Octopus Girl, Vol. 3

Octopus Girl #3

by Toru Yamazaki

In previous volumes, Takako Unabara - the Octopus Girl - has fought zombies, Satanists, school bullies and the resilient Vampire Granny. Toru Yamazaki's latest collection of absurdist horror stories pits Octopus Girl and Sakae (her wicked companion who has the body of a moray eel) against alien aggressors, bathroom-invading mutants, jealous teen rivals and (once again!!) the annoying, tough Vampire Granny. Three bonus, "real world" horror vignettes are also included! These shocking manga tales, available in English for the first time, will hypnotize fans of the macabre and the absurd. Toru Yamazaki is a talented and twisted manga artist who has found recent cult popularity as a Japanese television personality and a recording artist. Cutting a crass, comical niche into modern horror manga, Yamazaki's Octopus Girl collections serve up the most disgusting dishes of heartbreak and revenge found on land or at sea!

Genres: Manga, Horror, Comics, Comedy, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Niki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book as a gift and have not read volume 1 or 2. While I find this book disturbing in a lot of good ways, there were just too many poop jokes for my liking. I probably won’t seek out other volumes for that reason.

[Mortimer · Rating 4 out of 5]

[review forthcoming]

[Razor · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 stars

[max · Rating 3 out of 5]

i think the creator got a poop kink cause WHAT?!!
(also the ur so funny u should kys comment made me yell bc ik i would say some shit like that)

[stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vol 1 was definitely the best of the series, 2 & 3 take weird turns like they ran out of ideas or something.

[Leila Anani · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a slight improvement on the last volume but Octopus Girl for me never manages to better the first instalment - In this one we get several stories featuring Octopus Girl and her friend Eel Girl all centred around Japanese urban legends - The slit mouthed woman, toilet ghost, child ghost, red shoes, granny vampire all here.

I like the creepy artwork and the concept of octopus girl but that's as far as it goes for me. The low humour is childish and really stupid and contradicts the 18+ certificate... the constant faeces eating is pretty disgusting, largely unfunny and for me negates the horror/gore elements. I also don't think that there is nearly enough octopus girl - For a manga entitled Octopus girl - I want tentacles, I want weird freaky aquatic horror and hybrids - our heroines are rarely in hybrid form for the most part they are normal girls and nothing here explores their bizarre nature. Wasn't keen on the stories either they are the type of manga I hate - random and full of non sequiturs - this is too weird even for me.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Octopus Girl took a step up from the second volume, but the third volume still lacked the crazy originality as the first. And I can understand. The idea was just so crazy, it seemed impractical to find new shenanigans for the girls to get into.

But what I really liked about this volume is Japanese folklore/urban legends that were brought in. They really brightened up the stories.

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