Mermaid's Gaze

Rumiko Takahashi's Mermaid's Gaze is a haunting 1996 one-shot from Viz, collecting a pair of eerie short stories that explore immortality and isolation through the lens of Japanese folklore. Takahashi, best known for her long-running epics, here delivers a taut, atmospheric horror tale centered on a cursed man and a mermaid's flesh. While brief, this volume stands as a potent example of her versatility, distilling her signature blend of the supernatural and the deeply human into a single, chilling issue.