This short series features mysterious incidents that Kensaku Daigo, a talented insect collector, encounters in connection with insects.
1979/04/08,1979/05/27 Published in Shukan Shonen Magazine
001 The Insecter
1979/04/08 Shukan Shonen Magazine
Kensaku Daigo, a talented insect collector, is astonished to see a piece of the cocoon left behind by the missing son of the chairman of Blood Arrow Oil Company. The cocoon is estimated to have a diameter of over 120 cm. Soon, Daigo sets off for the heart of New Guinea in search of the missing son.
002 The Way of the Butterly Smells of Death
1979/05/27 Shukan Shonen Magazine
One day, Spanish police ask Daigo for assistance. They inform him that a deadly poisonous butterfly has killed an entomologist, and 3,000 of its pupae are missing. As the investigation unfolds, the true nature of the butterfly is revealed: it was engineered as a weapon of revenge against the Spanish people by a man who harbors hatred towards them.