Velveteen & Mandala - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 1999 - 2002

"Ohikkoshi" follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together) and try to avoid making life decisions while drunk.

• Vol: 22; Ch: 264
• 2009 - 2017

The zombie apocalypse has never been more surreal! A mentally unhinged manga artist witnesses the beginning of a zombie outbreak in Tokyo, and he's certain of only two things: he's destined to be the city's hero, and he possesses something very rare in Japan--an actual firearm! 

• One Shot
• 2009

In a war-ravaged city, the local all-girls high school mandates firearms training for every student, and encourages them to help with the war effort however they can. Hiroko Tsubaki's club raises money by selling flowers, and the girl has nothing but disdain for the ill-bred violent girls that populate her school. But that changes when the elegant student council president Tsubame asks her to join the investigations squad for a secret (and dangerous!) mission.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 1990

Panorama of Hell is a shocking, tortuous journey into the depths of one man's postnuclear Hell. Through the confessions of a fiendish Hell painter born in the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hideshi Hino tells a nightmarish story, creating a manga masterpiece of black humor, stunning vision, and unflinching imagery.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 101
• 1998 - 2001

In the depths of Shinjuku, the yakuza and other gangs rule supreme. Thus, when the manipulative Jijii and a team of gangsters take down the Anjou branch’s boss secretively, it ignites an inevitable firestorm between rival groups. At the heart of the struggle is Ichi the Killer, a brutal murderer who cries before going berserk, becoming aroused in the process; and Kakihara, a scarred, pierced psychopath whose sadomasochistic streak means long and painful deaths for his enemies. Amidst an endless bloodbath, will either man survive?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 2003

Every morning a man wakes up, gets dressed, and heads to work, returning home in the evening to go to sleep. Feeling suffocated by the mundanity and repetitiveness of life, the man takes a detour on his way to work one day. But after being swept up in a tide of piracy, cannibalism, and bizarre religious sects the man starts to wonder: was his boring old life so bad after all?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 24
• 2004

This first U.S. book on Yokoyama's work combines two of the artist's central themes: fighting and building. One set of graphic stories, Public Works, details massive structures being erected across a landscape. Plot is pushed aside in favor of sheer formal verve as we watch buildings, about which we know nothing, come into being.

• Vol: 1
• 2016

A new surrealist tale by the creator of neo manga, the critically-acclaimed Yuichi Yokoyama. His frenetic visual style contrasts with the taciturn pace of the story and dialogue as a group of friends wander the high-latitude areas of the strange icy Far North looking for someone. Readers of Yokoyama's other stories may even recognize some characters.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2011 - 2012

Chronicles the events leading up to the development and eventual downfall of the Hikari Club.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 22
• 1999

Three ‘believers’ – two men and a woman – live on a deserted island as part of a special program. Their goal is to co-habitate and learn how to purify themselves from the outside, evil world under the teachings of Master. From day to day they remind themselves of his words and purge their vile thoughts, but soon two of them begin to discover a better, yet ‘wrong’, way to pass the time. However, Master’s teachings are absolute, and their actions won’t go unnoticed...