Suehiro Maruo - The Strange Tale of Panorama Island Manga

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Available from HiFi LoFi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Set in 1920s Japan, the story follows Hirosuke Hitomi, a failed novelist who discovers that his recently deceased university classmate Genzaburo Komoda bore an uncanny resemblance to himself. Hitomi fakes his own death, conceals the body, and successfully assumes Komoda's identity, inheriting his company, fortune, and wife. He then redirects the family's wealth to the realization of his most obsessive dream: the construction of a private pleasure island of total hedonistic excess, replete with g