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Homunculus Omnibus #2
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 3-4
ENDLESS QUESTIONS
Nakoshi has had plenty of questions since getting involved with Ito’s experiment. But there is one thing in particular that’s been nagging at Why do only some of the people he looks at appear monstrous, while others seem normal? Before he can solve this riddle, he is confronted with a more pressing concern. His own left arm now looks robotic!
From the creator of Ichi the Killer and Voyeur , the hit supernatural horror tale that inspired a live-action film on Netflix.
Nakoshi has had plenty of questions since getting involved with Ito’s experiment. But there is one thing in particular that’s been nagging at Why do only some of the people he looks at appear monstrous, while others seem normal? Before he can solve this riddle, he is confronted with a more pressing concern. His own left arm now looks robotic!
From the creator of Ichi the Killer and Voyeur , the hit supernatural horror tale that inspired a live-action film on Netflix.
664 pages, Paperback
First published June 13, 2015
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About the author
Hideo Yamamoto
174 books249 followers 山本英夫 Yamamoto Hideo , is a Japanese manga artist best known for the manga series "Ichi the Killer" (which was adapted into a live-action film in 2001) and the series, Homunculus (manga).
Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and psychology.
Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and psychology.
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January 30, 2024
OMG! A book that advocates for the healing power of rape. Graphically.
And embellishes the pages with so much semen and blood, and does such gross stuff with those body fluids. Ewwwwww.
I'm going to hate-read the next volume since I have it on hand from the library.
And embellishes the pages with so much semen and blood, and does such gross stuff with those body fluids. Ewwwwww.
I'm going to hate-read the next volume since I have it on hand from the library.
January 9, 2024
The story has a really cool idea with a good start in the first 1.5 volumes and decided to drown it in misogyny and rape.
February 20, 2024
will not be continuing this series. I was hoping for some psychological horror but bamboozled by pages and pages of extremely graphic assault- and also semen??? Literally WHAT IS THIS?!?! I normally love dark stuff but this just took it way too far- do not recommend this series
October 2, 2023
Disgusting and disturbing. Everything that happened in volume 3 and half of 4 was completely pointless. I’m dropping this series. It’s not for me.
January 21, 2024
The psychological horror behind it was very interesting. Such a shame it turned into a truly perverted and unnecessary thing. Seriously, what does Japan have with sex offenders? It seems like every media has some element of sexual harassment. From girls yelling stop while meaning to keep going, to so many perverted things in the name of fanservice. I still have one more volume, though I might drop the series. Such a shame, it was a genuinely interesting concept.
August 20, 2024
this shit was abhorrent for literally no reason at all I’m going to pray this was just a really weird one-off
March 17, 2024
I should've read Goodreads reviews before picking this volume up... The healing power of r*pe? And it's graphic and it's close to 50% of the page count? Nope.
Volume 1-2 was promising, but this one ruined it for me. Dropping this series.
Volume 1-2 was promising, but this one ruined it for me. Dropping this series.
May 14, 2024
I'm so unsure how to feel about these two volumes, omnibus one was so solid and intriguing. This edition was just full of confusion and semen.
June 8, 2024
i’m pretending this volume doesn’t exist
April 30, 2024
Disturbingly very graphic.
But so very different from anything I've read in a while.
The first time I read LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN...I felt like this
Very uncomfortable to read.
But so very different from anything I've read in a while.
The first time I read LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN...I felt like this
Very uncomfortable to read.
May 21, 2024
Ick 🤮. I have the next omnibus volumes from the library. Let’s hope it gets off this trajectory and back onto something more psychologically interesting/mysterious. I personally did not enjoy this one. That being said, it did prove without a shadow of a doubt that the main character is extremely morally depraved. It gives the reader background of his work history that is cold/callous as well as his poor personal relationships with women. This helps bring us some type of perspective as to why he is seeing things the way he currently does beyond the excuse of simply having the sketchy medical procedure. He has underlying issues without a doubt. This is less about other people and more about him. Amidst all my disgust the one point of interest to me in this omnibus is that he is so completely convoluted that he believes that by actively traumatizing others he is healing them of their homunculus. Phew 😮💨 this character is a real piece of work!
