Dragon Head (2025)

The end of everyone was just the beginning… Minetaro Mochizuki’s classic 90s head-trip disaster manga is now in print!EXPERIENCE THE MIND-BENDING MASTERPIECE LIKE NEVER BEFOREThe end of everyone was only the beginning…Teru and his high school class are returning from a field trip when a catastrophic something derails their train, burying them in a tunnel and killing nearly everyone aboard. Among the hellish heap of mangled bodies Teru discovers two survivors, but their nightmare has only just begun. Trapped in unending shadow with sudden, violent earthquakes shaking their sanity, the three must find a way to escape to the outside world and make it back home—if home still exists…An award-winning, terrifying tour de force by Minetaro Mochizuki, the manga giant whose seminal story Hauntress first introduced the horrors of stalking to the Japanese public and who penned the manga adaptation for Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, this gripping spinechiller digs deep into the darkness lurking just beneath the surface of society and the bloody cost of survival amidst apocalyptic ruin.

The end of everyone was just the beginning… Minetaro Mochizuki’s classic 90s head-trip disaster manga is now in print!AGAINST ALL ODDS THEY ESCAPE THE ABYSS, ONLY TO FIND EVEN GREATER DARKNESS…Teru and Ako finally escape the tunnel, but the mystery of whatever caused their horrible train crash only deepens when they find nothing but ruins, abandoned buildings, and unending gloom above ground. Soon, however, they see suspiciously human-like shadows slinking about and chase after them in a last-ditch effort to find someone—anyone—else alive.But even friendly faces conceal their own darkness, and sometimes the people we implicitly trust can turn out to be the most dangerous of all.ABOUT THE AUTHORAcclaimed author Minetaro Mochizuki first broke into the world of manga with his short story Tadatada Honobono Heart (A Simply Lovely Heart), which in 1984 won the Chiba Tetsuya Award for newcomers, a distinguished prize named for the preeminent author of Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow. Two of Mochizuki’s works, Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna (Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl) and Dragon Head have been adapted into live-action films, and his series Ochanoma (The Living Room) was adapted into a live-action drama.Dragon Head earned him the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize—one of the manga industry’s most coveted awards established in honor of the tremendously influential author of Astro Boy and Buddha—as well as the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

The end of everyone was just the beginning… Minetaro Mochizuki’s classic 90s head-trip disaster manga is now in print!A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MEDICINE LEADS STRAIGHT INTO THE HEART OF MADNESSLost in a ghost town, Ako and Teru form a shaky alliance with two soldiers who defected from their squad amidst the chaos: Nimura, the loose cannon in charge of the AWOL crew, and Iwata, their helicopter pilot. But when Teru falls severely ill, it’s up to Ako to embark on a days-long hike with Nimura to find the medicine that might save Teru’s life.Just before they reach their destination, however, the two encounter a young man with surgical scars covering his scalp. Strangely unable to feel pain, he mutters two cryptic words he claims explain the catastrophe that’s devastated Japan: dragon head. But before they can dig deeper, a gang of murderous rioters emerges from the shadows…PRAISE FOR DRAGON HEAD “Dragon Head is essential reading for horror fans. It’s a slow burn that forgoes shock value for psychological depth and atmosphere…”—Behind the Manga“Gritty, harrowing and blood-soaked, [Dragon Head] is a manga that should instantly appeal to fans of Battle Royale.”—IGN“An experience, not a story. […] Powerfully scary and creepy.”—Anime News Network