Mujina into the Deep

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Mar 10, 2023 to ?

Genre: Action

Theme: Gore

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Big Comic Superior

Authors: Asano, Inio (Story & Art)

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Terumi Morgan bitterly accepts that he shouldn't expect a lot from life. He just wants to meet his deadlines at work and watch his porn in peace. But then an unexpected sick day sends him on a collision course with two people who will change his world forever—a runaway kid and a thirtysomething mujina assassin. Suddenly life is expecting a lot from him.

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Mujina into the Deep has been simulpub digitally in English by VIZ Media through VIZ Manga. The volumes have been published by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint since February 18, 2025. It has also been released in Italian by Panini Comics since February 20, 2025.

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Ubume

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Yutarou

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Oshima, Juno

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Ichinose, Sueichi

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Aug 1, 2025

chips901

Recommended

Preliminary (27/? eps)

Asano Inio is a very difficult author to write/critique about. You'd THINK you know what he's talking about, but every single time you think about his works, they're so vivid, so lucid, so epic, so chaotic, so tragic, so orgasmic.

You look at his past works and it's nothing but sentimental stuff. With his earlier works, he tried his hardest to expose the deepest parts of our vulnurabilities! You read critiques about his stuff and it's always a glaze of depression.

Yet... for what it's worth... he's always striking exponentially deeper than before. Admittedly, I haven't read all of his works... but that's the sinking feeling I ...

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Feb 12, 2025

FelipeJuan

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Preliminary (5/? eps)

It feels so natural for Inio Asano to make an action manga! His last works (like Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction) already contained some action scenes, and here they have a really nice pacing. Also, the art style is still very detailed for the backgrounds, plus some unique character designs.

However, so far there's no meaning behind all the sex scenes this manga has. I mean, unlike Punpun, it doesn't look like anything else but an edgy manga for teenagers. That's very unlike him, so I guess this time he really needs some time to develop the reasons behind it (well, I hope so).

Also, while ...

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Feb 8, 2025

Gsarthotegga

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Preliminary (10/? eps)

The character art is some of his ugliest, aside from the moe being passable because at least he is trying to make his characters look appealing, like he would sometimes do in the past. Seriously, why is he reusing Yunbo, the fat prostitute, as if that scene from Reiraku was anything but garbage? Asano chub chaser achievement unlocked. This is one of the most repulsive manga I've seen from a mangaka I used to admire. What's with all the pointless sex scenes and nudity? It's strange because I don't tend to ask that or think that there necessarily has to be a "reason," but it ... feels forced here: as if Asano realizes Mujina into the Deep is subpar and needs to distract from it by putting in lots of "mature" violence and sex.

A prime example of the vulgarity is when Main is sent on her first hit job; the mark, a fat, unattractive middle-aged woman, is introduced by having her hop out of a cab to drop her clothing down to where we see her bulging bare ass so she can relieve herself. When Main swoops in for the kill, the mark summons her own mujina, who is an obese naked man in bondage gear. It's unbelievable how trashy this manga is, even though Inio Asano is often assumed to be part of the 2deep4u teenage nihilism crowd.

This looks like a work from a first time author who spends too much time on Twitter, Live Leak, and Porn Hub rather than a seasoned mangaka, even if the art is quite proficient other than a few grotesque character designs. The dialogue is horrendous and would make even Tarantino at his most excessive blush. Imagine your final words being to call someone "cray cray" or to spout any of the Kill Bill-tier "tricks are for kids" lines coming from the mujina and influencer Tenko's filthy mouth. I doubt this is a case of unfaithful translation because the trashiness of the dialogue often matches the visuals to a tee.

It seems Terumi, who has European ancestry but was born in Japan, is a character who is simultaneously integrated into Japanese culture through his career but is wholly alien to it racially and somewhat of an outcast in his industry despite his successes. It's also pretty obvious he is meant to be the stand-in for Asano here, which clears up some of the political blather and indicates how estranged Asano feels, and there's plenty of overlap from his semi-autobiographical Reiraku. Terumi has a lot of the meandering "why do we live?" kind of monologues and is constantly in his head and critical of society.