October 19, 2023
YEAH NAH I DON’T KNOW MAN
October 4, 2024
Homunculus (Omnibus), Vol. 3-4 (My Kindle Review)
Vol. 3 - Ito’s rendezvous with emotionless sand being Yukari takes an icy detour and now Nakoshi has to deal with her himself. We also get to see her controlling family that she deals with and that he might have his own inner demons. As their unexpected interactions continue, it slowly becomes a bit uncomfortable and suggestively dark as Yukari’s manipulative demeanor will test Nakoshi’s sanity as he sees she’s more than sand. B (75%/Good)
Vol. 4 - The ongoing interactions with Nakoshi and Yukari continue to get very unraveling, but really uncomfortable as his methods to open her up show us a very dark side of him morally and unhinged. He does end up opening her human side, but it does conclude her story quietly bleak with some unanswered questions. As for him, Nakoshi makes drastic changes in his life while we get to see his past before his homeless life as a manipulative insurance salesman. An interesting surprise find for the volume’s cliffhanger. B- (67%/Decent)
B (71%/Good)
Vol. 3 - Ito’s rendezvous with emotionless sand being Yukari takes an icy detour and now Nakoshi has to deal with her himself. We also get to see her controlling family that she deals with and that he might have his own inner demons. As their unexpected interactions continue, it slowly becomes a bit uncomfortable and suggestively dark as Yukari’s manipulative demeanor will test Nakoshi’s sanity as he sees she’s more than sand. B (75%/Good)
Vol. 4 - The ongoing interactions with Nakoshi and Yukari continue to get very unraveling, but really uncomfortable as his methods to open her up show us a very dark side of him morally and unhinged. He does end up opening her human side, but it does conclude her story quietly bleak with some unanswered questions. As for him, Nakoshi makes drastic changes in his life while we get to see his past before his homeless life as a manipulative insurance salesman. An interesting surprise find for the volume’s cliffhanger. B- (67%/Decent)
B (71%/Good)
October 8, 2025
2.2 (biblio)
May 11, 2025
I’m writing this because of the sheer number of comments I’ve read on the subject (replying to everyone would be difficult). To all those scandalized by the rape and semen: have you ever heard of psychological horror? This manga is made to provoke disgust, disapproval, but also to take you on a psychological journey through the eyes of someone who is completely mentally ill.
If you’re into psychology and psychological horror, this manga is incredible. In my opinion, the mangaka not only has a great drawing style, but also narrates the story of a full-blown narcissist and mentally ill person in an outstanding way. For those who are disturbed by this, psychological horror probably isn’t for you. This manga does not glorify or justify rape if only you had read it with the right attention.
-from someone who has finished the manga completely, loved it and understood it.
If you’re into psychology and psychological horror, this manga is incredible. In my opinion, the mangaka not only has a great drawing style, but also narrates the story of a full-blown narcissist and mentally ill person in an outstanding way. For those who are disturbed by this, psychological horror probably isn’t for you. This manga does not glorify or justify rape if only you had read it with the right attention.
-from someone who has finished the manga completely, loved it and understood it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 9, 2024
Why do libraries not # their orders. I got 3-4 instead of 1-2 so going in blind. 😭 Beautiful art though, cat-like faces and metaphorical personification (like crumbling to mummified mush when nervous, Achilles heel being a point of weakness, ideas transferring through touch like male and female tech ports, showing blood moons or primordial pools in other senses). TyqFashion and dialogue a bit Matrixy. After all, the “people” can see patterns and numbers and grids and monsters behind people. I don’t mind the emo or seedy melodrama, because you’d feel like you’re on psychedelics in their place.
December 17, 2024
Contains a plot point that almost makes this series unreadable, almost made me want to put it down and never ever read it again... I would not recommend it for that reason.. genuinely disgusting and makes no sense at all. Plus many other gross smaller plot points that would make 99% of people uncomfortable, I would not recommend this.
September 29, 2024
The car guy is a former actuary with a penchant for facials, flashy cars and gifts. The symbol girl (who is 17) scared off the doctor who performed the trepanation - car guy tries to parse through her symbols by molesting her. Really weird, really graphic.
December 16, 2024
It was interesting in a way but also very fixated on one particular thing in volume 3. Not the best, certainly not as good as 1 and 2 but volume 4 kind of kept me interested. The art is what keeps me interested, but the story is not bad. Once I read the next omnibus, it will really set the tone if I want to continue the series.
February 9, 2025
I hope the next volumes don’t repeat any of this or I’ll call it quits. The first volumes were intriguing, but this was terrible.
October 7, 2025
I was going into Volumes 3-4 optimistic after the first Omnibus really piqued my interest with some interesting ideas and really intriguing art style. I had no idea where this series was headed, so I decided to see where it went.
TW: SA, Rape (perpetrated by an adult against a minor), Blood/Bodily Fluids.
