Yano Tendai

The year is 1971 and the once popular manga artist Kurumizawa is in a major slump. The pressure builds as each new submission is rejected. But one day, he meets a young, promising artist named Hata. When he sees Hata's wonderful work, Kurumizawa hatches a dark plan...

Tanaka, a father of three and a gymnastics school instructor, suddenly finds himself on the brink of unemployment. Amidst this turmoil, a familiar figure appears before him to save the day…and it’s the popular children’s show host, “Gymnastics Buddy,” Asato?! What’s more, he can exterminate the mysterious “bugs” that only Tanaka has been able to see since childhood?! Hold your breath as Tanaka takes a daring vault into an unforeseen twist of fate!

Is a person still a person even if they've been replaced? A whitesmith in a certain small village has been making artificial metal bodies for the village's soldiers, and allowing them to keep on living... The whitesmith has also been replacing the body parts of a young female soldier with artificial ones. But each time the whitesmith replaces a body part, it feels as though something is lost, and she becomes less and less human. Can the young woman and the whitesmith manage to hold on to their humanity, and continue living in this cruel world that's so repulsive that it's beautiful? Source: Shueisha