Nejishiki

Nejishiki is a two-color Japanese surrealist manga written and illustrated by Yoshiharu Tsuge. It follows the story of an unnamed boy who wanders around several unfamiliar places to find a doctor who can fix his pierced artery.

"What you see is just a summary of fuzzy images I've had in my head for a while. I wouldn't say I came up with that story as much as it was just there in my head. That's why, if I were so inclined, I could draw just as many stories like that as I want."

-Nejishiki was adapted as an 8 mm animated production in 1976, and a video game (PC-9800 Series e Sharp X68000) in 1989.
-In 1998, Japanese film director Teruo Ishii adapted the manga into a live-action film (also known as Wind-Up Type).
-Mamoru Oshii referenced it heavily in an episode of Vlad Love (2020) that contained homages to Tsuge's work.
-The manga was also referenced in the Japanese title of Takashi Murakami's Jellyfish Eyes (2013).