken, or is there more to this persocom than her behavior lets on?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 61
• 2006 - 2012

Franken Fran, creation of the absent Professor Madaraki, has a true gift when it comes to the scalpel: she can give you the perfect body, bring the dead to life or stitch people together so that they will never again be apart. Join Fran and her boy-headed cat as they learn about the human soul while carving up the human flesh. But ethics aside, can something beautiful come out of such ugly work, or is it doomed to remain ugly until the end? On the other hand, does it matter?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2002 - 2003

The story takes place in a circus in Paris in the 1970's. Much is made of the romance of the circus atmosphere, of flying through the air on a trapeze etc. We're talking about Old World riffs on the romance and tawdriness of the ring. There are no elephants in tutus walking on their hind legs in this circus; but there are slit-eyed jugglers, daring death-loving trapeze artists and sad Pierrot clowns; though the Pierrot clown - our hero, Torinosu (a.k.a 'Bird's Nest') does have a false red nose. The tawdriness comes from the circus master pimping out his performers to anyone willing to pay. Decadence is strife throughout the tale - ghosts who wander into the action looking like teenage girls even though they're actually the hero's brother; abandoned neurotic women with a thing for inflicting pain; buracon and possible murder, not to mention mountains of unspoken pining and a hero who looks about to perish at any moment from terminal angst.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 1993 - 2000

Includes the following chapters:

• 1. Ratai no Kigen
• 2. Tenshi no Fellatio
• 3. YumeKana
• 4. Umi kara Kita Kikai 
• 5. Tsuki no Sho
• 6. Egao de Sayounara
• 7. Emi-chan

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 1986

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2009

The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago and a number of short stories.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 2010 - 2012

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 1984

Midori is a young girl who sells flowers until her mother dies, leaving her an orphan. She’s conned by a freak show manager into joining his troupe, but once there she sees a shocking variety of deformed people and is occasionally the victim of their depravity. Midori’s situation changes, however, when a mysterious dwarf with a unique magical act joins the freak show. This dwarf is able to put himself through a bottleneck into a glass jar – and that is not the extent of his powers. Midori falls in love with the dwarf, but his ambitions and jealousy will have further unpleasant consequences...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 13
• 2000

The rub this time is mazes and visual illusions and jokes.