The autobiographically tinted novel "Marked" by Osamu Dazai is one of the most frequently interpreted texts in Japan. The work is often compared to Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" both in its narrative structure, where the author and the fictional protagonist are equated, and in its claim to reality with parallel abstraction. Shaped by anxiety, addictions, and suicide attempts, Dazai's alter ego stumbles through his own hell. Junji Ito adapts the protagonist's path of suffering with subtle horror, illustrating the lifelong obsession of a person alienated from himself and society in surreal nightmares. Standalone volume.