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Dogura MaguraAuthor: Yumeno Kyūsaku

Original Title	ドグラ・マグラ
Author	夢野久作
Genre	Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	A man awakens in a sterile, windowless room with no memory of his name or past. His disheveled appearance and grime-caked limbs mirror his fractured psyche as he grapples with disembodied voices echoing through concrete walls—a woman’s anguished pleas, claiming to be his resurrected fiancée, murdered by his hand. Confined in what appears to be a psychiatric facility, he encounters Dr. Wakabayashi, a foreboding academic who reveals unsettling truths: the man is central to an experimental “Liberation Therapy” targeting repressed memories tied to a gruesome, unsolved crime. As doctors groom him into a polished student’s likeness, he confronts a hauntingly beautiful patient whose sleep murmurs unravel fragments of tragic love and guilt. Between hallucinatory visions and cryptic explanations of “mental science,” reality blurs—is he a victim, a perpetrator, or both? The line between experiment and nightmare dissolves, leaving him adrift in a labyrinth of identity, betrayal, and spectral voices demanding answers only he can unearth… if his shattered mind dares to remember.