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MPD Psycho #5
MPD Psycho T05: Le détective schizophrène
Michel Partner, un ancien expert psychologue du FBI, est envoyé au Japon où il participe à une émission de télé en compagnie de l'inspecteur adjoint Sasayama. Les deux profileurs sont censés éclaircir une série de meurtres qui se sont produits dans une cité d'immeubles à présent désaffectés. Mais la situation prend un tour inattendu lorsque les membres de l'équipe de tournage disparaissent les uns après les autres et sont retrouvés assassinés dans d'atroces conditions. Sept tueurs à code barres, les "Lucy-7", sont mêlés à ces crimes et Michel Partner est en fait chargé de les éliminer...
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 11, 2000
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January 24, 2023
hysterically laughing since I missed half of what was being said. It's far too bizarre and twisted, yet it's intriguing.
July 19, 2018
this is way too twisted. bizarre.
November 1, 2023
not being able to remember names and faces and only able to afford one double-volume every two months is a very bad combination
May 30, 2020
More murders! More personalities! And an amazing personality trick...wow.
It really kicks off in an isolated location with a film crew and rival profilers.
Lots of spllllsssssshhhhh and splotccchhhh and arrrggghhhh sound effects. Heh.
It really kicks off in an isolated location with a film crew and rival profilers.
Lots of spllllsssssshhhhh and splotccchhhh and arrrggghhhh sound effects. Heh.
September 17, 2008
Good volume, action packed-- to say the least.
I loved this volume because it takes us right back into the mystery of the Lucy 7, and there’s plenty of violence in it that I adore. Also, Shinji Nishizono is BACK! And there’s more than one…there’s even more than one Amamiya…yes it gets complicated, but never crowded.
For the record, I’m willing to forgive the copious nudity of 'Mother' in the volume because I won’t kid myself into thinking this series is written with a female audience in mind…however – taking one your most intelligent female characters, criminologist Machi Isono, and having her wait for her ex naked in his hotel room in order to trade her ass for information? Shame on you Eiji Otsuka. Way to deconstruct an otherwise great character, in two pages. I swear, when it comes to strong female characters—Japanese writers take two steps back for each step forward. >_<
Spoilerish, just to show what characters are in this volume: It opens up ar the Tokagushi Shrine, where a news crew follows an inept profiler [everyone’s favorite cuckold Inspector Sasayama!] through some areas where a murder took place. He gets incredibly lucky [seriously, this man is not a profiler!] when he gets the girl showing them around, to confess to a murder…but then the newscast switches gears and starts talking about next week’s show—and the anticipated arrival of American FBI profile Michelle Partner [newsflash Otsuka-sensei…we don’t name our men Michelle, they may pull that shit in Canada, but not in the US of A]. Despite his name being far-fetched, he’s a creepy addition to the series; the media plans to take Partner and Sasayama into another crime scene area and have them both engage in a profiler duel.
Next we move to the lame intro of ‘Mother’; only worth reading because this lousy construct of a femme-dom character actual fits into the Lucy-7 plot. It seems that she [or her boss most likely] is responsible for ‘switching on’ the Lucy 7 [those kids with barcodes on their eyeballs.] Then we see Tetora Nishizono, the child version of the serial killer personality [Shinji Nishizono] that lives in Kazuhiko Amamiya. Confused…then you need to read volumes 1-4. ^_^
Anyway, Amamiya goes with Sasayama to the ‘duel’ and meets Michelle Partner. I won’t spoil the rest, but from here it gets very violent and interesting, as the plot unfolds. I can’t recommend this series enough if you’re into forensic horror and a conspiracy junkie.
I loved this volume because it takes us right back into the mystery of the Lucy 7, and there’s plenty of violence in it that I adore. Also, Shinji Nishizono is BACK! And there’s more than one…there’s even more than one Amamiya…yes it gets complicated, but never crowded.
