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Lychee Light Club

Published
Apr 2011
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Fantasy Fantasy
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"The Lychee Light Club is considered Usamaru Furuya''s breakthrough work. Originally designed as an experiemental project Lychee''s themes of youthful rebellion and deus ex machina destruction, and attractive designs eventually won over a new generation of readers and critics, leading the way for Furuya to take on his many recent high profile properties.

In an abandoned warehouse, a band of nine students have assembled to plot out a new future.  Their ""leader"" Zera is determined to cleanse his community of the ugly and cowardly. Having taken command of a band of young men to build him a god-like machine capable of changing the world.  This machine, named ""Lychee,"" will give them what they''ve been searching for...a beauty of the finest quality.

A surreal yet touching horror comedy Furuya''s Lychee Light Club that mixes elements of French Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol and with modern day pop culture tropes and is set in modern day Tokyo. Shocking, sexy and innovative, the Lychee Light Club is at the pinnacle of modern day Japanese seinen manga (young adult comics)."

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First Edition Apr 2011 Vertical ISBN 1935654063
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Aug 2020 Vertical Comics ISBN B0893YRCY8
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Sep 2020 Kodansha USA ISBN 1647290120
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