A collection of short stories about the desperate lives of men and women who are stuck at the bottom. 

The story follows “Wandering Wolf”, it puts two men under the same awning as they wait for a storm to pass. They meet as strangers, only for the younger of the pair—a criminal on the run—to realize that the other one is “Kamikaze Sabu,” a brawler he admired in his youth.
 
(Source: The Comics Journal)
 
Note: the first chapter was published in the June 1976 issue of Yagyo. The second chapter was published in the September 1976 issue of Garo.

A mysterious wandering gambler with distant eyes suddenly appears in town and confounds the local hoodlums. 

A student pontificates on his life within the grand design which leads him to some murky roads.

An ex-kamikaze pilot remembers his days as a World War II pilot.
 
(Source: Vice)

A story of two men sharing stories of Sabu, a local tough guy and kamikaze trainee who survived the war. The conversation leads to the older man remarking that, “After the war was over... We were all still hurting. None of our wounds had healed yet.” 
 
(Source: The Comics Journal)

The story of an average businessman with subtle hints of his time in the military and WW2. 

The story of a gangster in search of a woman named Shadow. He meets a mysterious and anthropomorphic mutt along the way who turns out to be more than meets the eye.

A group of men wait outside a blood bank exchanging stories while waiting to sell their blood so they can eat for the day.

This comic depicts a kind of piecemeal post-war commune, one that hosts drifters, con men, and other lost souls. Its inhabitants live in makeshift huts on a grassy plain that was once a military site, bombed and destroyed by US pilots.
 
(Source: The Comics Journal)

Madness prevails in this hardboiled noir story set in the proletariat bars and living areas of Tokyo.
 
(Source: Black Hook Press)

Crawling on the street and hitting each other.

1. 無頼の街 残菊編 (Burai no Machi: Zangiku-hen); Garo June 1971 
2. 無頼の街 寒菊編 (Burai no Machi: Kangiku-hen); Garo August 1971

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