殺殺草子 : 大江戶無残十三苦 [Korokoro sōshi: ōedo muzan jūsanku]

Korokoro Soushi, Carnets de massacre #2

by Shintaro Kago, Shintaro Kago

This is a guro book featuring lots of violence and gore, including some cannibalism. It’s not really hentai, but it does have some sex thrown in here and there, mostly rape. It’s set in feudal japan and its central character is an insane sadistic princess with a elite unit of special “hair” ninjas. She gets reckless and draws the attention of the Shogun which leads to a huge clash. Fun book with some grim humor, very graphic and has some disgusting stuff so not for the feint of heart. Some of the contents include torture, lobotomies, cannibalism, warfare, ninja combat, and a “Hell” amusement park. Featuring guest appearances by Jesus, and a clan of ninja descended from Moses!

13 short tales located in ancient Edo.

1. Iwa to Iemon (Iwa and Iemon)
2. Curse of the Sparrow With its Tongue Cut Out
3. Soubei's Garakapon
4. The Secret of Mutsuma Shikitei
5. Ruthless Sewing
6. Dreadful Patchwork Hell
7. The Biggest Invasion in History
8. A New Dawn
9. Old Man Gegetto and Hinnochio
10. Iemon-sama's Cruelty
11. Kansai's Jurnal
12. How He Dealt With the Problem of the Old Man
13. The Nature of Trendy Fashion

Genres: Manga, Comics, Horror, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2010

About the author

Kago Shintarō ( 駕籠真太郎) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. Kano was born in Tokyo in 1969. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX. Since then his comics, usually short stories, have been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity around the world.
Kago specialises in ero-guro, a Japanese visual genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and grotesque body horror. Many of Kago's manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. His unique style has been called "fashionable paranoia".

Reviews

[Susanna Neri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sesso, maledizioni, orrore e morte. Inquietante

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mentioned this before, but will repeat my disclaimer: I am uncomfortable with Kago's more extreme work, and have struggled with exposing myself to it for the sake of the less severe elements (and typically wonderfully creative, satirical, and playful) in his stories. Kago makes it clear in numerous interviews that his work is indeed satire; where the reader draws the line or how they interpret his work is up to them. I personally believe that there is a line, especially where violence towards women is concerned, and there is a fair amount of that in Kago's books. Satire's power is in its ability to exaggerate cultural inconsistencies/injustices in an effort (intentional or otherwise? Is intent implicit in the definition of satire?) to create an awareness in participators in such injustices that they have been desensitized to lesser forms of it that have been accepted as norms in said culture. I'm sure there's a better way to express that, but I shall press on. It's possible that he is reflecting cultural attitudes; I don't feel I'm in a position to judge that. To the degree that my own observations count, however, I feel uncomfortable as to where Kago has drawn the line. I think I could change my perspective were I to have insight into the degree to which his extremism is effective insofar as it increases awareness of the issue in his readers, but that can be hard to know.
As for this book in particular, I enjoyed that it was set in the Edo period and that the vignettes and characters ended up being interconnected to each other. The segment with the holes and patches and all that was particularly crazy. I'll likely be taking a break from Kago for a bit, though. I have one more book to review, but I read that before this, in case anyone's paying attention.

[Victor Ward]

Ce livre a souillé mon âme de toutes les façons possible.

[21stpear · Rating 2 out of 5]

比上一部殺殺草紙還無聊…沿用了很多密集恐懼的東西，感覺老師還是繼續搞空間設計更有意思。（但好像確實有點喜劇細胞，有些地方沒噁心到但笑出來了

[André Sousa · Rating 3 out of 5]

5/10
A.K.A. = The 13 Cruel Sufferings of the Great Edo

[Variaciones Enrojo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reseña de Jeparla para El Bloc:
http://jeparla.blogspot.com.ar/2013/0...

Cuadernos de masacres: Porque en el antiguo Japón también había sangre

Parece que EDT quiere demostrar que Kago, dentro de su género, es un autor bastante variado. Y es que este Cuaderno de Masacres es algo diferente al resto de sus obras que nos han llegado, no sólo por temática y ambientación, que nos situa en el antiguo Edo, si no que este cómic es una especie de obra coral en la que en los distintos capítulos van apareciendo personajes (con historias más o menos sangrientas) y poco a poco van reapareciendo junto a otros hasta llegar a los capítulos finales, que más que gore, rozan lo absurdo, y en los que todos los personajes intentan poner solución a un problema.

De todo lo publicado de Kago por EDT, creo que es lo más absurdo y quizá lo más "suave" (dentro de lo que cabe, que estamos hablando de un autor de gore). No se ha convertido en una obra imprescindible de este señor para mí, pero sí es cierto que me ha parecido la mar de entretenida y quizá accesible para todo el mundo dentro del género del gore.

Ojo, es un tomo más fino que los otros de este hombre, pero lo cierto es que con él tienes lectura para rato.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tres y medio. Promedio para abajo porque Reproducción por Mitosis me gustó y sorprendió más todavía, aunque se agradece que en este haya menos caca y gusanos que en aquel. Si en Reproducción Kago se divertía jugando con las viñetas, los ángulos, y todo lo que sea formas y formatos, en Cuadernos siempre la delira para el lado de la historia, los elementos fantásticos y un humor absurdo y muy pero muy efectivo. En algunos capítulos sentía que estaba leyendo Kohji Kumeta, en otras a Suehiro Maruo y en otros a Hirohiko Araki, pero en todo momento se siente bien fuerte la impronta de Kago.
¡A fanearse se ha dicho!

[La Revistería Comics · Rating 4 out of 5]

Más sangre y más personajes, aunque también menos experimentos narrativos y -afortunadamente- menos escatología en este nueva recopilación de desaforados relatos de Shintaro Kago.

[Ijuls]

Me encanta.