I did not enjoy Volumes 3 & 4 nearly as much as I had hoped to. There is an arc in this book that spans for close to half the length of the book give or take. roughly an entire volumes worth of this book is entirely focused on one encounter between our main character and a young woman, in which he sexually assaults and then rapes her.
It is difficult for me to find a reason why this was even needed in the first place, to justify such a large portion of the story being that encounter. It explores a bit deeper into what we have already started learning about how the homonculi are actually reflections and therefore monsters of your own self/faults. But there was no reason that such a graphic plot point needed to be the way that we continued to explore those ideas. I’ve read plenty of traditional novels and manga containing SA or rape in the plot, and I very rarely find that it’s necessary or was the best way for the author to tell the story they wanted to tell. There are exceptions of course, I’ll be unoriginal and lean back on the tried and true example of Berserk. In that story those plot points are not only integral to the story being told and are used to characterize and humanize the characters we are following, but they’re also handled with so much more brevity, they aren’t dragged out extensively or overly graphic, they are just as graphic as they need to be for us to understand.
My problem with how this volume of Homunculus treats those same issues is the way it’s incredibly drawn out, unnecessarily graphic and disturbing, and seemingly purposefully to make the readers as uncomfortable as possible.
Once that plot point finally ended, I enjoyed the short rest of the story we get at the end of volume 4, and i still felt somewhat compelled to know what happens next. I’m going to read Volumes 5-6, and if they don’t really bring it back to what made the first two interesting or continue to dive into the unnecessarily graphic for the sake of being graphic plot points, i’m dropping the series at that point.
TW: SA, Rape (perpetrated by an adult against a minor), Blood/Bodily Fluids.
I did not enjoy Volumes 3 & 4 nearly as much as I had hoped to. There is an arc in this book that spans for close to half the length of the book give or take. roughly an entire volumes worth of this book is entirely focused on one encounter between our main character and a young woman, in which he sexually assaults and then rapes her.
It is difficult for me to find a reason why this was even needed in the first place, to justify such a large portion of the story being that encounter. It explores a bit deeper into what we have already started learning about how the homonculi are actually reflections and therefore monsters of your own self/faults. But there was no reason that such a graphic plot point needed to be the way that we continued to explore those ideas. I’ve read plenty of traditional novels and manga containing SA or rape in the plot, and I very rarely find that it’s necessary or was the best way for the author to tell the story they wanted to tell. There are exceptions of course, I’ll be unoriginal and lean back on the tried and true example of Berserk. In that story those plot points are not only integral to the story being told and are used to characterize and humanize the characters we are following, but they’re also handled with so much more brevity, they aren’t dragged out extensively or overly graphic, they are just as graphic as they need to be for us to understand.
My problem with how this volume of Homunculus treats those same issues is the way it’s incredibly drawn out, unnecessarily graphic and disturbing, and seemingly purposefully to make the readers as uncomfortable as possible.
Once that plot point finally ended, I enjoyed the short rest of the story we get at the end of volume 4, and i still felt somewhat compelled to know what happens next. I’m going to read Volumes 5-6, and if they don’t really bring it back to what made the first two interesting or continue to dive into the unnecessarily graphic for the sake of being graphic plot points, i’m dropping the series at that point.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 11, 2025
I can understand why people would stop reading homunculus here and thats totally valid, but the book IS NOT glorifying rape. What nakoshi did is extremely wrong and your NOT supposed to blindly support him.
Now I want to say, these volumes were a bit worse than the first 2, but i feel like these were meant to be like building blocks for whats about to happen next and to get a better introspective view on who nakoshi is.
Nakoshi has the ability to see how people truly are, there symbols, but Nakoshi is deeply disturbed by this and is confused on who HE is, making it so seeing these symbols isnt that great of a power cuz he doesnt understand himself.
The manga is also trying to show the fakeness of society, how we put on masks and that we dont desire true human connection but what benefits us from being with that person. We can see this with yukari but she isnt necessarily selfish. All she wants is her dream of true love, she wants this because she hates the fakeness of all her connections, her mom constantly trying to make her perfect, and people always using her for her body. This is why when nakoshi learns that she has hope, hes jealous? angry? but he wants to destroy that dream because it didnt work out for him, ( we all know how he does it )
which is completely sadistic of him. Nakoshi is a sadistic narcissistic person who doesnt even understand himself.
Nakoshi is starting to uncover some of his past memories, i think he became homeless because of the fakeness of people right? but hes also still very sadistic and selfish.
