History Manga / Bibliomania

Serialized from September 5 2016 to April 16 2018, ''Bibliomania'' is a 12-chapter-long Psychological Horror manga written by Orval (Oobaru) and illustrated by Macchiro. A post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy take on the classic tale of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' whose main themes involve discussions of desire and choosing to live in denial of the real world and stay within a fantasy world crafted by oneself. Unlike what one would expect from most other manga, ''Bibliomania'' is read in Western order, from left to right.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Thanks to magical biblioclastic rounds, the Book of Truth ended up being sealed within a coffin for several centuries, bring the first Biblioclastic War to an end. Then, 1,786 months (approximately 148 years) and 24 days after that, the Book somehow managed to escape its seal, kickstarting the second Biblioclastic War, [[ApocalypseHow which the book had won]].]]

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Thanks to magical biblioclastic rounds, the Book of Truth ended up being sealed within a coffin for several centuries, bring the first Biblioclastic War to an end. Then, 1,786 months (148 years) and 24 days after that, the Book somehow managed to escape its seal, kickstarting the second Biblioclastic War, [[ApocalypseHow which the book had won]].]]

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Thanks to magical biblioclastic rounds, the Book of Truth ended up being sealed within a coffin for several centuries, bring the first Biblioclastic War to an end. Then, 1,786 (148 years) and 24 days after that, the Book somehow managed to escape its seal, kickstarting the second Biblioclastic War, [[ApocalypseHow which the book had won]].]]

** The fact that Alice is not a normal girl, but up to something shady is foreshadowed when a chapter ends with a shot of her bedroom [[spoiler:where people are tied up and asking for help.]]
** The shot of Alice's room has a hole in the roof that serves as illumination to the bed she was in. [[spoiler:Said hole turns out to be the hole made in the coffin on the very first chapter. A view of this hole even appear in the first page of this manga, hinting that she was inside the coffin all along.]]

* RedHerring: The manga starts with what seems to be the Serpent breaking out of the "coffin" and destroying the world, as we see a boy looking at the monster and thinking it's a snake. [[spoiler:The Serpent is actually still sealed by that time. Alice was the one that broke out, and as the original book, she also has a slightly serpentine form.]]

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Alice was once a princess who was unable to experience the outside world due to being bedridden with an unspecified illness that had debilitated her since birth. Her obsessive interest in literature and acquiring knowledge had come from a desire to experience the world that her sickness had cut off from her.]]

Created on September 5 2016 and ending on April 16 2018, Bibliomania is a 12-chapter-long Psychological Horror manga written by Orval (Oobaru) and illustrated by Macchiro. A post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy take on the classic tale of Literature/{{Alice in Wonderland}} whose main themes involve discussions of desire and choosing to live in denial of the real world and stay within a fantasy world crafted by oneself. Unlike what one would expect from most other manga, Bibliomania is read in Western order, from left to right.

!!Bibliomania contains the following tropes:

* BarbieDollAnatomy: The Bog Woman is completely nude, but she's drawn with no nipples/genitalia.
* BigEater: In the first chapter, Alice completely eats through several strawberry cakes that are much larger than she is.
* BlindingBangs: Alice gains these when [[spoiler: she assumes the form of the Book of Truth.]]

* SkullForAHead: A while after Alice encounters her, the Bog Woman's face completely decays, showing her head as a floating skull missing a lower jaw.

Created on September 5 2016 and ending on April 16 2018, Bibliomania is a 12-chapter-long Psychological Horror manga written by Oobaru and illustrated by Macchiro. A post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy take on the classic tale of Literature/{{Alice in Wonderland}} whose main themes involve discussions of desire and choosing to live in denial of the real world and stay within a fantasy world crafted by oneself. Unlike what one would expect from most other manga, Bibliomania is read in Western order, from left to right.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Thanks to magical biblioclastic rounds, the Book of Truth ended up being sealed within a coffin for several centuries, bring the first Biblioclastic War to an end. Then, 1,786 (148 years) and 24 days after that, the Book somehow managed to escape its seal, kickstarting the second Biblioclastic War, [[ApocalypseHow which the book had won]].]]