All of a sudden, you took my hand in yours
So that we wouldn't get separated in the crowd
I was so happy I couldn't squeeze your hand
Very tightly in return
That day, I realized I was in love
We started out as just friends
But now let's cross that boundary line
And take off together
I can't hold my feelings back anymore
It hurts so much I could cry
I love you so much
Listen, I can't lie to myself
Now I don't need to hold back
This is embarrassing to ask, but
Please accept everything about me
Yes, now and forever
The Poison Doujin of Horror
SuperMANGA RESURRECTION SERIES
Doujin...
I bet that's Taishi.
Momonga!
Super MANGA
It couldn't be... Damn him...
Doujin...
Hey you, Great Eimi sneaker!
It's not "sneaker," it's "stalker."
You couldn't wait until Comipa for my new issue,
and came here as an illustrial spy, didn't you?!
That's " industrial spy."
Well, either way, you still didn't use it right.
Well too bad! I haven't even finished the rough draft for this manuscript yet.
So make like a tree and get out of here!
"Make like a tree and leave."
Dang it, stop correcting me every single time!
What are you even doing here in the first place?
Whatever do you mean, Eimi Ohba?
Have you forgotten that I always show up without any reason?
More importantly, are you sure you should be ignoring the stalker?
Oh yeah!
Doujin...
What's this?
FREEZE!
Don't look at that, Eimi Ohba!
Let go of it! You'll get hit with its poison waves!
SuperMANGA
That is the doujin of horror, the Poison Doujin!
Anyone who looks at the poison manga inside...
Poison manga?
Hmm, sounds interesting!
I, the Great Eimi Ohba, will give my opinion of it!
Let's see...
Say...
Yes?
Huh? Yes?
Well, never mind.
Hi ya! Kazuki, are you here?
I brought some nice refreshments today.
Have you heard of it?
The number-one ranked choice for refreshments among manga authors,
the yakiniku boxed lunch!
Eimi? And even Aya too.
This is unusual, for the three of you to get together so close to Comipa.
Did something happen?
Allow me to explain.
What's with you, Taishi?
Don't you want to know why these three young ladies have gathered here at Elsinore?
You know?
Of course!
You see...
Taishi, what in the world...
What are you doing, My Brother?
Certainly I was enticed by the allure of the elusive refreshment,
the Doujouen yakiniku boxed lunch.
But you see...
No one said anything about the boxed lunch!
What's this?
NO!
Hey, Yu!
No, you shouldn't look at it.
I shouldn't?
Comrade Kazuki...
Don't tell me you do not know of the Poison Doujin.
Poison Doujin? What's that?
To think that you've entered the doujin world, and yet you do not know of the Poison Doujin.
That's as foolish as trying to talk about popular songs from the Showa era
without knowing about Taro Hitofushi.
Well, what is it?
Poison Doujin...
It is the doujin of horror, and once you turn its pages,
you lose 100 days off of your doujin life span.
100 days? What are you talking about?
I've heard about what Taishi's talking about too.
You too, Aya?
Don't tell me that's why the three of you...
Hey, the name of the circle on the back cover
is our college's manga club!
What? is our college's manga club!
Kazuki!
Sorry to keep you waiting!
It has begun.
Club Meeting Hall
This is the old club meeting hall.
Club Meeting Hall It's just as creepy as I expected.
Club Meeting Hall Actually, I've never been inside either.
But doesn't your club have a club room in there?
Only on paper.
But there is a legend that I'm a little worried about.
Club Meeting Hall But there is a legend that I'm a little worried about.
Club Meeting Hall
Legend?
What do you want to do? Quit?
No, I'm going.
You can stay behind if you want, Mizuki.
What are you talking about? I'm going too!
You're really sure about this?
That was a nice display of resolve, My Brother and My Sister.
Taishi! Why you!
Take this!
And this!
I can't believe you!
This is our college's Kitora tomb.
A quite appropriate place for us to mark our first step toward world conquest, is it not?
What are you talking about?
I just came to find out who's playing this practical joke about the Poison Doujin.
Poison Doujin!
So you really do intend to go to the manga club after all?
Is this the wildness of youth? Or is it a tragedy woven by ignorance?
Hey...
No, I will no longer try to stop you.
Come, let us go, young men and women.
Beyond this door of horror, as your convictions demand!
SuperMANGA
Doujin...
SuperMANGA
Comic Party Revol...