A question the manga is asking is even though nakoshi can see their symbols is that all a person is? Is just there repressed emotions? I think not because there is obviously more to humans than just their darkest most repressed emotions.
anyways theres probably a few more things i could talk about but im probably forgetting them, i think ive covered everything though. yah
Now I want to say, these volumes were a bit worse than the first 2, but i feel like these were meant to be like building blocks for whats about to happen next and to get a better introspective view on who nakoshi is.
Nakoshi has the ability to see how people truly are, there symbols, but Nakoshi is deeply disturbed by this and is confused on who HE is, making it so seeing these symbols isnt that great of a power cuz he doesnt understand himself.
The manga is also trying to show the fakeness of society, how we put on masks and that we dont desire true human connection but what benefits us from being with that person. We can see this with yukari but she isnt necessarily selfish. All she wants is her dream of true love, she wants this because she hates the fakeness of all her connections, her mom constantly trying to make her perfect, and people always using her for her body. This is why when nakoshi learns that she has hope, hes jealous? angry? but he wants to destroy that dream because it didnt work out for him, ( we all know how he does it )
which is completely sadistic of him. Nakoshi is a sadistic narcissistic person who doesnt even understand himself.
Nakoshi is starting to uncover some of his past memories, i think he became homeless because of the fakeness of people right? but hes also still very sadistic and selfish.
A question the manga is asking is even though nakoshi can see their symbols is that all a person is? Is just there repressed emotions? I think not because there is obviously more to humans than just their darkest most repressed emotions.
anyways theres probably a few more things i could talk about but im probably forgetting them, i think ive covered everything though. yah
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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April 25, 2024TW: Sexual Assualt
Spoiler filled below:
This series can be graphic and follows morally shady characters. I think it also depicted things in a harmful way that justified abhorrent behaviour.
Yukari is depicted as this teenage girl who doesn't know herself. She conforms to other people, and Ito takes advantage of her vulnerability. Nakoshi also takes advantage of her. Having 'fixed' people's issues before, he is compelled to doing the same to this girl. He acts in a forceful obsessive manner. He is ticked off by her wanting to become 'one' with someone. He ends up TW: In my notes I wrote that her homunculus is kinda teasing him. Because he has this supernatural vision, the reader is supposed to take that to mean that shows her inner 'reality'.
After this incident she becomes ‘normal’. I think that perhaps the message is that she was able to let go of the silly dream she had of becoming ONE with someone. Maybe through this experience she was able to ground herself in reality and let go of her prior expectations. I think that is harmful. Because no way in hell would THAT result in that.
When they are parting she seems to look at him appreciatively or at least playfully. It is a dangerous concept because the moral of the story is it was for her own good. She was asking for it. And she is better for it.
To imply she was fixed of her silly ideas by being assaulted is inhumane. It says that: it's okay to take away your agency if it's for your own good. I know what you need better than you.
Now Nakoshi isn't portrayed as a stand up guy. He's unhinged and repulsive, but in this moment and others he is fighting against the 'bad'. This scene doesn't condemn his bad behaviour. He gets away with it and is portrayed as having helped her.
Spoiler filled below:
This series can be graphic and follows morally shady characters. I think it also depicted things in a harmful way that justified abhorrent behaviour.
Yukari is depicted as this teenage girl who doesn't know herself. She conforms to other people, and Ito takes advantage of her vulnerability. Nakoshi also takes advantage of her. Having 'fixed' people's issues before, he is compelled to doing the same to this girl. He acts in a forceful obsessive manner. He is ticked off by her wanting to become 'one' with someone. He ends up TW: In my notes I wrote that her homunculus is kinda teasing him. Because he has this supernatural vision, the reader is supposed to take that to mean that shows her inner 'reality'.
After this incident she becomes ‘normal’. I think that perhaps the message is that she was able to let go of the silly dream she had of becoming ONE with someone. Maybe through this experience she was able to ground herself in reality and let go of her prior expectations. I think that is harmful. Because no way in hell would THAT result in that.
When they are parting she seems to look at him appreciatively or at least playfully. It is a dangerous concept because the moral of the story is it was for her own good. She was asking for it. And she is better for it.
To imply she was fixed of her silly ideas by being assaulted is inhumane. It says that: it's okay to take away your agency if it's for your own good. I know what you need better than you.
Now Nakoshi isn't portrayed as a stand up guy. He's unhinged and repulsive, but in this moment and others he is fighting against the 'bad'. This scene doesn't condemn his bad behaviour. He gets away with it and is portrayed as having helped her.
