スーサイドガール 1 [Suicide Girl 1]

スーサイドガール [Suicide Girl] #1

by Atsushi Nakayama, 中山敦支

キラキラの女子高生・青木ヶ原星には、絶対に叶えたい人生の目標があった。それは…16歳の誕生日、自らの命をスーサイドする事。生命力溢れる自殺願望。まさに皮肉な絶望的希望。一生懸命、死に向かう彼女は自殺幇助喫茶、通称スーサイドカフェに辿り着く。しかし、生と死が混濁するその場所で世界の真理を識り新たな死命と死練を与えられる事になる。これは鬼才で奇才で輝才で稀才・中山敦支が贈る世界の夜と戦う陽の少女、生命の戦記!!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy

196 pages, Paperback

Published July 17, 2020

Reviews

[Nika · Rating 3 out of 5]

well okay

[Audre · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was weird as heck, but honestly the ride was enjoyable.

[Tori · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saw this recommended online and decided to check it out on a whim since it seemed right up my alley and I fell in love with the art and idea right away.

If suicide or body horror are triggering for you, I will say tread lightly as this manga contains graphic depictions on page and the girls transform by committing suicidal acts.

I enjoy the slight humorous tone to it and that's how I *personally* handle a sensitive and personal topic, but I can absolutely see how this could be extremely off-putting to a typical person.

I love how the author has just completely leaned into the ridiculousness of the entire premise unapologetically. Bedazzled noose the main magical girl uses to transform with? Check. Giving her the last name 'Aokigahara'? Check. Making a mechanic of the world that the heroines have to save the dead person within 4 hours, 44 minutes, and 44 seconds? Check. It's camp.

I very genuinely can't wait to see where this goes as it has all my favorite trimmings of a dark magical girl story. Hopefully, it will get a translated release sometime soon.

[Dan Wandereeze · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kirari quiere suicidarse. Y al intentar colgarse para ejecutar su voluntad descubre que no puede segar su propia vida. Esta revelación viene acompañada de la capacidad de percibir a las Phobias, seres que plantan la semilla del suicidio en las personas. Ahora está destinada a ser una Suicide Girl. Y su misión es descubrir "el sentido de la vida"(o lo que sea que esto signifique), un poder secreto para salvarlos a todos.
Lo que me encantó fue que el método de suicidio elegido por la protagonista la transformó en "La Doncella Colgada", su alter ego como Suicide Girl(el género de este manga es mahou shoujo).
Algo que me chifla es la cantidad de adjetivos "negativos" que utiliza el narrador: siniestro, infeccioso, purulento, amargo, sórdido, pútrido, agobiante, perverso, asfixiante y un largo etcétera.
Es una lectura ligera y divertida para antes de ir a dormir. En los próximos días leeré los demás volúmenes.

[Xi You · Rating 4 out of 5]

I saw this online. It's such a odd but great way of this author to approach this topic. The horror like art style but the cute and lovely aspects, it has the wholesome and the horrific. Personally to me it greatly shows how fear can work. Although the concept is odd sometimes but how even the bad have fears of their own and their own suffering then how the main characters always have their own fears and you saw they had bad coping ways, one wanted to kill themselves and another, an idol suffering from her own fears. Then although unhealthy aswell found an odd form of hope in a girl who through her grief decided to rather join the other, live for them. It was a lovely read.

Very deserving of a read although for those who don't like gore, not so much as it has a lot of gory aspects.

[⭐ Lukas ⭐ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting concept and I love the art style