For the record, I’m willing to forgive the copious nudity of 'Mother' in the volume because I won’t kid myself into thinking this series is written with a female audience in mind…however – taking one your most intelligent female characters, criminologist Machi Isono, and having her wait for her ex naked in his hotel room in order to trade her ass for information? Shame on you Eiji Otsuka. Way to deconstruct an otherwise great character, in two pages. I swear, when it comes to strong female characters—Japanese writers take two steps back for each step forward. >_<
Spoilerish, just to show what characters are in this volume: It opens up ar the Tokagushi Shrine, where a news crew follows an inept profiler [everyone’s favorite cuckold Inspector Sasayama!] through some areas where a murder took place. He gets incredibly lucky [seriously, this man is not a profiler!] when he gets the girl showing them around, to confess to a murder…but then the newscast switches gears and starts talking about next week’s show—and the anticipated arrival of American FBI profile Michelle Partner [newsflash Otsuka-sensei…we don’t name our men Michelle, they may pull that shit in Canada, but not in the US of A]. Despite his name being far-fetched, he’s a creepy addition to the series; the media plans to take Partner and Sasayama into another crime scene area and have them both engage in a profiler duel.
Next we move to the lame intro of ‘Mother’; only worth reading because this lousy construct of a femme-dom character actual fits into the Lucy-7 plot. It seems that she [or her boss most likely] is responsible for ‘switching on’ the Lucy 7 [those kids with barcodes on their eyeballs.] Then we see Tetora Nishizono, the child version of the serial killer personality [Shinji Nishizono] that lives in Kazuhiko Amamiya. Confused…then you need to read volumes 1-4. ^_^
Anyway, Amamiya goes with Sasayama to the ‘duel’ and meets Michelle Partner. I won’t spoil the rest, but from here it gets very violent and interesting, as the plot unfolds. I can’t recommend this series enough if you’re into forensic horror and a conspiracy junkie.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 5, 2008
I love these. I have no idea what's happening. I don't know who anyone is, mostly because several of the characters are more than one person, and there are more than one of some of the people they are. But whatever is going on is weird and twisted and bloody, with random gratuitous nudity. The art has that great "detached" manga feel, so no matter how much chaos spills out of the story, everything is viewed with the same patient attention to detail and almost clinical tone, which adds to the disturbing mood overall. Great stuff, definitely not for everyone.
September 28, 2017
OK i think I'm going to stop here, this series gets worse with each passing book
July 1, 2021
Keeps getting better. BIG YES FOR ME
January 22, 2022
There are literally only so many ways that one can show a person getting murdered before it all becomes dull.
May 30, 2012
Stuff I Read – MPD Psycho Vol 5 Review
So finally we managed to track down the missing volumes in this series. And it wasn’t an easy or altogether cheap process. Luckily we found a source that was selling volumes four through nine, and pounced on the opportunity to get them all, even if it took the investment of buying them all at once. Seeing as how volume five typically sells for something like twenty dollars and volume six for something like fifty dollars, we considered it well worth it. Sp th e reviews can continue. The last volume had set up the creation of miniature killers in the form of the Lucy 7. These children apparently also possess the same barcode eyeballs that the adult serial killer so far have had. And really this volume dealt mostly with resolving the plotline of the Lucy 7. It did this in typical fashion, or at least typical for this series. The bumbling police detective gets pulled into a profiling competition with an American named Partner, and the competition takes a turn when t he Lucy 7 show up and start murdering people.
The main story of this volume is fairly solid, and runs throughout the entire volume. It has room to breath, and resolves nicely. But there a few annoying things along the way. One of them is that the main female character, Machi, acts rather oddly in this volume, at first kind of whoring herself for a favor and then just sort of going along with everything. She is relegated to the background for most of this volume, and besides some random nudity doesn’t contribute. The dynamic between the multiple personality detective himself and the bumbling police detective is much more satisfying, as they navigate the dangerous game against the Lucy 7 and eventually Partner as well. Because, like everyone in this series, he turns out to be a psycho killer with a barcode eyeball as well. His mission is to kill the Lucy 7.
And that section of the volume is good. The Lucy 7, sure that they are the future and that they need to wipe out the old generation, are hunted down and murdered quite efficiently. The action and gore and all that is on par with everything else that we’ve seen in the series. It comes across as effectively creepy and intense. But the series gets a bit bogged down by a very convoluted storyline. New characters are always being added, and in this volume we see the return of a child killer who appeared in the story where Eyepatch Reporter man went psycho. He turns out to be another Nichizono, and possesses a unique eyeball mark that reads Lucy. So he at the very least is set up as different. Where the Lucy 7 turn out to be just drones, basically, one of any number of child killers that can be turned on, this Nichizono seems different. He also has the ability to transfer his personality to others. Which is quite a strange twist but I suppose is unsurprising given all the other weird shit that happens in this series.
