Lychee Light Club

The <i>Lychee Light Club </i>is considered Usamaru Furuya's breakthrough work. Originally designed as an experiemental project Lychee's themes of youthful rebellion and deus ex machina destruction, and attractive designs eventually won over a new generation of readers and critics, leading the way for Furuya to take on his many recent high profile properties.<br><br>In an abandoned warehouse, a band of nine students have assembled to plot out a new future. Their &quot;leader&quot; Zera is determined to cleanse his community of the ugly and cowardly. Having taken command of a band of young men to build him a god-like machine capable of changing the world. This machine, named &quot;Lychee,&quot; will give them what they've been searching for...a beauty of the finest quality. <br><br>A surreal yet touching horror comedy Furuya's Lychee Light Club that mixes elements of French Le Thétre du Grand-Guignol and with modern day pop culture tropes and is set in modern day Tokyo. Shocking, sexy and innovative, the <i>Lychee Light Club</i> is at the pinnacle of modern day Japanese <i>seinen</i> manga (young adult comics) .