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In the university laboratory of a brilliant and unorthodox female professor, her young female assistant finds herself drawn into a world of dizzying intellectual sparring and inexplicable phenomena. The professor, a charismatic figure who dispenses dubious knowledge with theatrical flair, claims to be working on the “Plan of the Renaissance of the Human Mind,” a project whose true nature remains deliberately obscure. As the pair engage in rapid-fire, philosophically charged dialogues, the boundaries of reality within the lab begin to warp: time and space behave oddly, experiments produce impossible results, and the professor casually performs feats that seem to border on the supernatural, such as generating computer graphics from living girls or extracting human emotions. The assistant, initially a skeptical observer, gradually becomes both a confidante and an unwitting test subject, while hints of a larger conspiracy emerge—mysterious figures pursue the professor, and the laboratory itself seems to exist in a strange pocket of reality.

The story unfolds through a series of intense conversation-driven episodes that blend academic satire, psychological thriller, and surreal comedy. Volume one establishes the uneasy teacher-student dynamic and the ominous promise of the “Renaissance” plan. Volume two deepens the ethical stakes, as the professor ruthlessly cuts through questions of truth and justice, forcing the assistant to confront her own moral boundaries. Volume three introduces the idea that truth is not absolute but relative and psychological, and reveals that the professor may be a “witch-making machine” who can reshape minds and realities at will. Each volume expands the mystery of the professor’s origins and the true purpose of her research, while the assistant’s growing complicity and curiosity blur the line between disciple and victim. The narrative is deliberately unpredictable, with the setting—a single laboratory—becoming a stage for dizzying shifts in perspective, bizarre experiments, and conversations that range from the deeply philosophical to the absurdly mundane.
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Gengaku Shijū Sōdan
衒学始終相談
Type: Manga
Date: 04/03/2022
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Comedy
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  • Story & Art
    Yoshiharu Mishima