Kazuo Umezu

Short stories collection full of darkness, the characters' daily lives are turned upside down overnight, while anxiety makes them gradually sinking into madness. For example the story of a woman that, after fleeing her violent husband, suddenly believe she is an insect; another story narrates of a devoted wife living in terror after being caught cheating on her husband; another one is centered on a man wrongly accused of the murder of his wife and daughter, who has a strange experience on the eve of his execution; or the journey of a young girl whose destiny changes when she meets two men on a beach... Mushi-tachi no Ie: A woman who enters a catatonic state after her husband attacks her thinking that she cheated on him. While in the coma she believes she gained the ability to shapeshift into different insects… a terrifying story about unstable marriages!

The woman he fell in love with had come to a very sad end. In order to know the meaning of the word "Iara" that the woman shouted just before her death, the man continues to live for a long time...

This is an ideological continuation to the manga "My Name Is Shingo". It consists of 101 paintings, each with a short description that forms another story. This is Umezu's first new work in 27 years since the completion of "Fourteen", and 36 years since the completion of "Shingo".

Hito is a boy who doesn't play much with his friends and likes being alone. One day, he finds a piece of wood about the size of his head at a garbage dump and uses it to create his own "robot." With teeth that are nailed down and hair and eyes with visible stitches, the doll looks creepy to the casual observer, and he names it "Mokume." Soon, he begins to think, "I wish it could really move," and tries to make a wish come true by using telekinesis on the energy of the universe...A masterpiece collection of short stories depicting the transience and fear of childhood, including the title story "Wish" and seven other stories! At the end of the volume, editor Kentaro Takekuma writes, "My UMEZZ Experience."

This is the bunko version where all 26 vols have been compressed into 13 vols. A SF/horror manga that takes place in 2200. At a chicken manufacturing company, a certain chicken transforms into a supermutant named Chicken George. And so, a nightmarish journey through a twisted version of the future unfolds.

Makoto-chan, serialized in "Shonen Sunday" again in 1988 as a sequel to the legendary gag that took the world by storm in the mid-'70s, is back in the Heisei era! St. Prodigy Kindergarten Plum Group: Makoto Sawada's many transcendent gags are sure to shock you!! Gwashi!!

The 6 books contains 5 horror stories related to a primary school kid named Sou. Sou has an ability to foresee supernatural events in his dream and even make changes that would eventually happen in the reality. The 5 stories are the Eroded Scissors, the Disappeared Rubber/Erased an Eraser, the Tongue of the Spider Queen, the Black Picture-book and Shadow Dead. All of the scary stories are linked by his unique experience. Note: Volume count based on the bunkoban.

Two elementary school pupils, a girl named Marine and a boy named Satoru, fall in love and are blessed with a rather unorthodox child which happens to be a robot. This robot is called Shingo and the story recounts how its mind develops and how it travels the world in pursuit of its ‘parents’ whom it has never had a chance to meet. Note: Volume count based on the bunkoban.

This series has various different versions. The version used by Dark Horse is outdated, the current Kadokawa Horror Bunko is more complete and higher quality. The spine-chilling influence of Japanese horror cinema has taken hold in Western audiences with hit films like The Ring that are based on Japanese films adapted from classic manga stories. And the master of horror manga is Umezu Kazuo-known as the "Stephen King of Japan," with several of his stories being adapted to film-and Dark Horse Manga is proud to bring his Scary Book horror anthology to Western readers for the first time. This first volume, Reflections, presents two feature-length tales of terror. Volumes (Kadokawa Horror Bunko) 1: 蛇 (Snakes) 2: 異形 (Oddities) 3: 狂乱 (Madness) 4: 呪縛 (Spells) 5: 執念 (Obsessions) 6: 怪物 (Creatures) 7: 闇 (Darkness) 8: 異形２(Oddities 2) 9: 影 (Shadows) 10: 顔 (Faces) 11: 猫 (Cats)

The series follows the odd life of kindergartener Makoto Sawada and his family. Makoto gets into all sorts of toilet and adult humor. He sometimes dresses in his mother's and sister's clothing, and often has a long strand of mucus dangling from his nose.

Izumi Wakakusa is a renowned actress obsessed with beauty. When an hideous mark shows up on her face she suddenly disappears and gives birth to a little girl: Sakura. Sakura is always pampered and overprotected by her mother, until the day that she discovers why she was born. NOTE: The Scanlation comes from the 4 volume Bunko version.

Promotional manga for The Exorcist. Pretty much just an abdridged version of the movie.

A horrifically hilarious gag series from Kazuo Umezz.

Out of nowhere, a Japanese elementary school is transported out of the world they know, and into a nightmarish wasteland. Have they gone to another planet, or is this toxic world actually a vision of Earth's future? Soon, the students and teachers must struggle to survive in impossible conditions, besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness. Part Lord of the Flies, part post-apocalyptic science fiction, The Drifting Classroom (1972-1974) is a classic can't-put-down manga series. It was adapted into a Japanese live-action movie (1987).Won the 20th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1975

Following the life of the student newspaper reporter Emiko, these are scary stories of experiences from Miyako High School : Ubawareta Shinzou (Stolen Heart) – The school's mystery club sees the dangerous consequences of an innocent promise concerning heart donation after death between two friends. Kyuuketsu Men (Bloodsucking Mask) – A girl who wears a demon mask from a shrine for a bad-luck-banishing drama club party ends up unable to remove it. Dokuga (Poison Moth) – The science club leader creates a serum to preserve dead bodies perfectly, but it may have other unpredicted side effects. Henshitsu – A couple take shelter from a storm in a strange house with a secret that might prove to be deadly. – These stories and many more are found in the two volumes of Kyoufu. \[tethysdust]

