Mermaid Saga Collector’s Edition (2020)

Rumiko Takahashi's dark side. Folklore says eating mermaid flesh can grant immortality, but far more often it kills you or turns you into a damned creature. Yuta has lived 500 years since he took that gamble, and these episodic stories follow him and Mana, a young woman about to be sacrificed when he meets her, through people desperate for the same prize. It is folk horror with a sad, romantic center and some memorable grotesques, better for a reader who wants melancholy than shocks. Viz's two-volume Collector's Edition holds the whole thing.