Gin's manga / #dark(119)

Brandon saved Andy's life when they were children, but this heroic act caused him to get epilepsy. After Brandon's family received all the compensation fees they could get out of the tragic accident, his mother and sister moved away, leaving Brandon with his father, who eloped with a co-worker soon afterward. 10 years later, Brandon has found himself stuck with his only friend, Andy, who has been taking care of him, letting him indulge in his drinking problem and satisfying his sexual needs.

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...

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...

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.

Takezou, wearing rose perfume belonging to his brother's wife, sneaks into Shinobu's bedroom. Invisible to Shinobu, he caresses his brother's body. The story of Shinobu and his stepbrother Takezou's adulthood. Volume 1 includes: - Lure of Aroma (?????) ch2: The story of Shinobu and his stepbrother Takezou's childhood. - Impurity (??): extra story, an episode of Shinobu's and his stepbrother Takezou's school years. Volume 2 includes: - Anten (??): extra story involving Shinobu's son, Kaname.