Sheesh, some " Door of Horror" this is.
It's just old and creaky.
But...
Kazuki, look!
What the heck is that?
Manga Research Club
It looks like the legend is true.
Legend?
Look!
What the...
They're tea bags.
Tea bags?
There are ten great horrors of the old club meeting hall. This is number five.
The legendary " black tea cactus."
A nightmarish cactus field,
made up of a countless number of tea bags that were thrown up on the ceiling and stuck there!
That sure does sound like a nightmare...
Huh? Is that you, Reiko?
Yuka, Miho, Mayu!
What are you guys doing here?
Not good. I seriously can't draw!
Panda...
Me neither.
Po..Poison Doujin?
You know about it?
No.
What's that? No.
What's that? Of course!
Huh? You know about it, Mayu?
You've heard about it, haven't you?
They say it's a doujinshi that the manga club made a looong, looong, looong time ago.
Oh! Oh, that?
But I heard that it was banned, and completely burned a long time ago.
It looks like it's being distributed again.
The Poison Doujin?
What are the three of you so shocked about?
Don't tell me you're going to the manga club.
That's what we plan on doing.
You can't!
You can't go there.
I can't?
Manga Research Club I can't?
Manga Research Club Doujin...
Manga Research Club
Poison... Doujin...
100 days?
Do you seriously think that intimation like that could possibly work on me,
the genius, the Great Eimi?
You mean " intimidation."
Well, whatever.
If that's what you think, then try drawing one picture.
Fine, just watch.
To drain or destroy talent, that is the fearsome destructive power of the Poison Doujin.
Even the talented Eimi Ohba won't likely be able to draw.
What's going on here?
What's happened to me, the genius, the Great Eimi?
They said the manga club's room is all the way in the back, right?
Those girls seemed really scared.
Of the Poison Doujin, huh? Yeah, I guess you're right.
Well, they're just like Yu and Eimi.
No, you're wrong.
About what?
About why those three were so scared.
I'm sure it's not just the Poison Doujin.
This is it! Number seven of the Ten Great Horrors!
Number seven?
That must be the legendary huge wave, Big Wednesday!
Do you realize how many young people have been killed by that wave?
My Brother and My Sister!
Come now, arise!
We must go immediately, for the sake of our world conquest!
Tremendous!
Taishi!
Comics?
The huge number of comics and doujinshi
that the manga and anime clubs buy and buy during the year
pile up until they collapse under their own weight,
and become a horrifying giant wave.
It collapses on the third Wednesday of December, which is right before Comipa,
so as the years went by, it became known as the legendary giant wave " Big Wednesday."
I... I see...
I wonder if Kazuki and the others are okay?
Don't say something so creepy!
You never know...
Right about now,
he could be caught by an evil, horrifying mask...
Inagawa, what was that just then?
Is something wrong?
No, I just remembered something.
Aya, no!
I thought so.
What do you mean?
Look at this poison manga. Have you seen it somewhere before?
Huh? Seen it before?
This is...
No way!
We're finally in the home stretch.
Hey, Kazuki...
What?
I've been wondering for a while...
Exactly what kind of manga is this Poison Doujin everyone's so afraid of?
Huh?
I forgot to look at the manga inside.
You didn't look? Why, you!
At this rate, we won't make it in time at all!
Huh?
The poison manga...
It is a horrifying manga that is so poorly drawn
it is said to destroy the skills of those who look at it by poisoning their sensitivity.
There's no doubt about it. This is Subie's manga.
See here? Take a look at this.
Look at that bad penwriting!
That's " handwriting."
That is definitely Mikage's handwriting.
Sheesh, what is Subie thinkin'
Could it be... You don't think she was scouted, do you?
Skirted?
Scouted!
But how could someone do something so reckless?
But I've heard about this. This club has a terrifying legend.
Legend?
Mikage, you don't have to bind the books so neatly.
No, I have to!
This is our first comeback issue!
It's a memorable occasion, so I need to bind them perfectly nice and neat!
Kazuki!
And Mizuki and Reiko too!
Oh my, if it isn't Miss Haga.
President!
President? Then he's ...
The shadow president of the manga club.
His name's Tsukishima.
Junichiro the Hack
Are you making doujinshi again?
Junichiro the Hack Yes!
Junichiro the Hack We, the manga research club, are going to regain our former glory!
