Screw-Style

Collection of short stories including:

• Nejishiki
A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins…
Tsuge’s 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge’s “dream stories”.

• Numa (Marsh)
A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh.

• Chico
A couple takes care of a java sparrow.

• Hatsutake Gari (Mushroom Hunting)
Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning…

• Sanshouuo (Salamander)

• Touge no Inu (The Dog of the Mountain Pass)

• Uwasa no Bushi

• Ondoru Koya (Ondoru House)

• Gensenkan Shujin (Master of the Gensenkan Inn)

• Chouhachi no Yado

• Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho (Oba’s Electroplate Factory)

• Yoshiboo no Hanzai

• Shounen

• Aru Mumei Sakka

It DOES NOT contain this story:
• Soto no Fukurami (The Outside Inflation)
The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man’s house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story.