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A fictional erotic drama follows Miyako as she secretly overhears an intimate confession involving her brother, gender transformation or feminization, and forbidden same-sex desire. The narrative emphasizes secrecy, emotional jealousy, and conflicted sexual id...

A community and publication-information page combines reader messages with notices inviting fiction, essays, illustrations, photographs, and other contributions. It also provides submission procedures, editorial contact information, subscription and purchase d...

A humorous seven-panel comic in which an eager male admirer performs increasingly servile tasks for Mrs. Chakkari in hopes of winning her favor, only to be manipulated and dismissed. The feature uses romantic pursuit and slapstick reversal to satirize unequal...

A confessional-style narrative about a married working woman whose company president makes unwanted advances and attempts to draw her into an affair through gifts, money, special treatment, and workplace pressure. She ultimately resists the president’s coercio...

A newlywed couple exchange intimate pillow talk while recounting unsettling experiences connected with a haunted house. Their conversation blends domestic sexuality, marital teasing, and a progressively eerie supernatural tale involving strange sounds, apparit...

An erotic melodrama unfolds through conversations involving Madame, Arita, and the sisters Yayoi and Akiyo. Past relationships, deception, jealousy, and unresolved desire surface as the characters confront romantic betrayal and the damaging rivalry between sis...

A comic picaresque narrative about a man caught between poverty and sudden access to money. His earnings are spent on conspicuous clothing, food, drinking, gambling, women, and questionable schemes, creating a satirical portrait of postwar urban life and unsta...

A grotesque, comic account combining wartime prisoner wandering in North Korea and Siberia with an episode of compulsive public exposure in a latrine. The piece uses captivity, bodily degradation, scatological humor, and exhibitionism as material for sensation...

A comic, episodic narrative set in the amusement quarters, where opportunistic characters turn found objects, fortune-telling, bogus photographs and paintings, and other street entertainments into scams. The illustrated sketches present nightlife hustling thro...

A sensational, first-person-style illustrated confession about a pro baseball celebrity and a movie star whose relationship becomes entangled with marriage, jealousy, sexual desire, illness, and emotional collapse. The narrative treats celebrity romance as a s...

A first-person account of an unemployed man who develops a calculated method for courting and financially relying on several women simultaneously. The narrative presents overlapping romantic relationships, gifts, money, and social maneuvering as an opportunist...

A first-person story about Ryota, a young man who uses a classified advertisement and his supposed judo or boxing abilities to enter the household of an affluent widow. Through charm, persistence, and calculated attentiveness, he attempts to secure the widow’s...

An erotic narrative follows an unmarried older woman whose dormant sexuality is awakened through the calculated attentions of an experienced man. The story explores her vulnerability, desire, and eventual surrender to seduction.

An erotic relationship narrative framed around marital boredom and misunderstanding depicts a husband and wife discussing sexual dissatisfaction and rediscovering intimacy through experimentation and attentive lovemaking. The text combines bedroom advice with...

A first-person comic tale about a man who encounters an alluring woman at a Kyoto movie theater and becomes entangled in her calculated flirtation. As he follows her through the station and city, his romantic excitement gradually gives way to suspicion that he...

A fictional romantic episode in which a seemingly innocent woman and a nervous salaryman negotiate attraction, money, and trust through a series of encounters. The handbag becomes a recurring object of suspicion and concealment as the relationship develops int...

A marital-advice narrative about a husband who becomes alarmed by his wife’s changed behavior during their period of boredom and hires a private detective to investigate. The inquiry, misunderstandings, and emotional confrontation ultimately serve as a dramati...

A fictional domestic drama portraying the growing emotional and physical distance between husband and wife, Akiko and her husband. Suspicion, sexual frustration, wounded pride, and escalating quarrels expose the fragility of their marriage and drive Akiko towa...

A psychologically charged fiction about an adolescent girl whose fascination with romantic film scenes awakens confused desires and fantasies. The narrative moves between ordinary domestic life, cinematic imagery, and dreamlike experiences as she struggles wit...

A suspenseful family melodrama in which suspicion of an adulterous relationship spreads through a household and provokes jealousy, deception, and confrontation. The story escalates from secretive domestic encounters to physical violence, bloodshed, and a crimi...

