To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Louvre's comic collection, a series of international exhibitions has been scheduled. The Taipei MoNTUE Museum, followed by the Tainan Cultural Center, inaugurated the Taiwanese part of this major retrospective by exhibiting more than two hundred original plates, preparatory drawings and video installations. Then, between August 2016 and September 2017, the exhibition follows a traveling tour through Japan, starting with the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Tokyo. At each stage of the exhibition, Taiwanese and then Japanese artists were invited to participate in this project. It is their work that we reproduce here. Their personal looks, their original cultures and their singular expressions send back new images of the Louvre,

Kim Dohyun, 28, is stuck in an dead-end job and with almost no money to his name. When he suddenly gets kidnapped during the day, it's only the beginning of his confinement by a scar-faced man who seems to have some kind of perplexing motive for keeping him captive.

"Ryouichi did anything I told him to."

Cousins and childhood friends, Issei and Ryouichi. Between bossy heir of a company president Issei and gloomy, always obedient Ryouichi arose a warped master-slave relationship. Letting the adored Issei conquer him, young Ryouichi gave his body over to pleasure. However, a few years later, with these two working at the same company, has the relationship between these two started to change?

Hasumi Seiji, who teaches English at a high school, is affectionately known as "Hasumin" by his students. He's popular, good-looking, kind to everyone, and efficient at teaching and solving problems. However, this "perfect" teacher has a much darker side.

"You were thrown away." No matter how many times you whisper that to me, I still... believe.

University student Yunoki Kouhei continues to wait for his lover to contact him. One day, when Yunoki comes to, he's in his friend's room. However, he's on a bed, and is stark naked......
His "friend" Yuzurihara is a sociable guy with good looks, and is someone who he somehow got close to in university. Pinned by Yuzurihara's gaze, Yunoki questions, "Are you going to assault me?" and then...

Due to a harsh experience in life, Haruno eventually becomes a cleaning specialist in the field of clearing the remnants of the deceased. After a particular day, Haruno becomes involved in the curious case of 'END'.

Originally published in the Towako series.
Towako Volume 2: The Anthropovore's Chocolate Cake

A collection of surrealist short stories.

She is a fat ugly girl with a short body; she's a girl who used to be a loner, loser and always hated by everyone. It only takes one of a stranger's ‘abracadabras’ to turn her into a beauty and to stop the bullying.

Though it comes with a price: she can’t kiss "him" or go under any rain, or she'll become ugly again.

The protagonist, Kotaro lives together with his 3 sexy step-sisters

Asahi Sonorama (2000):
1. Kinpatsu no Sougen :
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.

Enter KODAI Narisu, an 18 year-old home-care worker who is newly assigned to look after Ayumu. To his great surprise, Narisu looks exactly like the girl he had fallen for when he was twenty and he immediately mistakes Narisu for her.

Narisu, on the other hand, is trying to deal with her own secret love. She is living amidst the uncertainties of youth, struggling to find her way.

Ayumu's happy dream. Narisu's fragile and sometimes painful reality. The story takes place in an old house, where these two contradicting worlds intertwine with each other through their words and exchanges. Ayumu gradually begins to realize what is real, until one day, he decides to find out whether what he believes to be his life is in fact a dream.

2. Yumemushi Hitsujigusa
3. Mizumakura Hanemakura
4. Ama no kaguyama
5. Non Regaato
6. Dahlia no Obi Less...

In whose hands is your life?

Four short stories:
- Kusakan no Hime: The varid speculations concerning Kiriko: Evil Spirit, Demon, Ghost, Witch.
Gossiping concerning Kifune: Stupid, Bisexual, Male-whore.
She defends him so he decides to ask her out.
Is there truth behind these words of malice?
- Haine Yonde
- Yohane Gasuki
- Itai Natsume Itakunai Natsume

From Girls' Generation Scanlations:

Katsuragi Shiho casually handed her house key to Shikibu before leaving her hometown. After not returning on the third day as she had promised, Shikibu probes around and finds a lead that brings him to "Yasha Island".

However, the strange rituals being held on the island, Shikibu's investigation records getting stolen, and finding Katsuragi's name in the house of blood among other mysterious occurences all point to Katsuragi having vanished into thin air! Shikibu is bent on finding out the truth, but the islanders all seem to have been silenced by somebody...?!

Yoonbum, a scrawny quiet boy, has a crush on one of the most popular and handsome guys in school, Sangwoo. One day, with Yoonbum's growing obsession towards Sangwoo reaching its peak, Yoonbum decides to break into Sangwoo's home. But what he saw inside was not what he had dreamed of.

[First Prize winner of Lezhin's 2nd World Comic Contest.]

An adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's eponymous novel.

It's Tokyo and the year is 1924. A young tradesman by the name of Minoura Kinnosuke finds his fiancée murdered inside a locked room. As he struggles to find the culprit, a doctor by the name of Moroto Michio, who has long harboured unrequited feelings towards Minoura, offers to help solve the case.

A story about a girl who finds a peculiar glasses store, and how those glasses change her.

Creator-approved translation by TheElusiveTaco.


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The first part of a collaborative Yume Nikki Doujinshi with ★Effects★ as its theme. A compilation of the following 12 effects:★Blonde★ ★Knife★ ★Umbrella★ ★Stoplight★★Towel★ ★Buyobuyo★ ★△Kerchief★ ★Fat★★Midget★ ★Neon★ ★Severed Head★ ★Witch★

A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.

Makoto Okazaki is your run of the mill high-schooler, a perfect bullying target and a closet pervert. One night he decides to return a DVD to a friend of his and ventures out into the darkness. He notices a person on a nearby rooftop. The person lunges at him before he is able to make sense of this, and bites into his neck, drinking his blood. The attacker stops. At this point Makoto notices that the attacker is a beautiful girl. She asks him: "Do you want to die or become like me?" He decides to live...