0081

0081 – Moni Haworth and Lotta Volkova embark on a 320-page fantasy epic featuring artist Raiki Yamamoto. Venturing on a quest across Japan, their journey takes them from the bright lights of the big city to the deserted village of dolls, and features samurai spiders, stranger-than-life pets. inner demons and B-movie horror creatures. In the pages of 0081, artist Raiki Yamamoto travels beyond reality and time from Tokyo to her hometown, the seaside town of Kamakura, leaving behind the noisy echoes of Tokyo, replicas of meals from the restaurant window, the eye. sweets, neon lights and niche bars become a fantastic portal to distant mountains and haunt forests of urban legends and modern folklore. Raiki follows her inner demons on a surreal journey through the looking glass. She finds her own absurd wonderland where the ‘white rabbit’ transforms into humanoid pets. She continues to fight and escape the Kaiju monsters that lurk between concrete jungle and nature, temples and shrines, sea and sky. She learns the ancient art of samurai spider-fighting, and this reverie eventually leads her back to her hometown of Kamakura.