Majo no Eden - Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[halcer]

this is really interesting!

 

[Syanindita]

Good stuff

 

[MoonlightFairy]

Another one for my collection. Hope this is great!

 

[EasternFox]

Manga of this quality is a cut above the rest, in the league and potential of The Ancient Magus' Bride.

 

[starbrownie]

this looks cool

 

[Kaiser92]

Any real life plant researcher can pitch in their 2 cents? This kinda looks like a Japanese version of The Happening.

 

[nyaasar]

The panelling works kinda remind me of that Witch Hat Atelier.

 

[JessBia]

Thank you so much for this manga

 

[Kattz]

I get that Tura didn't want to shatter her naive apprentice's pure view of the world, but not warning her of the outside more proved to be incredibly dangerous. So sad.

 

[Grikath]

Any real life plant researcher can pitch in their 2 cents? This kinda looks like a Japanese version of The Happening.

I immediately got the feeling this one is heavily influenced by Comés. A belgian bande-dessinée (not! a "comic"..) artist with a portfolio that... is unique.

Nowadays he's so obscure even wikipedia only has an entry in french ( don't even try to find his albums for a reasonable price, if you can find them at all....) , but boy.. did that guy's "comics" ( published monthly in "Robbedoes" in the late '70's, early '80's) give me.... not nightmares, but disturbing dreams at the time.. And no... Not the precocious happy ones Natasha, Flight Stewardess and several others did...

If there's an european artist that was Goth before Goth, and a definition of "Seinen" ever existed in Europe it was him.

And if you wonder why Euro GenX is the way they are... That stuff was published in a magazine aimed at kids.. It had no sex, nudity, or even "suggestion", so it was..."safe" ( or considered "they won't understand it"..)... With the Atom Bomb a reality™ the Adults probably thought it was good mental preparation, just in case..

So "safe" I still can drag it up from the fetid pit of pre-teen memories and do a google search on keywords on the imagery...
edit: oh goodie, an english page.. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Comès
french page (obviously much more elaborate...) : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comès

This is where Stuff Gets Weird...

"Shadow of the Raven". WWI, and as one would expect, that bambi is not supposed to be there. It gets a lot more weird and ... dark.. after that.
This one passed censorship, his other stuff.. Disturbing/Realistic begins to describe it. In ways that Manga gets All The Warning! Tags.
And at least the first pages of that stuff got published in "kid's weekly's" ( they weren't.. Just considered that because "comics" weren't taken seriously, and there was...). He was considered 'One of the Best"...

And now I know why I remember it.. The Censors of the time caught up, and it never got finished in the weekly format, and it would take another half-decade for me to become old enough to buy the issue, by which time it became both esoteric and Collectible...
(and let's be fair... the "girl" thing may have occupied most of the one brain cell I had at that age...)
Well out of reach of my humble purse gained by paper-round and first real job...

Edit of edits: I think I've got most of my godawful typing out of it and the links and original typo's right.
There may be hope... And a lesson in not ever trying this again on a Mobile Device with predictive text that you can't turn off.....