Yes, your message was kind of the push I needed to get back into this manga. I never dropped it but it sure had been a while since I last released anything from it.
The Ken Takakura films mentioned in the commentary are likely the "Red Peony Gambler" series, which ran from 1968 until 1972 and includes a total of 8 films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Peony_Gambler
Sexy time with Hino-Sensei will always feel kind of strange. Just not what he's known for! There was a funny bit in an interview with him I read a while ago where he basically said he tried his hand at eroticism but went back to horror because he thought he couldn't draw women the way he wanted to.
There were 4 chapters of the same story, i.e. "The Mad Group" published in 1970/1971. Then there was no more "Tomorrow's Hell" until 2000/2001 when there were at least another 4 chapters of a different story/stories published in the magazine Super Horror. The first one of those is the one that's...
No, you're more than welcome to do the rest of the stories in this book. I just wanted to do this one because a.) I could finish it quickly and b.) I had already translated that one sample page from it a while ago. I'm currently working my way through the essays and interviews in TRAUMA!, the...
This is the end of the "Mad Group" story, yes. The plan was to do more stories set in the same post-apocalyptic world (hence the whole "Part 1" thing) but Shonen Gaho, the magazine where all these appeared, ceased publication in 1971 when it was merged with Shonen King due to declining sales...