Masaki Mori

As the creator of the famous detective Akechi Kogoro, Edogawa Ranpo is one of Japan's leading writers of mystery, detective, horror, and popular entertainment novels, and his name has been awarded the Edogawa Ranpo Award, the highest award for mystery novels. (1884-1965). In the year 50 years after his death, we have reprinted and re-edited the supreme masterpieces created by various talented famous manga artists of the mature Showa period into graphic works, using the dazzling world of monsters and strangeness of the Taisho and early Showa periods as a motif, will be published in B6 size (regular comics with cover), which is easy to read and affordable.

One snowy day, the mad child visits his father, a death row inmate, in prison and tells him that his mother committed suicide by throwing herself that morning. On the night of the wake, in addition to his uncles who are looking for an inheritance (of hundreds of millions of yen that he will inherit one day), a strange man named Kagura Shishi comes to visit. He says he owes a huge debt to the crazy child's parents and has come to repay it, telling them to use his life as they wish. Meanwhile, his uncle (commonly known as Centipede), who is aiming for his inheritance, sends madam Izumi of the bar to seduce the mad child, but the mad child, who has a relationship with Izumi, tries to get rid of Centipede's debt in order to cancel her debt. Enter the mansion. At first, the mad child is being defeated one-sidedly by Centipede's bodyguard viper, but when the situation turns around and he is about to kill his opponent, Kagura Shishi rushes in and intercedes, and the mad child's only thought is to smash his opponent. He declares that he failed to see it. Confused by Kagura Shishi's sudden change, the mad child gets blood rushing to his head and stabs him with a knife (in reality, Kagura Shishi doesn't dodge the knife and takes the knife on purpose), and is confused as to what he should do next, but Kagura... Following Shishi's advice, he decides to subject himself to \`\`yamishibari,'' a torture in which he is locked in a pitch-dark room for days on end. However, after "Yami Shibari" ended, the world around the crazy child changed completely...

Sayo, a girl who takes care of Jiro, a boy who has just turned his back. Their encounter caused ripples in the mountain class. The mountain pass road that Jiro follows stretches out in white. Today and tomorrow will be Jiro's path!

At the clock tower of a prefectural Maruyama High School in a certain region, there were about 50 people initially trapped in a conflict with the school authorities, but the day before they were forcibly removed by riot police, Tatsuhiko Yabuki, Ryoko Misaki, Shiro Hasumi, and Yukio Hiiragi were arrested. The number was reduced to four. After finishing his last meal of instant ramen for dinner, Tatsuhiko Yabuki started talking in front of everyone. "It's not a big deal that the number of (sequestrians) has decreased.'' "What I'm concerned about is why it's "the last four'' and not \`\`the last one.'''' "Why?'' "Who are we?" "I want to know why the four of us remained." Then, Tatsuhiko, Ryoko, Shiro, and Yukio each begin to talk about their past. The four of them each had different horrific pasts on their backs, and they remained in the clock tower carrying that pain...