Kinoshita Mairu has a cute name and she's apologetic for it, because she's ugly. In fact, she's apologetic for her very existence because she's not cute. Classmates call her "Poison Mushroom" behind her back and even her own brother treats her with disdain. However, all of that is about to change with the help of her transgender mentor/neighbor, Fuwari-chan, and the "school king," Kumada Tenyuu!

Welcome to one of the most disturbing minds in Japanese manga! Hideshi Hino has long been considered a master of the horror manga genre since his coming out in the late seventies. And the four stories in Lullabies from Hell will show you how demented the man can be.

The self-titled first chapter introduces you to the author himself, a horror quasi-biography of sorts. The second story tells of Hino's having willed his pregnant wife into birthing a horrible, planet-devastating reptile baby that eats puppies and children! And you can imagine how the stories progress from there.

Take a look inside the mind of a madman! Published in the popular, unretouched and unflopped manga format, Lullabies from Hell might make sleeping a bit of a challenge!

This graphic novel by one of Japan's most accomplished artists tells the unsettling saga of twin sisters born on a dark and stormy night in Tokyo: one normal, and one a demon baby with a taste for blood--a Hell Baby. Tossed into a garbage dump in a plastic bag, Hell Baby dies, but is brought back to life by an unworldly bolt of lightning. Hell Baby develops hard-earned hunting techniques to survive life among the wild animals who roam the dump. After struggling along for seven years, she seeks revenge for her fate and returns to the city, where she applies her hunting skills for survival--this time against the good citizens of Tokyo.

Replete with Hino's trademark black humor and unflinching imagery, Hell Baby is a classic horror tour de force.

Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby. They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends until one day, their relationship takes a sudden twist. What does it mean to love someone? What can you really do about it? Follow the story of their adolescence and relationship as it unfolds through a brilliant summer.

Collection of interconnecting oneshots:

1) Con Te (With You)
A waiter, Neri, working in a high-end restaurant likes intellectual gentlemen and is currently involved in a "sexual relationship" with a third-class politician. Will the politican ever become the gentleman Neri prefers?

2) Orso e Intellettuale (Bear and Intellectual)
A politican and a photographer meet during a holiday. But is the photographer really what he said he is?

3) Manifesto

4) Discorso del Gelato (Discussion of Ice Cream)

5) Uomo che è stato Inseguito (Man Who was Chased)

6) La Camera del Primo Pomeriggio (The Room of Early Afternoon)

7) Sigaro (Cigar)

8) Ricco e Riparatore (Rich Man and Repairman)

9) Kuroyama-san no Nioi (Mr. Kuroyama's Scent)

A wandering blind man is taken off the street and brought to a brothel, where hopefully one of the girls can help him find the daughter he’s looking for.

From the mind of Noboru Miyama comes Godo! An adventure set in a mysterious and weird world with influences from Norse mythology. "Put an end to this cursed world! That is your fate!". An alchemist by the name of Godo whose father was charged with theft must seek revenge for his father and his own freedom as he participates in the fighting festival known as Valhalla.

When a person dies, their soul leaves the body in the form of a butterfly and the body itself rots away quickly after.

Ono lost his entire family in a plane crash fourteen years ago. But since this tragedy, the body of Senri, his twin sister, is still intact while the butterfly that contains his soul was stolen by a mysterious individual during the accident, leaving her unconscious and in a vegetative state.

In order to get back his sister's butterfly, Ono joins the famous "Death Bureau", a state agency specialized in the capture, conservation and management of the butterflies before they disappear for good 49 days after their host death.

Using the butterflies, the family of the deceased can come in contact with their loved ones in the form of a 3D hologram.

Inspector Sudo is known for always succeeding in retriewing the items stolen by the notorious thief Grey, a master of disquise, who is able to steal the goods even though he sends the police a notice on what he intends to steal beforehand. How is Sudo able to get the stolen items back from this evasive burglar?

Seeking the ideal of a matchless, eternal love, a man calls upon a mansion...

Teacher in training Watanabe suddenly receives a confession from her student Shirakawa Miyuki.

A poor college student who is struggling to make ends meet was introduced to a job in the male service industry. How will he react in his new job? Worse, he is to face the beautiful No 1 host!

Ho-Kyung likes the violin, but born to a normal family, he has no intention of pursuing it as a career. When he was young, it was the small violin given to him by his friend Uiju that created the small passage connecting him to music. Now as a high school student, one accident destroys the precious violin and leads Ho-Kyung to an encounter with the violin repair workshop… A journey begins with a very simple wish, the desire to have his own violin.

No.2 (the rudest and stupidest guy), happens to live with an orphan named Jun Jeh Young (who has the key to find a diamond). The Sencream Gang is looking for this diamond. Meanwhile, Jun Jeh Young starts to have feeling for No.2 (the stupid guy). Seeing her growing LOVE for No.2, Lee Woo Yeun (another guy) starts to gain feelings for Jeh Young. At the same time No.2 wonders if what he feels for Jeh Young is LOVE--or just another feeling.

Spore virus has been affecting millions of people. This is a short 8-episode story of two different people whose close companions are infected by the spore virus.

A beautiful, peaceful city is sent into a crisis when zombies suddenly emerge. The government is powerless to help and the citizens are left to fight for themselves. In another city, a man hurries to travel thousands of miles to save his family. This is where our story begins.

After getting married, the bride suddenly sees her new husband with another woman? Their honeymoon is at stake from the start!

A story about a fallen superhero and the totally normal girl who saves him.

From Turtle Paradise:
16-year-old Kizuna stalks the city at night, flirting with middle-aged salary men and coercing them out of their money. The thrill should be enough to satiate her, but Kizuna remains unsatisfied with her everyday life. That is, until the beautiful Inoue Yuki, also living in "Birdcage Manor" approaches Kizuna with a job proposition- to model in the nude for Yuki´s cousin, a painter and fellow resident Yusei Asai.

Jo is your average manga artist slash divorcee, a dime a dozen in Japan. At least that's what he'd like the outside world to believe. But his editor Nichika knows his terrible secret, a secret which she threatens to expose unless he puts a ring on her finger.

What is Jo to do when he is still deeply traumatized by a past divorce? Why, marry her of course! After all, don't people say to "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer?"