Nejishiki
ねじ式; 外のふくらみ; Chico; Marsh; Mushroom Hunting; Oba's Electroplate Factory; Screw-Style; The Outside Inflation; Wind-Up Type
Summary
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
• 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.
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