Tetsuya Tsutsui

In a village affected by rural depopulation, a grower named Keita creates a new fig species that gets recommended by a web celebrity. The local economy starts to pick up thanks to media exposure, which gives Keita hope for the local school to reopen, in order to convince his wife to come back with their daughter. Yet the daily life in this peaceful village is disturbed by the arrival of a stranger, Suzuki Mutsuo, seemingly seeking for employment. Keita doesn't trust the sly man, and his doubts are confirmed when his best friend informs him that he has recognized the stranger: sentenced several years ago for a case of harassment and murder, he is a criminal fresh out of prison! Live-action dorama adaptation (2022): MyDramaList | IMDB | Letterboxd

The year is 2019, and the Japanese government has recently increased their involvement in censorship of the mass media. The upcoming Tokyo Olympics accelerates their efforts. Depictions deemed obscene by the Japanese government become increasingly difficult to publish, even in manga. Under these circumstances, manga author Hibino Mikio just got an opportunity to publish his horror manga: "Dark Walker." His manga centers around a disease that turns normal people into cannibals during the night. Watch as Mikio finds himself in a manga industry shaken by a war on the freedom of expression. \[DrCoke]

The anti-cybercrime section of Tokyo is on the edge. A man wearing a newspaper mask posts videos online predicting the worst crimes: rapes, assaults, fires… The twist? The day after, his prophecies have been completed on the front of the TV news. Who is he? How does he proceed? What are his motivations, his ambitions? It's the start of a race against time which leads the inspectors to an empty seat in a cybercafe in the outskirts of Tokyo… But while the investigation is blocked, the popular support grows around this mysterious figure. Dropouts, employees tyrannized by their hierarchy, web users accustomed to chat and forums discussions: more and more are finding themselves included in his fight! Wikipedia

A man becomes disturbingly fixated on the beauty of the woman he is with, especially her ears. What begins as admiration quickly turns into obsession as he decides he wants that beauty for himself. A short horror story about obsession, beauty, and possession!

An online game is causing players to commit suicide. One hacker rises to solve the mystery.

Nakanishi, delinquent just out of reform school, tries in vain to get free of his past. His new job does not satisfy him and he has to suffer the provocations of his boss. One day, an acquaintance from the net introduces him to a game to help him relieve him of his stress: Duds Hunt. One rule: no holds barred… Also contains Awakened Dreams, a colored short story.

A killer parasite is on the verge of threatening 180 million people… and a race against the clock has begun! What do two Japanese detectives, a naked man on a city street, and a roundworm from Botswana all have in common? In this first volume of Manhole, Ken Mizoguchi and Nao Inoue are a pair of investigators asking themselves this very question as they string together clues to solve a string of bloody and mysterious murders. But as the pieces come together, they begin to uncover the threat of a deadly biological agent which poses a threat of epidemic proportions. An unlikely lead sets them off on the hunt for a mysterious photographer, but as they chase down shadows, the infection keeps spreading. This thrilling detective story with a biological horror hook will keep readers on the edge of their seat. Rising star manga artist Tetsuya Tetsui’s Manhole is a tightly paced fight to prevent a pandemic as perplexing as it is deadly. Source: Abrams ComicArts, Vol. 1

Before becoming known for his psychological thrillers, Tetsuya Tsutsui created Fool’s Paradise, an early web 18-page manga already filled with the unease that would define his later work. The story follows Kenji, a young man who finds himself face to face with the girl of his dreams, in a world where affection seems effortless and desire has no consequences. But this paradise is built on something fragile, and the fantasy soon begins to reveal its darker logic.

The terrorist group "Shinbunshi" was punishing bad guys and distributing their actions on the Internet. Hanaoka Takeru, a high school student, is shocked by them and starts working as a copycat with his childhood friend, Endo Sota, and his classmate, Nishizawa Kyoko. The three begin collecting money from people in the name of "righteous loss" in exchange for punishing the bad guys and distributing the whole story on the Internet. The copycats become online heroes, and their activities continue even after the death of the real Shinbunshi. Eventually, the police begin to investigate them as well.