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They say anyone who eats mermaid flesh gains immortality窶琶f they窶决e lucky. But, most people who eat mermaid flesh die or wander the earth forever as monsters.
Yuta is a young man who ate mermaid flesh and lived for 500 years without dying or growing older. What does he truly seek at the end of his travels? Mermaid Saga shows us the hearts of those who struggle in their search for a 窶彡ure窶 to death. A legend of mermaids for present times!
The first story, 窶廣 Mermaid Never Smiles窶 tells the tale of Yuta, a man on a relentless search for a mermaid, and his meeting with Mana, a girl with a mysterious past whom he encounters during his quest. 窶弋he Village of the Fighting Fish窶 takes place in the long ago past where Yuta and Rin deal with the pirates of Sakagami island. Then in part 1 of 窶弋he Mermaid Forest,窶 Yuta and Mana become separated during their travels and come across the inhabitants of a forest who crave mermaid flesh.
窶弋he Mermaid Forest, Part 2窶 concludes the story begun in Volume 1. In 窶廛ream窶冱 End窶 while traveling in the mountains, Yuta and Mana are caught in a landslide. Discovered by a local hunter, the immortal Yuta awakens in the middle of a service for the dead. Yuta asks about Mana窶冱 whereabouts and the hunter tells him that Mana is no longer alive, and about a monster that lives in the mountains. In the last story in this volume, 窶廴ermaid窶冱 Promise窶, a woman Yuta had feelings for 60 years ago who he thought was dead turns up alive. What窶冱 the connection between her, the mermaid窶冱 ashes, and her fiancﾃｩ?
In 窶廴ermaid窶冱 Scar,窶 Yuta and Mana meet a young boy who is traveling alone looking for his mother. They run into the boy again a few years later and learn about his terrible secret. 窶弋he Ash Princess窶 takes place 120 years after Yuta first ate the flesh of a mermaid. While searching for the mermaid flesh that will restore his body to its normal condition, he encounters an old man and his daughter, Natsume. The old man is the proprietor of a traveling sideshow that claims to sell mermaid flesh. The mermaid flesh is fake but somehow Natsume has the same healing powers as Yuta.
In 窶廴ermaid窶冱 Gaze窶 Yuta hears about a ghost that has appeared in the mansion where he used to live and goes with Mana to investigate. There they meet a man who looks like Shingo, who died in a double suicide with his older sister years ago. The final story, 窶廴ermaid窶冱 Mask窶 takes place in a seaside town where Yuta and Mana meet a boy whose wounds heal instantly when he takes a powdered medicine.
