Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara".
Based the homonymous manga by Osamu Tezuka's, which was inspired by Jacques Offenbach's opera, "The Tales of Hoffman", "Barbara" is a very strange but