Junichiro the Hack We have once again begun making doujin which shall rule the otaku world!
The things he's saying kind of remind me of someone.
Has the club been dormant up until now?
I don't know much about it either.
Allow me to explain.
There was a time when the manga club actively produced doujinshi.
However, the excessively poor quality gave birth to the legend of the doujin of horror,
which reduces the doujin life span of those who look at it by a 100 days: the " Poison Doujin."
The doujinshi they sent out were all considered to have poison pages.
In other words,
Do Not Use Manga Research Club In other words,
Do Not Use Manga Research Club sadly, they were completely ostracized from the doujinshi world.
Do Not Use sadly, they were completely ostracized from the doujinshi world.
Do Not Use Needless to say, after that, the manga club was embroiled in a storm of McCarthyism.
Making doujin was deemed to be an evil deed, an immoral act,
and it was completely suppressed.
What a sad story...
Don't act like it's someone else's problem!
But why did you start up again?
It was the suppression.
The college authorities detest literary clubs like vipers,
so they just decided to turn the manga research club into a "ghost club"
without even consulting us,
and they're going to kick us out of the old club meeting hall!
Manga Research Club and they're going to kick us out of the old club meeting hall!
So that's why you decided to make doujin again.
However, there was one big problem.
Our club has been forced to seclude ourselves for so long,
we've lost all of our manga authors.
However, God has not abandoned us!
We were stricken with despair,
but a muse of doujin manga appeared before us!
That's Subaru!
That's right. When I saw Subaru's manga, I had a feeling in my bones.
I knew that with her, the manga club could once again climb to the heights of the doujin world.
And so, I immediately invited Subaru to be the main guest author in our doujinshi.
And that's how the Poison Doujin was revived, huh?
As well as the destructively bad tastes which produced the poison manga in the first place.
I guess it really is true that blood is thicker than water.
Mikage, let's grab that doujin star together!
Subaru will do her best too!
Subaru, there's one thing I don't understand though.
Why was that doujinshi sent to Eimi, Yu and Aya's apartments?
Subaru asked the president to do that.
You did?
Yes!
They're stars of the doujin world, and I really wanted them to help with the next doujinshi!
And I thought that if I left it with people in popular circles,
our first comeback issue would sell lots and lots,
so those are the first places I had him take it to.
I see. That's why...
What's wrong, Kazuki?
Oh, I just remembered something,
about that "Your doujin life span will be reduced by 100 days" thing.
Now that I think about it,
we could be doing doujinshi for years,
so 100 less days isn't all that big of a deal.
Oh, you're right.
Now that you mention it, that's true.
Why are you laughing, guys?
Whatever the reason, I'm glad you're happy!
SuperMANGA
Doujin...
Let's start living together right now
All that's missing is time
Don't you think we need a place
Where we can share our smiles, our tears
And our free time?
If I was with you, I could stay there forever
I know you don't like anything complicated
But I still keep on pulling your arms
I finally found this 2LDK
A table set would be fine too
But I think a kotatsu would be better after all
The time we spend just lying around together
Is more important than it sounds
It's not easy to find
Someone you can always accept
And who will always accept you
But you are that person for me, so
Let's start living together right now
All that's missing is time
Don't you think we need a place
Where we can share smiles, our tears
And our free time?
If I was with you, I could stay there forever
Next Comic Party
Say, Ms. Sawada, I know it's rather rude to ask you this all of a sudden, but...
Next Comic Party What? You want to come watch us work?
Next Comic Party Yes! What? You want to come watch us work?
Next Comic Party Yes! Good idea.
Next Comic Party Good idea.
Next Comic Party I guess it would be good for you to take a look at the professional world at least once.
Next Comic Party May I?
Next Comic Party I think it would be good for you to think about
Next Comic Party how it's the same and how it's different from the doujinshi world, and then make your decision.
Next Comic Party I'm looking forward to it!
Next Comic Party I don't mind, but don't be disappointed, okay?
Next Comic Party Huh? What do you mean by that?
Next Comic Party Next time: "Arise Kazuki, It Is Time for World Conquest"
Next Comic Party Arise Kazuki, I t Is Time for World Conquest Next time: "Arise Kazuki, It Is Time for World Conquest"
Next Comic Party Arise Kazuki, I t Is Time for World Conquest Now is the time for me to decide what I want to do.
Next Comic Party Arise Kazuki, I t Is Time for World Conquest