DH Publishing/Cocoro, Tokyo, 2004, 1st pr.  ISBN 1-932897-00-3.  Trade soft cover, 179 pages followed by ads.  Unread copy; some colour rubs on wraps.  Rated Adult, Ages 18+.  ‘In this first of two collections of graphic novelas (sic), Hideshi Hino tries his hand at shojo manga – with disturbing results, as young girls on the threshold of womanhood fall prey to one monster after another.  A schoolgirl becomes the victim of a dead, murderous teacher; a teenage beauty queen turns old and haggard overnight; a girl is tormented by an obsessive classmate; and another discovers her school friend is not the pretty little thing she thought her to be…’ (from rear wrap)