February 13, 2024
Rating: 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars.
I loved the first omnibus and gave it 5 stars. This second omnibus is a bit more complicated with plenty to like but even more to dislike - enough to make many readers (including my friend I'm reading it with) give up on this series. The creepiness hinted at in the first volume is amped up to 11 in this one.
There is a sexual assault and rape of a 17-year old high school girl by our protagonist, Nakoshi, who is twice her age. It's unpleasant to read and goes on way too long and is confusing throughout. There's blood, semen, sucking on open wounds - lots of repulsive stuff here. I wasn't always sure what was happening in Nakoshi's head - I assumed he had gone insane from the procedure. I wasn't sure what the point was or his motivations, but I guess I have to keep reading to find out.
When he revisits his corporate job and the homeless camp across the street, it gets interesting. The book takes a more philosophical turn and explores interesting ideas like what it means to be human and how we look down on others and how sometimes life takes us to unexpected places.
We get flashbacks of his corporate life and learn he was always kind of a scumbag. I found this interesting and insightful. I mean, I'm not opposed to scumbag protagonists - hell, Lolita is on my TBR.
While the book is difficult and unpleasant, it's never boring or predictable. I have many questions and am intrigued enough that I will continue reading the series. I just wonder if the payoff will be worth it.
I loved the first omnibus and gave it 5 stars. This second omnibus is a bit more complicated with plenty to like but even more to dislike - enough to make many readers (including my friend I'm reading it with) give up on this series. The creepiness hinted at in the first volume is amped up to 11 in this one.
There is a sexual assault and rape of a 17-year old high school girl by our protagonist, Nakoshi, who is twice her age. It's unpleasant to read and goes on way too long and is confusing throughout. There's blood, semen, sucking on open wounds - lots of repulsive stuff here. I wasn't always sure what was happening in Nakoshi's head - I assumed he had gone insane from the procedure. I wasn't sure what the point was or his motivations, but I guess I have to keep reading to find out.
When he revisits his corporate job and the homeless camp across the street, it gets interesting. The book takes a more philosophical turn and explores interesting ideas like what it means to be human and how we look down on others and how sometimes life takes us to unexpected places.
We get flashbacks of his corporate life and learn he was always kind of a scumbag. I found this interesting and insightful. I mean, I'm not opposed to scumbag protagonists - hell, Lolita is on my TBR.
While the book is difficult and unpleasant, it's never boring or predictable. I have many questions and am intrigued enough that I will continue reading the series. I just wonder if the payoff will be worth it.
May 21, 2025
This feels like a movie with 25 extra characters in it who aren't just there to make the world seem full, but who have dialog and do things that make you think, "Okay, this person is important, better remember them!" and then they walk off and never return, so the whole time you have no idea what you're supposed to be paying attention to, what's narratively significant.
Not literally, there are only like 3 or 4 characters in it, but you know what I mean? There are all these weird visuals and events, and I don't know which (if any) hold any meaning or are worth thinking about. Really not much fun to read.
Also, there's some sezual assalt, let's spell it that way, and...
Well, I don't know. It didn't bother me, to be honest, because I wasn't even sure if it was really happening or not or if it was supposed to happen or was part of some weird ritual or...I didn't really know what was going on. I didn't understand which things were happening, what the two different characters were perceiving. I didn't get it.
I think that might be why so many people have such a strong reaction to it in this particular book: It's not really comprehensible, so it feels superfluous, and if you're going to have some lady get assaulted that way in a story, there should probably be a compelling reason.
And maybe there IS a compelling reason, but I couldn't comprehend it, so it does feel like, I don't know, unnecessarily unpleasant? Which is how I'm described at dinners.
Not literally, there are only like 3 or 4 characters in it, but you know what I mean? There are all these weird visuals and events, and I don't know which (if any) hold any meaning or are worth thinking about. Really not much fun to read.
Also, there's some sezual assalt, let's spell it that way, and...
Well, I don't know. It didn't bother me, to be honest, because I wasn't even sure if it was really happening or not or if it was supposed to happen or was part of some weird ritual or...I didn't really know what was going on. I didn't understand which things were happening, what the two different characters were perceiving. I didn't get it.
I think that might be why so many people have such a strong reaction to it in this particular book: It's not really comprehensible, so it feels superfluous, and if you're going to have some lady get assaulted that way in a story, there should probably be a compelling reason.
