PURPLE BUNSHIN is a zine collection of Filipino poems by Marius Black, composed between 2019 and 2020. "Bunshin" is the Japanese word for a branch, clone, or alter ego. In this series of poems, Marius collects all the poetry he made for his wife, finding his other half, as well as their married life and having a son and being being a father and husband.

The zine’s other siblings are BLUE BUNSHIN‍ ‍& PINK BUNSHIN, which two other collections of poems in Filipino and English respectively which collects poetry he wrote from 2014-2015 about the women he went out with and courted or broke up with, or from past relationships or women who dumped him.

The two has 30 poems in each book, however they are not translations of each other but rather, 30 different poems written in the two languages.