We also meet a strange Mother figure who seems to be orchestrating the faction that split from the main evil organization. I keep hoping that I’m getting to understand the larger story in all of this, but so far not a whole lot of it makes sense. There are just too many questions and not enough answers. The volume wraps with the Lucy 7 and Partner dead and the status quo restored. More or less, at least. The main character leaves for a while while in his own Nichizono personality, and we are left with a great big question mark as to what it all means. Basically I get from this volume that this child Nichizono is special and probably going to be a main villain, that Machi’s ex is probably also going to turn out to be a psycho, and that the police detective is hilarious. It is fun that it is the same character who appears in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and it is great to see him as a younger man.
All in all the volume lives up to the previous volumes of the series in that it provides an entertaining and brutal story about serial killers and psychos. It is unflinching in its depiction of death and while it might lean heavily towards looking at women almost solely as sexual objects, I think that there is a little more there. I just can’t quite figure it all out yet, which makes sense because the author is keeping his cards close to his chest. The volume slips a little in that it doesn’t offer up many answer to what is happening, something the series really has to start doing. All this mystery and mysteriousness is just getting confusing. But still, I give this volume a 7.25/10.
So finally we managed to track down the missing volumes in this series. And it wasn’t an easy or altogether cheap process. Luckily we found a source that was selling volumes four through nine, and pounced on the opportunity to get them all, even if it took the investment of buying them all at once. Seeing as how volume five typically sells for something like twenty dollars and volume six for something like fifty dollars, we considered it well worth it. Sp th e reviews can continue. The last volume had set up the creation of miniature killers in the form of the Lucy 7. These children apparently also possess the same barcode eyeballs that the adult serial killer so far have had. And really this volume dealt mostly with resolving the plotline of the Lucy 7. It did this in typical fashion, or at least typical for this series. The bumbling police detective gets pulled into a profiling competition with an American named Partner, and the competition takes a turn when t he Lucy 7 show up and start murdering people.
The main story of this volume is fairly solid, and runs throughout the entire volume. It has room to breath, and resolves nicely. But there a few annoying things along the way. One of them is that the main female character, Machi, acts rather oddly in this volume, at first kind of whoring herself for a favor and then just sort of going along with everything. She is relegated to the background for most of this volume, and besides some random nudity doesn’t contribute. The dynamic between the multiple personality detective himself and the bumbling police detective is much more satisfying, as they navigate the dangerous game against the Lucy 7 and eventually Partner as well. Because, like everyone in this series, he turns out to be a psycho killer with a barcode eyeball as well. His mission is to kill the Lucy 7.
And that section of the volume is good. The Lucy 7, sure that they are the future and that they need to wipe out the old generation, are hunted down and murdered quite efficiently. The action and gore and all that is on par with everything else that we’ve seen in the series. It comes across as effectively creepy and intense. But the series gets a bit bogged down by a very convoluted storyline. New characters are always being added, and in this volume we see the return of a child killer who appeared in the story where Eyepatch Reporter man went psycho. He turns out to be another Nichizono, and possesses a unique eyeball mark that reads Lucy. So he at the very least is set up as different. Where the Lucy 7 turn out to be just drones, basically, one of any number of child killers that can be turned on, this Nichizono seems different. He also has the ability to transfer his personality to others. Which is quite a strange twist but I suppose is unsurprising given all the other weird shit that happens in this series.
We also meet a strange Mother figure who seems to be orchestrating the faction that split from the main evil organization. I keep hoping that I’m getting to understand the larger story in all of this, but so far not a whole lot of it makes sense. There are just too many questions and not enough answers. The volume wraps with the Lucy 7 and Partner dead and the status quo restored. More or less, at least. The main character leaves for a while while in his own Nichizono personality, and we are left with a great big question mark as to what it all means. Basically I get from this volume that this child Nichizono is special and probably going to be a main villain, that Machi’s ex is probably also going to turn out to be a psycho, and that the police detective is hilarious. It is fun that it is the same character who appears in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and it is great to see him as a younger man.