A comic erotic tale about a man who hides beneath a bed while evading discovery in a volatile household, then attempts to escape when the danger seems to have passed. The story relies on deception, concealment, and the escalating panic of an illicit encounter.

A serialized collection of brief, humorous erotic anecdotes presented as “curious tales” of urban licentiousness. Through comic dialogue and exaggerated situations, the stories depict infidelity, sexual misadventure, marital conflict, flirtation, and other for...

A comic-erotic series of vignettes set among the residents of a postwar apartment building. Interwoven episodes depict flirtation, adultery, sexual misunderstandings, domestic quarrels, and the eccentric behavior of men and women living in close proximity, acc...

A first-person mountain adventure and curious tale about an encounter with a powerful ape in an isolated rural setting. The account develops into the sensational claim that the ape had sexual relations with a woman and fathered a human child, blending hunting...

The first installment of a comic erotic serial follows the sexually dissatisfied and adventurous Hisako, her husband Nobuo, and a series of rural male acquaintances, including the figure known as Bear Grandpa. Illustrated episodes emphasize marital frustration...

The second installment introduces the character Madame Skunk in a voyeuristic, grotesquely comic erotic episode. The narrative and accompanying illustration focus on sexualized bodily display, clandestine observation, and the character’s provocative behavior.

An Edo-period erotic adventure follows the resourceful 金平 as he pursues encounters with women connected to pleasure quarters, households, and theatrical or elite circles. The serialized narrative combines disguise, pursuit, jealousy, violence, and sexual int...

A collection of erotic stories depicting dancers, entertainers, mistresses, and other women whose intimate lives are shaped by money, contracts, patrons, infidelity, and exploitation. The episodes emphasize backstage and domestic encounters, sexual performance...

A mystery investigation centers on the completely naked, charred body of a young woman discovered after a lodging-house fire. Through witness questioning, scene reconstruction, and autopsy clues, investigators challenge the apparent suicide explanation and pur...

This comparative essay examines sexual modesty among brides, focusing on embarrassment, resistance, and expectations surrounding marriage and the wedding night. It surveys differing customs and attitudes toward female sexuality across communities, including ex...

Part four of a serialized illustrated pulp tale follows Maria and her husband through a volatile world of jealousy, sexual rivalry, cabaret entertainment, and suspected infidelity. The escalating quarrel becomes entangled with violence, a possible murder, miss...

An erotic comic story examines the meaning of a five-hundred-yen payment within a troubled marriage and its surrounding romantic entanglements. Money, jewelry, household finances, and sexual relationships become intertwined as the characters negotiate desire,...

A journalistic account of men who lure and exploit young women through employment offers, promises of secretarial or acting careers, and financial assistance. The cases portray sexual coercion, economic vulnerability, and the women’s descent into prostitution...

A brief cautionary vignette about a gambling-house game in which money is wagered and, when funds run out, a woman’s body becomes the stake. It presents gambling as a setting for humiliation, sexual commodification, and predatory male behavior.

A critical essay examines the gap between the public reputations of popular writers and their private conduct, working habits, ambitions, financial arrangements, and dependence on publishers and literary fame. It satirically contrasts celebrated literary perso...

A social-satirical story portrays impostors posing as police or detectives, stopping students, couples, travelers, and villagers while exploiting their supposed authority for money, food, and personal advantage. Through comic dialogue and illustrations, it exp...

A regional strange tale follows a troubled married couple whose childlessness, infidelity, and hopes for a child become entangled with a stone Jizō and other uncanny events. The story blends domestic sexual anxiety with folk religious belief and supernatural a...

An illustrated miscellany on erotic culture discusses provocative sexual situations and imagery, including department-store encounters, erotic curiosities, and modern sexual behavior. It then turns to shunga and related erotic pictures, considering their artis...

A comic-erotic supernatural tale follows the hapless 留吉 and his encounters with 菊三, women, and fox- or badger-like apparitions. Across episodes involving grotesque bodily transformations, illicit desire, deception, and a climactic “fox dance,” the story bl...

A first-person confession recounts an illicit romantic relationship that develops amid domestic and family tensions, culminating in an attempted lovers’ suicide and its emotional consequences. The piece is framed as melodramatic testimony about forbidden desir...