Chris and James have lived a life of great shame. Eating dinner disgusted them. The burden of respect hung heavy on their shoulders. And the Great Father that is Nation held them down like a perverted man servant. But now, although disqualified from humanity itself, they have vomited their misfortunes into a psychedelic hell.

Today: Junji Ito's manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human.

"This, I was to learn in later years, was a kind of demonical prophecy."