Fruits

フルーツ

• by Kiba Kouichi
• ran in Ikki

Six short stories about six extraordinary women, packed with sex and violence, and the artist's distinctive thick-lined, florid art.

A hitwoman who snares the hearts of her minders.

A ghost whose face drives men mad.

A 13-year-old child prostitute who inherites a client's entire fortune.

A vampiric wine collector.

A young girl with a heart transplant scar on her chest, and the boy obsessed with photographing it.

And a singer who has lost her voice, trying to recover it by feeding fruit to a lion.

It may have been three years since he abandoned Mariogun, but this volume proves Kiba Kouichi is as crazy as ever. I just wish he was faster.