CROAK (2021)

Seven years ago, an attempt to weaponize dreams resulted in holes being punched through the world we know and into the world of dreams. Nightmarish creatures now stalk the land, sprouting from (and killing) anyone unlucky enough to dream. The only way to save the world is for certain people to have their dreams come true. Which is how Risa Harumi finds herself not only fighting monsters, but forced into finding true love. Monsters and modern dating? It feels like a nightmare either way, and the only help Risa has is a friendly-ish monster named Croak and her pre-teen daughter, Machi. From Paul Tobin (BUNNY MASK) and Andy MacDonald (I BREATHED A BODY, Multiple Man), comes a unique story of one woman's quest to save the world, if only she could learn the difference between love and monsters.

What's one more monster in a world filled with horror? A LOT, really, when it's as bad as this one! Risa and Croak set off to fight this new terror, even as Risa fights the knowledge that the only true way she can save the world is by falling in love, like...maybe she should go on some of those dates her daughter set up for her? It's a choice between the creeps and the creepy!

"Machi is being strangled. Croak meets a fox woman. Risa goes on a string of terrible dates, and Genka finally manages to have a good idea. Meanwhile, all the horrors of the world of nightmares are creeping closer, more than a few people are going to die and someone's going to end up bald, but, hey: at least there's a dog."

Kitchen gunfire claims the life of a refrigerator. A fox woman guiding the way, probably. Machi on a date...maybe? And Risa and Croak at a secret government installation devoted to making her fall in love with the perfect man in order to save the whole world - which would already be pretty dang whacked, but now there's an actual nightmare on the loose and blood in the halls. Ain't love grand?

Risa and Genka meet at last, but it's rather difficult to have love in the air when the air is so thoroughly stuffed with chaos and the blaring alarms of a major monster breakout! Plus, Risa uncovers the true secret of the nightmares, a secret that will rock the very foundations of her belief in this world, and the ones beyond. Meanwhile, Croak eats a lot of pests. Things are messy all over!