Hideout (manga)

Hideout is a psychological horror manga written and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki. Hideout is serialized in the monthly magazine Big Comic Spirits and published by Shogakukan. The manga was released as one volume in Japan on 30 November 2010.[1]

Hideout
The cover of Hideout
GenrePsychological horror
Manga
Hideout
Written byMasasumi Kakizaki
Published byShogakukan
MagazineBig Comic Spirits
DemographicSeinen
Published30 November 2010 (tankōbon)
Volumes1

It was later published in German, Spanish, French and Czech.

Plot

On a supposedly idyllic vacation island, Seichi Kirishima and his wife Miki Kirishima are pinned down by a heavy rain somewhere in the island's interior. But this does not deter Seichi, it determined him, his decision is clear: Tonight, he will kill his wife.

Just a year ago, he was a happy man - an aspiring writer, a contented husband, and a father of a young boy... at that time, everything was going well for him. But such happiness came to end. The day his editor put an end to their collaboration, darkness seeped into his life faster than a bullet. A terrifying descent into hell commences, page by page of what it seems to be his last novel...

Characters
  • Seichi Kirishima: The main protagonist. He is a former writer and the husband of Miki Kirishima. After losing his son, he brought his wife on a vacation on which he planned on murdering her.
  • Miki Kirishima: Seichi's wife. She is angry at her husband after their only son's death.
  • The Old man: The main antagonist. He is depraved of sunlight as he lives inside a dark cave for his life, takes women as prisoners and consumes the flesh of male stragglers.

List of chapters
  • Chapter 1: "Wicked Eyes"
  • Chapter 2: "Nightmare"
  • Chapter 3: "Everybody Dies"
  • Chapter 4: "Help Me"
  • Chapter 5: "Reversal"
  • Chapter 6: "Buried Alive"
  • Chapter 7: "Dead Or Alive"
  • Chapter 8: "New Family"
  • Epilogue: "Death Spiral"

References
  1. "ＨＩＤＥＯＵＴ". Shogakukan (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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