Gin's manga / #Twisted(131)

Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru portrays the tale of two step-brothers— Jeremy and Ian, as they strive to discover their separate paths towards redemption. Jeremy, a sensitive but outgoing 17 year old, is delighted to hear the news of his neurotic and excitable mother's remarriage to a wealthy British man. However, much to his horror, his sweet-talking new step-father Greg, soon begins to exhibit a disturbing trait...he is a sadistic pedophile and loses no time in making Jeremy his target. Months of horrific, systematic abuse drives Jeremy to desperation; and he sabotages his step-father's car with the hope of eliminating him. The resulting accident, however, kills his mother along with Greg. Jeremy's shocked and guilt-stricken behaviour arouses the suspicions of Greg's free-spirited son, Ian. He unearths enough evidence to tie his step-brother to the crime; but in doing so, also discovers the details of Greg's sexual abuse of Jeremy. Caught in a moral dilemma between punishing the criminal and atoning for his father's sins, Ian soon finds himself haunted by lust for Jeremy. Is it lust...or love? He wonders whether he shares his father's proclivities, but finds himself helpless to resist being drawn into a passionate and painful relationship with his step-brother.

When he was a child, Luca was imprisoned for murder after saving Christ, his lover, from an abusive father. Luca, now out on parole, is hoping to live with Christ. Unfortunately, he finds out Christ is living with Jimmie, a brat, who he claims is his relative. Luca is being treated like an outsider. This situation is brought about by each individual's personality. Thus, catastrophe ensues!

One day, up-and-coming young photographer Franz Schumann makes a fateful encounter. A beautiful young man with jet-black hair, eyes that show traces of a fresh grief, white skin like porcelain that, though it’s decorated with numerous bruises, is still sublime: Jay. He won’t tell the whole story of where he’s from, and Franz, wanting to keep the mysterious Jay as his exclusive model, as time passes, begins to fall in love with him...

A man returns from a trip after hearing news about his former love's passing.

Azuma Kaya's debut story which constitutes second half of the 'MobyamaAji to MobutaniCrou no Kareinaru Hichijo Eno Chousen' compiled volume. A newly appointed teacher Morizaki keeps visiting his truant student Mirai in hopes of getting him to return to school.

"We can't live without each other. You're my other half." "I've killed a woman." The domineering voice on the phone was that of a high school classmate, Mitsuo Ichikawa. Buried memories from the past resurface in the heart of a man with the same name, Mitsuo Ichikawa. It drags him right back into the passions of the past. They reunite as accomplices, yet their relationship as master and servant slowly changes into something new...

The story happens in a circus in Paris in the 1970's. (...) Much is made of the romance of the circus atmosphere, of flying through the air on a trapeze, etc etc. Think cirque here, not circus. We're doing Old World riffs on the romance and tawdriness of the ring. There are no elephants in tutus walking on their hind legs; it's slit-eyed jugglers and daring death-loving trapeze artists and sad Pierrot clowns, even if the Pierrot clown - our hero, Torinosu, 'Bird's Nest' - has a false red nose. The tawdriness comes from the circus master pimping out his performers to anyone willing to pay. (...) And there's tanbi decadence - ghosts who wander into the action looking like teenaged girls even if they're the hero's brother, and abandoned neurotic women with a thing for inflicting pain, and buracon and possible murder and unspoken pining and a hero who looks about to perish at any moment from terminal angst.

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