Barbara Ikai

Barbara Ikai (バルバラ異界) is a science fiction manga by Moto Hagio. It is set in a near-future Japan, and begins with a girl, Jyujo Aoba, who has been in a coma since she was nine years old, who was discovered next to her parents' bodies, with their hearts inside her stomach. Barbara Ikai was serialised in Shinshokan's Flowers between September 2002 and August 2005 and is collected in 4 volumes. Barbara Ikai won the 2006 Nihon SF Taisho Award, and is the first manga that has won this award. It is published in Traditional Chinese by Sharp Point Press.

Development
Hagio "wanted to do something about meat" when she created the story for Barbara Ikai, and felt that the story "turned out kind of gross".