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Even though J no Subete is 3 volumes long, each volume is a dynamic story in itself covering a particular stage of J's life. His life is a dark story and it's a very psychological manga. Book 1 is about all of J's trials and tribulations throughout childhood, during highschool as he tries to find his place in the world and when he meets the somber Honor student Paul... Timeline: 01 Barairo no Hoo no Koro v01 ch01-05 02 J no Subete v01 ch01-05 03 2 Shuukan no Adventure v01 ch05-06 04 J no Subete v02-03 05 Barairo no Hoo no Koro v01 Extra

Full color and black & white art collection. Included extra story.

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on peoples bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi s father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...

Horror manga author Mr. J moves into his new house with his fiance A-ko. Much to his chagrin, she brings two guests with her.

This volume includes ten of Junji Ito’s short stories, as selected exclusively from the Shigakukan publisher catalog and presented and accompanied with a gallery of six color illustrations.

A love story about Go Yo, a deaf, who gets excited by the sign language of Soo Hwa, and Soo Hwa who gets excited by the sound made by Go Yo.

Arisue Sei lived as happily as any normal kid would, just him and his mother -- a particularly private woman -- on an outlying island of Okinawa. There were also his friends Toichi and Moichi. The only unusual things about Sei were his sharp instincts and high intelligence. But everything changed when his mother was killed and he was kidnapped by the people of Neo Genesis. Now, six years after the kidnapping, Arisue Sei has returned to Japan with the title of "Doctor" at only the age of 18, and he's not the Sei that his friends remember. There are bodyguards with him who protect him from others who wish to possess his superb intellect. He says he's come back to assist with the research at Rakuhoku University, where Moichi now works, but here is where the door to Sei's secrets just begins to open... In 2002 Yasha series received the 47th annual Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo.

Chapter 5 -- His Left Eye, a story detailing an encounter between Gerry and Scott from Barairo no Hoo no Koro, as adults.