Nude Model and Other Stories (manga)

Three tales explore the darker more mature side of Tsubasa Yamaguchi's imagination, where they weave the complex webs that provide little in the way of easy answers, while accurately depicting the strangeness and confusion of life for teenagers and adults alike.

1. Nude Model: a high school delinquent tries to seduce an introverted artist in his class, only for her to turn the tables on him.

2. Girl: a teenage boy becomes in-demand for his recordings of erotic moaning, and uncovers a sexual predator on the school's staff in the process.

3. Kamiya: a young doctor who can't stand the sight of blood overcomes her fears by going to a host club staffed by vampires, only to get caught up in a serial killer's web.

This fascinating, elliptical and alluring collection of shorts is very much more than the sum of its parts.