Ultra Heaven

Kabu lives in a future where mind-altering drugs are sold over the counter at licensed "pump bars," where staff doctors mix you the exact blend you want. He has burned through everything legal and feels nothing, so he goes looking for combinations that might stop his heart, because the near-death moment is the only thing left that registers. Then a dealer hands him something called Ultra Heaven. Koike draws the trips in full detail: skin folds rendered in dense hatching, faces that stretch and collapse, page layouts that bend as a mind comes apart. It is a hard, ugly, beautiful book about wanting more than a body can hold.