And maybe there IS a compelling reason, but I couldn't comprehend it, so it does feel like, I don't know, unnecessarily unpleasant? Which is how I'm described at dinners.
October 7, 2024
Shame.
I was in love with the first volume.
I see what this book was trying to do.
That said, it absolutely did not go about achieving it the right way.
There was absolutely no reason it needed to resort to that when a million other, very similar scenes could have achieved the same narrative propose.
I don’t care how interesting the theme is- it doesn’t justify TW
The worst part is it expects us to sympathy- pride, even- for Nakoshi. I liked him in the first installment- now I couldn’t care less about him.
There is a difference between depicting something in a piece of media and glorifying that something.
If the scene had to be as it was, at the very least the tone could have been changed to avoid the latter. It would have been uncomfortable then, but not disgusting.
What we got was disgusting.
I have the next volume, so I’m going to give it a chance, but it is in thin ice.
I was in love with the first volume.
I see what this book was trying to do.
That said, it absolutely did not go about achieving it the right way.
There was absolutely no reason it needed to resort to that when a million other, very similar scenes could have achieved the same narrative propose.
I don’t care how interesting the theme is- it doesn’t justify TW
The worst part is it expects us to sympathy- pride, even- for Nakoshi. I liked him in the first installment- now I couldn’t care less about him.
There is a difference between depicting something in a piece of media and glorifying that something.
If the scene had to be as it was, at the very least the tone could have been changed to avoid the latter. It would have been uncomfortable then, but not disgusting.
What we got was disgusting.
I have the next volume, so I’m going to give it a chance, but it is in thin ice.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 11, 2024
This series has gone from dark to disturbed.
I wish there was more heads up on upsetting situations like what happened in this volume. (WARNING: misogyny, r*pe, self harm, and graphic imagery in this omnibus).
That being said, I'm impressed how well Hideo Yamamoto has created this world where just about everyone has revolting side/personality shown on full display. Honestly, I was simultaneously disgusted and upset by this volume, but also found being drawn into what will happen next with this series. I'm not too sure what to expect next, but I do know Hideo's other works have no issues with upsetting the reader with horrible and terrifying real-life scenarios.
Basically: I would NOT recommend this series to others unless they are fully aware that this one gets down-right nasty. It is very upsetting and has horrific imagery, and does not pull any punches in showing the dark side of the human mind and experience.
I wish there was more heads up on upsetting situations like what happened in this volume. (WARNING: misogyny, r*pe, self harm, and graphic imagery in this omnibus).
That being said, I'm impressed how well Hideo Yamamoto has created this world where just about everyone has revolting side/personality shown on full display. Honestly, I was simultaneously disgusted and upset by this volume, but also found being drawn into what will happen next with this series. I'm not too sure what to expect next, but I do know Hideo's other works have no issues with upsetting the reader with horrible and terrifying real-life scenarios.
Basically: I would NOT recommend this series to others unless they are fully aware that this one gets down-right nasty. It is very upsetting and has horrific imagery, and does not pull any punches in showing the dark side of the human mind and experience.
July 7, 2024
I love my son.
He liked this series/artist....
But the transitive property does not apply in this case.
The detailed artwork is the sole high point. A lengthy car-bound scene takes up the majority of this omnibus, hard not to take that as the author dwelling on whatever twisted thrill of statutory rape. Later in flashback mode are we supposed to connect capitalism to sexism/sexual assault? Or somehow scan past the pages and pages of yes/no/NO and see through to Mommy being somehow complicit.
Ugh.
If a reckoning is coming for Nako, like that scene it is surely taking its time. And as in volume 1, if the "power" our trepanator has is to absorb personality flaws (the sand leg now to match his robo-hand), it feels like a less interesting exercise in solipsism than anything else. The measure of a man, whether psycho-mystical or actuarial, tends to leave a lot out.
He liked this series/artist....
But the transitive property does not apply in this case.
The detailed artwork is the sole high point. A lengthy car-bound scene takes up the majority of this omnibus, hard not to take that as the author dwelling on whatever twisted thrill of statutory rape. Later in flashback mode are we supposed to connect capitalism to sexism/sexual assault? Or somehow scan past the pages and pages of yes/no/NO and see through to Mommy being somehow complicit.
Ugh.
If a reckoning is coming for Nako, like that scene it is surely taking its time. And as in volume 1, if the "power" our trepanator has is to absorb personality flaws (the sand leg now to match his robo-hand), it feels like a less interesting exercise in solipsism than anything else. The measure of a man, whether psycho-mystical or actuarial, tends to leave a lot out.
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