is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by Seiman Douman. It was serialized in

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's ''Young Champion Retsu'' magazine from October 2006 to March 2015 and published in three volumes.

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Written and illustrated by Seiman Douman, the series began serialization in

's ''Young Champion Retsu'' magazine on October 17, 2006. It completed its serialization on March 17, 2015. The series' individual chapters were collected into three ''

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'' volumes. In September 2017,

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announced that they licensed the series for English publication.

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Rebecca Silverman of

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praised the characters and setting, though she noted the series "often feels too deliberately weird". Silverman also praised Seven Seas Entertainment's allusion to

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' 1977 song "

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" on the back of the book. A columnist for Manga News praised the use of horror and comedy in the story. He also compared it to the works of

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and

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