In the Anywhere But Here series:
V.1 - Yama e Iku
• Yama e Iku (Going to the Mountains)
It's about a sensitive writer with an overactive imagination and intolerance for the banalities of everyday life.
• Yanagi Ki (The Willow Tree)
A woman stands day to day under a growing willow tree and watches the people who pass by...
V.2 - Sphinx
V.3 - Haru no Ogawa
Fantagraphics
Related works
A Drunken Dream is a collection of literary short stories by Hagio falling into multiple genres, created between 1971-2007. The stories were selected by translator Matt Thorn to be an introduction to Hagio for English speakers. This time travels through several of Hagio's most revolutionary and poignant tales that span over the years of her lush career.
• Bianca (1970, 16…
From Fantagraphics:
The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the living, whiling away the centuries in a village of roses where time and geography have no meaning. Circumstances lead to a brother and sister, Edgar and Marybelle, being initiated into the clan too young, and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood, until a wooden…
A DECADE-SPANNING JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS.
Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body of Arié Kimura's mother is found by this tunnel's entrance, next to apparently human traces, the legend seems to be confirmed. Is the end of the world coming? In order to…
The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th century. One winter day, fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after mailing a single, brief letter to another boy at the school:
To Juli, one last time.
This is my love.
This is the sound of my heart.
Surely you must understand.
Thus begins…
Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end?
Included works
Half-Blood
The Laguini
Slow Down
Drunken Dream
Herbal Beauty
The False King.
The Greenhouse.
Izzan the Leftovers
A…