Yôko Hoshi

"Futei no Kisetsu (I Am an S&M Writer)," is a seriocomic essay on the S&M life, as lived by the writing sensei who grind out S&M novels for those walk-down porno shops patronized by crowds of ordinary-looking, if furtively silent, men. (japantimes.co.uk)

A teenage boy moves to a small town. At first everything seems to be going great for him, until he learns that the town has a secret. As he slowly tries to learn more about the dark secret, he discovers that he may be the next target of a terrible curse that could leave him dead.

On her 18th birthday, Nami witnesses the brutal murder of her parents by a man with a burn on his hand. She is then falsely accused of the crime and sent to jail. Sworn to vengeance, Nami battles corrupt officials and cruel inmates to escape prison, only to search through the underbelly of Japanese society to find the man with a burn on his hand, ‘stinging’ anyone in her way.