"Phantom manga" is a term used to describe under-republished or otherwise uncompiled works, and it's a creepy enough term that fits horror manga! This volume contains 14 horror tales from famous creators, hardly seen in a broader sense. 1- New Liaozhai Zhiyi • Spider Woman by Osamu Tezuka (Shin Ryousaishii • Jorou-Gumo) 2- Creepy Collection by Fujiko Fujio A (Bukimi Collection) 3- Scaleless Fish by Hideshi Hino (Uroko no Nai Sakana) 4- Evil Spirit by Masako Watanabe (Akurei) 5- Statue of Anxiety by Daijiro Morohoshi (Fuan no Ritsuzo) 6- Sky Stone… by Nanae Sasaya (Utsu ho Ishi no...) 7- The Inner Mask by Kazuo Umezz (Uchinaru Kamen) 8- Skull Breast by Kazuichi Hanawa (Dokuro Jichi) 9- Urashima by Tatsuhiko Yamagami (Urashima) 10- Red Tongue by Atsuko Narumo (Akai Shita) 11- The Witch Misa Kuroi • Song of the Ghosts by Koga Shinichi (Majo Kuroi Misa • Shiryo no Uta) 12- Cursed Ace of Spades by Yasuko Aoike (Noroi no Spade Ace) 13 - In the Crowd by Shigeru Mizuki (Gunshū no Naka ni) 14- About each writer. A modest profile Compilation designed by Takayoshi Nakasone

A series of dark, atmospheric stories that explore the twisted condition of the human soul, interconnected only by the enigmatic Orochi: a perpetually young-looking woman with mysterious abilities who takes it upon herself to observe the lives of different individuals who catch her fancy, from afar. Now available in English from Viz Media.

Collection of short comedic manga by some notable names in the industry. Published in the August and September 1968 issues of Osamu Tezuka's COM magazine

Cat-Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child who mostly resembles a human, and therefore cannot live in the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by both demons and humans. But wherever he goes, awful events occur. Humans interact with demons, but for the most part the humans that appear to act more evil than the monsters. Cat-Eyed Boy acts like Trickster, saving the innocent and helping the wicked receive the punishment that fate metes out. The stories are mostly tales of revenge and retribution for the evil acts people do. The series is broken into 11 individual stories, full of extremely grotesque and disturbing images.

This is a reprint of the book originally published in 1967. The beautiful teacher, much admired by the female students, is swapped with a mummy placed there during prayer, plunging the entire school into a frenzy of terror. This is a complete reprint of Umezu's masterpiece short horror story.

(from ebookjapan):Kazuo Umezu's "Ultraman" was serialized at the same time as the 1966 TV broadcast! The fierce battles with popular monsters such as the Baltan and Mefilas aliens are fully recorded along with the color pages from the serialization and the chapter covers!Kazuo Umezu's very famous manga adaptation of the first Ultraman series.

The Load of Kaga clan was known for hating cats and all of cats captured are executed. One day, the girls twin are born, but the one looks like a cat…

In Snake Woman, a hunter sets out into a legendary swamp and dies three days later. Today, Yoko knows little about what happened to the hunter — her grandfather — but when terror strikes her village on the anniversary of her grandfather's death, she must face the same threat that took his life years before… the terror of the Snake Woman!

This is the first reprint of the three parts of the \`\`Tanoshii 5th Grade'' series that was first published and has never been recorded before. In addition, the 4-color door and 2-color door will be reproduced in magazine size for the first time. Comes with a "reader" that explains the changes made.

This is Umezu Kazuo's first shoujo manga which he drew when he was 21, and his first work to be remembered in the shoujo horror genre. Inspired by the Yotsuya Kaidan and folk tales he heard from his parents as a child, this is the starting point for his later horror manga career. First published as a kashihon (rental book).

A fantasy romance depicting the bond of a mother and a daughter through ballet, with the Urashima Taro legend as a backdrop. An early shojo work of Kazuo Umezz not long after his debut. Originally released in kashihon (rental manga) format.

In 1956, shortly after his debut, Umezu Kazuo published this mystery novel as a new book from Osaka publisher Mishima Shobo. It was the first in a series of rental books starring the boy detective Misaki Ichiro. Even during the heyday of hard-boiled manga, the story is already overflowing with the supernatural, and the seeds of the author's later works can be seen. Misaki Ichiro appears unexpectedly in a rainy town, where he meets a strange old man known as the town's lord. The old man has taken out a photograph Ichiro had been carrying, and there is something spider-like in the photograph... \*The e-book version does not include the "Forest Brothers and Sisters" and "Bottomless Town" Readers.

This book was a collaboration between Umezu Kazuo, who was in his second year of junior high school at the time, and Mizutani Takeko, a girls' manga artist living in Kyoto, and was Umezu's debut work. Umezu drew the first and second halves, while Mizutani drew the middle. Umezu and Mizutani were members of a manga circle called the "Kaiman Club," and Umezu asked them to collaborate. The original work is the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," but the adaptations are reminiscent of Umezu, who would later become a master of horror. The detailed depictions of the backgrounds and other works are astonishing, demonstrating the extraordinary artistic ability of this precocious genius. \*The e-book version does not include the "Readers for 'Brother and Sister in the Forest' and 'Bottomless Town'."

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