All in all the volume lives up to the previous volumes of the series in that it provides an entertaining and brutal story about serial killers and psychos. It is unflinching in its depiction of death and while it might lean heavily towards looking at women almost solely as sexual objects, I think that there is a little more there. I just can’t quite figure it all out yet, which makes sense because the author is keeping his cards close to his chest. The volume slips a little in that it doesn’t offer up many answer to what is happening, something the series really has to start doing. All this mystery and mysteriousness is just getting confusing. But still, I give this volume a 7.25/10.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 7, 2016
J’ai eu beaucoup de mal avec ce tome.
Déjà j’avais pas mon petit carnet avec les noms sous la main, du coup, j’ai ramé avec les persos déjà connus.
Mais en plus, on nous rajoute toute une troupe de gamins et un nombre impressionnant de personnes ayant le même nom de famille, ce qui fait que je me suis retrouvée toute embrouillée (pourquoi tout le monde s’appelle Nishizono ou Amamiya sérieusement ?).
En plus, il y a du y avoir un saut dans le temps, car Tetora, le gamin cinglé seul rescapé de la prise d’otages du tome 4, se retrouve prisonnier du Ministre de la Justice qui l’hypnotise à coup de chanson de Lucy Monostone, ce qui a pour conséquence de dédoubler sa personnalité et de réveiller Nishizono Shinji en lui.
La série est vraiment partie un peu trop loin pour moi là, avec un Zen.Itsu qui ne ressemble plus à rien, un complot gouvernemental entre le Japon, les États Unis et Gakuso, deux Shinji qui se retrouvent face à face dont un qui peut transmettre sa personnalité à tous ceux qui ont un code barre, une « mère » qui se balade à poil, et un Kazuhiko original brûlé (lors de l’incendie de la clinique ?).
En plus, je n’ai pas vraiment adhéré à Michel Partner, le profileur chargé de traquer les Lucy 7. Je suis contente qu’il meure rapidement.
J’ai du relire ce tome plusieurs fois pour réussir à en tirer quelque chose et réussir à comprendre ce qu’il se passait. Je pense que j’ai besoin de souffler un petit peu avant de passer à la suite.
Déjà j’avais pas mon petit carnet avec les noms sous la main, du coup, j’ai ramé avec les persos déjà connus.
Mais en plus, on nous rajoute toute une troupe de gamins et un nombre impressionnant de personnes ayant le même nom de famille, ce qui fait que je me suis retrouvée toute embrouillée (pourquoi tout le monde s’appelle Nishizono ou Amamiya sérieusement ?).
En plus, il y a du y avoir un saut dans le temps, car Tetora, le gamin cinglé seul rescapé de la prise d’otages du tome 4, se retrouve prisonnier du Ministre de la Justice qui l’hypnotise à coup de chanson de Lucy Monostone, ce qui a pour conséquence de dédoubler sa personnalité et de réveiller Nishizono Shinji en lui.
La série est vraiment partie un peu trop loin pour moi là, avec un Zen.Itsu qui ne ressemble plus à rien, un complot gouvernemental entre le Japon, les États Unis et Gakuso, deux Shinji qui se retrouvent face à face dont un qui peut transmettre sa personnalité à tous ceux qui ont un code barre, une « mère » qui se balade à poil, et un Kazuhiko original brûlé (lors de l’incendie de la clinique ?).
En plus, je n’ai pas vraiment adhéré à Michel Partner, le profileur chargé de traquer les Lucy 7. Je suis contente qu’il meure rapidement.
J’ai du relire ce tome plusieurs fois pour réussir à en tirer quelque chose et réussir à comprendre ce qu’il se passait. Je pense que j’ai besoin de souffler un petit peu avant de passer à la suite.
July 30, 2013
After the masterpiece of Volume 4, we walk into this volume. It plays off of various horror tropes as well as tries to recap most of what has happened in the previous collections. There is also an attempt at dark humor - or at least a lighter tone - as the shift in central character moves from our confused and flawed MPD detective to the bumbling Detective Sasayama. The premise is too much of a gimmick to take seriously. However, the strong end scene promises better things from future volumes.
