Shuzo Oshimi
Japanese manga artist known for psychologically intense, coming-of-age and horror-tinged works such as The Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana), Inside Mari, Happiness, and Blood on the Tracks (Chi no Wadachi).
Books
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1. Blood On The Tracks, Vol. 1
A quiet, observant teenage boy begins to notice the disturbing intensity of his mother's affection as he navigates first crushes and the small freedoms of adolescence; what starts as smothering doting turns into controlling, isolating behavior that warps his social life and sense of self, slowly revealing a tense, claustrophobic power dynamic and the threat of something far darker beneath the surface—an intimate psychological horror about codependency, manipulation, and the dangerous blur between love and possession.
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2. The Flowers Of Evil Complete, Vol. 1
An introspective, unsettling coming-of-age story centered on a timid, poetry-obsessed middle-schooler whose furtive theft of a classmate’s gym uniform is exposed by a defiant peer; instead of reporting him, she blackmails him into a collusive relationship that drags both into manipulative games, erotic confusion, and moral transgression. As their uneasy pact deepens, he confronts repressed desires, shame, and the thin line between attraction and cruelty, forcing him to question his identity and the social masks around him.
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