Books like Nightmare Inspector: Yumekui Kenbun, Vol. 8: Madness

Another tasty collection of bad dreams for our Baku. Out of all the episodic ‘horror’ manga there is on offer, I have only liked a handful and seeing as I’m up to volume 8 of this, you can draw the conclusion this is one of them ( Ghost Hunt is the other). I like this one because Hiruko, Hifumi and Misako are more than framework for the horror as in so many others.The dreams included in this one include one about childhood friendship that was really more about a bully and his victim who’s finally tired of it. Kairi, the owner of the fantasy-maker club Delirium, gets trapped in his own club and Hifumi and Hiruko go to help him. Perhaps the most interesting of the dreams is the one where the dreamer is setting up traps to capture Baku putting Hiruko and his rival, Tsukishiro, at risk. Hifumi plays two central roles in a couple dreams, a serious one about his friend’s inn which leaves Hiruko injured and the absolutely silly one where Hifumi finds himself in an arranged married to Shigoroku, a cross-dressing wealthy daughter who is pretty much Hifumi was a woman. The next volume also sounds too interesting to wait long to buy it.