Overall, this felt like an attempt to lighten the series, when it actually thrives on the dark mystery that has clouded over the past pages.
Overall, this felt like an attempt to lighten the series, when it actually thrives on the dark mystery that has clouded over the past pages.
June 20, 2016
Volume 5 finally admits that there are involved more countries than just Japan in this story which is intriguing. I finally am able to see difference between two of main character's personalities and author shows more of main plot revealing only a little at the time. It's kinda still confusing with all Lucy Monostone deal but I hope it will be explained in the near future. Great volume.
October 5, 2012
This volume feels kinda klunky compared to the last 4. The Mystery gets deeper and the violence is there but I think this volume kind of flows a tad bit choppy, hence the star deduction. I really hope the next 4 volumes are better flowing than this one!
May 7, 2013
Gitu itu anak2 SMP sok2an jadi penegak kebenaran, bunuh2in orang dewasa yang ngeselin, tapi pas giliran mereka terdesak, begging2 gak mau dibunuh... Dan ternyata anak kecil yang selamat dari Toguchi ternyata adalah Nishizono kedua.. mystery keeps rolling...
May 31, 2014
Continues with the gore, conspiracy, and confusion. Adds in an ability of one character to transfer his personality into another person, which kind of takes this out of the realm of vaguely plausible, and into the realm of supernatural. Not sure I like that aspect, but ok, I'll let it go.
April 18, 2016
Ugh! I'm done! Half of this doesn't make sense and the other half is just a meandering mess of a plot that goes nowhere. The first few volumes showed some promise, but I just can't keep trying anymore!
July 29, 2011
Well, the serial just went straight into "HOLY FUCK!" land with this one. In a good way.
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October 1, 2011Getting far more sci-fiy now. I'm liking it a lot. Hard to keep myself from reading volumes six and seven right now.
January 20, 2012
this keeps getting better and better with each new volume..and more confusing
August 27, 2015
Fuerte y más intenso
February 28, 2019
** Amazing and NOT for the faint at heart **
Eiji Otsuka's MPD Psycho is one of the most brutally bloodiest, psychologically dark, mind fucked mangas I have ever read. The complex array of socially dysfunctional psychopaths committing brutally creative, straightforward morbid homicides borderline erotic and disturbing at times left on mark on me while reading this series for nearly 5 years.
The art fresh with simple clean lines, macabre to say the least, hypnotized me with detailed expressions and backgrounds. That said, the illustrator kept most of the cast true to the Japanese background, a rare feat in today's mangas.
The plot felt realistic to a certain degree when excluding the Lucy Monostone ensemble (especially in the finale). There isn't much comedy as it is very dry, with no useless characters and a dark environment.
Unfortunately, the translators stopped a few years back and no english volume has been release in some time. Fortunately, the french version of the series had been completely serialized in France so I was able to grab copies and read the ending finally. Although I can read french this is the one downfall for those that cannot...
If you can muster the first chapter, you're in for a treat. This is just one of the novels where you need to fully pay attention to each sentence.
Do I recommend it:
YES!!!
Eiji Otsuka's MPD Psycho is one of the most brutally bloodiest, psychologically dark, mind fucked mangas I have ever read. The complex array of socially dysfunctional psychopaths committing brutally creative, straightforward morbid homicides borderline erotic and disturbing at times left on mark on me while reading this series for nearly 5 years.
The art fresh with simple clean lines, macabre to say the least, hypnotized me with detailed expressions and backgrounds. That said, the illustrator kept most of the cast true to the Japanese background, a rare feat in today's mangas.
The plot felt realistic to a certain degree when excluding the Lucy Monostone ensemble (especially in the finale). There isn't much comedy as it is very dry, with no useless characters and a dark environment.
Unfortunately, the translators stopped a few years back and no english volume has been release in some time. Fortunately, the french version of the series had been completely serialized in France so I was able to grab copies and read the ending finally. Although I can read french this is the one downfall for those that cannot...
If you can muster the first chapter, you're in for a treat. This is just one of the novels where you need to fully pay attention to each sentence.
Do I recommend it:
YES!!!
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