Asano is looking at the generational divide, which is likely best emphasized by the bimbo with the "liberation" shirt and mushroom-cloud afro, who is unbearable in terms of behavior and appearance and louder than most comedy skits featured in shonen for elementary school kids. She seems like a poor attempt to lampoon an irritating type of political activist character. Asano can be burlesque and tacky when he gets into the political stuff, with this one being fairly explicit. Though she's meant to be the butt of many jokes, she does make one statement that seems to act as a kind of thesis for the work: the Mujina, which are basically ninjas, ronins, rebels, or general outcasts, hopping around on rooftops and often taking illegal jobs, like assassination, lack "human rights."

Understanding the ways of the mujina is a means of tapping into the feelings of the next generation, who are even more alienated from society than Terumi. Furthermore, the elderly, after 85, have their rights revoked and are moved into zones to reduce costs and save resources, perhaps functioning reminiscently to a more benign version of the tales of the past that had the elderly abandoned in the mountains when times were rough. Mujina are in the same boat as the 85+ crowd, except they're more so in a gray zone, where the government hasn't quite wormed its tentacles into.

There's at least one interesting idea: It's revealed how much the lines are blurred when it comes to the mujina operating illegally and on the fringes and how much they have to gain from left-wing lobbyists who are concerned with the expansion of human rights to the mujina. Human rights can be exploited for gain, with it even being valuable to sacrifice one's rights or the alternative possibility of scamming one to give them up, presenting the issue of rights as more like another part of the consumerism that Asano is critiquing. Thankfully, he goes beyond basic bitch oppressor/oppressed narratives, though the story does return to this being exploitation and a partial explanation for the young girls wandering the streets aimlessly. Additionally, the manga is also exploring the media industry and the way it shapes child stars, treating it as a kind of Stockholm syndrome and brainwashing, which would apply to the model of consumption as well. The story is consumed by a fixation on human rights or a lack thereof and consumption culture, without many intriguing developments as of yet.

The critiques from Asano in this manga are mostly valid but delivered in a shallow "rule of cool" kind of way. A lot of his perspective feels outdated as well, only focusing on capitalism and people being fashioned into consumers, reminiscent of an entertaining but inaccurate dystopic vision like John Carpenter's They Live. If everything were about consumption, then increasing the birth rate would be desirable. The idea is actually closer to using consumer society (amongst other things) to numb the masses and gradually reduce or shrink the population so as to preserve a greater number of resources for the ultra-wealthy. The global population is shrinking, and, yes, that applies even to Africa, which is set to see a decline in the population over time. Asano probably chooses this hill to die on because it's safe and easy, and we all know Asano is a whiny bitch boy who's probably 100% accurately represented by the MC in his vile Reiraku, who is obsessed with sales. With how often his characters are shown jerking off, I'll bet Asano jerks off anytime his manga sells more. Number go up--UOOOOOOOH! 😫😫😫😭😭😭🍆🍆🍆💦💦💦.

Even when I agree with Asano in some respect, it's still easy to become repulsed by his caricatures because they feel too over the top, and it seems he's mocking everyone with "hip" dialogue. Honestly, this kind of satirical approach isn't Asano's forte, and he's even less proficient at crafting an action series. The characters are one-dimensional garbage with poor dynamics and the final nail in the ghastly coffin: Ubume is a stoic cardboard-cutout female assassin. Juno is a dull damsel in distress to be saved from a fate similar to the mujina. Tenko is the kind of character the word "degenerate" was made for. No one else is even all that notable, though the detectives might have a more compelling dynamic than Ubume and Tenko, who mirror them in the sense that they are also opposites. Although not a likable character, Terumi is one of the few who is even remotely interesting thus far. Whereas Punpun and other works from Asano at least had some degree of character depth with functioning relationships and scenarios, Mujina into the Deep only offers meh politics, oodles of naked females done up in Asano's vaguely derpy style, and goofy action scenes.

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