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江戸川乱歩異人館 [Edogawa Rampo Ijinkan] #10
江戸川乱歩異人館 10
『熱男～防空壕～』
B29が東京の空を覆いつくした夜、とある防空壕に飛び込んだ男。そこで彼は、愛の極地に酔いしれる…。
『曲男～指輪～』
かつて同じ列車内で顔を合わせた男たちが再会。そして二人は、思い出話に花を咲かせる。「あの指輪は…どこへいった――？」。
『戯女～畸形の天女～』
仕事にも家庭にも恵まれ、順風満帆な人生を歩む男。しかし、無垢な少女との出会いが、男の人生をゆがめてゆく…。
『虐男～石榴～』
ある男に、乱歩が語る。かつて目撃した、硫酸殺人事件なる、おぞましく、そして凄絶な事件の顛末を…。
B29が東京の空を覆いつくした夜、とある防空壕に飛び込んだ男。そこで彼は、愛の極地に酔いしれる…。
『曲男～指輪～』
かつて同じ列車内で顔を合わせた男たちが再会。そして二人は、思い出話に花を咲かせる。「あの指輪は…どこへいった――？」。
『戯女～畸形の天女～』
仕事にも家庭にも恵まれ、順風満帆な人生を歩む男。しかし、無垢な少女との出会いが、男の人生をゆがめてゆく…。
『虐男～石榴～』
ある男に、乱歩が語る。かつて目撃した、硫酸殺人事件なる、おぞましく、そして凄絶な事件の顛末を…。
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174 pages, Paperback
First published February 19, 2015
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April 3, 2017
The first story: The Air-raid Shelter
By the end of World War II, a young man went into hiding in an air-raid shelter when the entire Tokyo was bombed down by American air force. He found himself alone in the dimly-lit cave, together with a beautiful woman who also took shelter there....desperation and fear of death drove them to each other's arms......and decades after this dreamlike encounter, the man was still chasing after the mysterious beauty and this suffocating, brilliant, hellish, multi-colors dream of his.
It's a very short story about madness, destruction, the beauty of death and overwhelming violence. Surprisingly, all of the elements above are played and experimented on, in the form of a comedy. The revealing at the finale would probably make you laugh, but strangely I have a feeling that I'd read similar story from Chinese or Japanese folklore before.
The second story: The Ring
Another short comedy. The logic beyond the robbery on a moving train and the missing ring is a sound one, and there is a fine sense of irony in the ending part of the story, yet I am not very impressed by this short story.
The third story: The Twisted Nymph or The Twisted Goddess
The 'twisted nymph/goddess' Rampo was referred to is in fact the 'tennyo/celestial maidens' from Buddhist/Hindus mythologies. It tells the belief encounter between a middle-age man who lived a double lives and a 16 years old girl whom the man called 'the twisted nymph'.
I have always loved Rampo's idea of a young girl who is dreamy and strange and cruel all at the same time when I first read this short story. Rampo only wrote this 'twisted nymph' and described her strangeness with words; but in this manga-adaptation of the same short story, the manga-ka drew the 'twisted nymph' and brought her to life right before your eyes: like an innocent child she approaches you, she laughs, she speaks her twisted little speech, she dances her twisted little dance, she stares up at you with her strange, round eyes, she seduces, she takes a life. The more you look at her, the more you are both threatened and mesmerized.
The fourth story: Pomegranate part 1
It is a story about a disfigured corpse being found in an empty house, this time the young Edogawa Rampo must take the role of a detective, it's a decent murder mystery with a sadistic undertone, I'm looking forward to read part 2.
By the end of World War II, a young man went into hiding in an air-raid shelter when the entire Tokyo was bombed down by American air force. He found himself alone in the dimly-lit cave, together with a beautiful woman who also took shelter there....desperation and fear of death drove them to each other's arms......and decades after this dreamlike encounter, the man was still chasing after the mysterious beauty and this suffocating, brilliant, hellish, multi-colors dream of his.
It's a very short story about madness, destruction, the beauty of death and overwhelming violence. Surprisingly, all of the elements above are played and experimented on, in the form of a comedy. The revealing at the finale would probably make you laugh, but strangely I have a feeling that I'd read similar story from Chinese or Japanese folklore before.
The second story: The Ring
Another short comedy. The logic beyond the robbery on a moving train and the missing ring is a sound one, and there is a fine sense of irony in the ending part of the story, yet I am not very impressed by this short story.
The third story: The Twisted Nymph or The Twisted Goddess
The 'twisted nymph/goddess' Rampo was referred to is in fact the 'tennyo/celestial maidens' from Buddhist/Hindus mythologies. It tells the belief encounter between a middle-age man who lived a double lives and a 16 years old girl whom the man called 'the twisted nymph'.
I have always loved Rampo's idea of a young girl who is dreamy and strange and cruel all at the same time when I first read this short story. Rampo only wrote this 'twisted nymph' and described her strangeness with words; but in this manga-adaptation of the same short story, the manga-ka drew the 'twisted nymph' and brought her to life right before your eyes: like an innocent child she approaches you, she laughs, she speaks her twisted little speech, she dances her twisted little dance, she stares up at you with her strange, round eyes, she seduces, she takes a life. The more you look at her, the more you are both threatened and mesmerized.
The fourth story: Pomegranate part 1
It is a story about a disfigured corpse being found in an empty house, this time the young Edogawa Rampo must take the role of a detective, it's a decent murder mystery with a sadistic undertone, I'm looking forward to read part 2.
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