Human Chair

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.

Originally published as bonus content in Maruo's "Rampo Panorama" artbook (乱歩パノラマ 丸尾末広画集). Based on Edogawa Rampo's short story of the same name, an English translation of which can be found in The Edogawa Rampo Reader (Kurodahan Press, 2008).

After 50 years, the Master Detective makes a magnificent return! Pre-war Tokyo, the Imperial Capital, is a place colored with mystery, beauty, and desire. The curtains rise on a nightly banquet with the ever-beautiful Akechi Kogorou, and sinister, yet spectacular monsters. Edogawa Ranpo’s masterpiece, the Akechi Kogorou series, has been beautifully adapted by the talented Kaoruhara Yoshie! In the first chapter, we will see Akechi Kogorou VS the beautiful phantom thief clad in black, the Black Lizard!

A woman enters a furniture store in search of a chair, but the proprietor is all too eager to reveal its past… This oneshot was adapted from a short story of the same name that was written by Edogawa Ranpo.

Edogawa Rampo Ijinkan is an adaptation of Edogawa Rampo's short stories.

芋虫 [The Caterpillar], is an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. The Caterpillar is a haunting psychosexual tale of Lt. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns home to his young and beautiful wife. Sunaga initially is given a hero's welcome, but is quickly forgotten and shunned because of his injuries. Unable to speak or care for himself, he is completely at the mercy of his wife as she grows to loathe and toy with him.