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Sep 12, 2025
This is my first Shintaro Kago story collection, I've read some one-offs only, such as Abstraction and some eroguro stuff. Something about this longer coherent story was a change of pace, i enjoyed it, I'm noting how meta the author likes to go. In the eponymous story, there's like three layers of narrative going on: a former occurence flashback, the narrative of people who are invited to participate in Ana Morphosis show, and the narrative post-reveal. The artist loves to revel in playing with height differentials: miniatures and large-scale sites, it's really impressive, you can get a taste of it in a lot of his
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works, there's an amazing attention to detail with the multiples and scale differences. For example, there's supposed to be a monster rampaging in a miniature city just like godzilla movies (or any kaiju really) and at the same time, there's a narrative happening from the miniature's POV, it's fun.
A lot of the criticisms of the other reviewers here comes from the disjointed and unhinged nature when comparing the other short stories and the main story. That just seems to be par for the course, the same is true for most short story collections in the genre, from Ito Junji to Uziga Waita. Though I will say for this collection, it wasn't as extreme as I know Kago can get, he's more surreal and cerebral when compared to other eroguro but the reason I come back to this guy in particular is that there's moments of absurd humor that leave me chuckling (among all the disgusting shit this guy gets up to).
For example, I'll describe two of the short stories and if they tickle your fancy due to their absurdism, please enjoy this collection.
1) a girl is undergoing surgery and the incompetent surgeons keep losing their surgical tools inside her so they have to keep going back repeatedly, then she gets out of surgery after a couple days and it turns out many objects lost by random people in the town end up inside her belly so they open a flap and get it out, then she runs into a fellow student and he recently lost his girlfriend (she died) so the girl offers him to put things inside her belly in order to forget the dead girlfriend, it keeps escalating...
2) a girl wakes up with her nipple replaced by a human mouth, turns out she was forced to drink and an orgy ensues where it seems whatever people put on their mouth would swap places, so in a day we find out that a student had an illicit relationship with his mother so her nipple is now her mouth, a student has a penis for a mouth because he fellated a teacher, and so on so forth, we figure out where her nipple went 40 years later.
Now I won't sit here and recommend this to everyone, not everyone is down for the extreme absurdism and the graphic depiction of rape, murder, and bodily dismemberment, particularly on victims who are teen girls, that's the genre, unfortunately. So yeah, dig through some shit to find diamonds maybe.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Sep 11, 2025
Oh well, I messed up and read this one first and apparently it's a spin-off!!!! Dang but anyways this is lively and wholesome, an absolute blast with depth and consideration for the characters in many aspects of their lives from familial to career to their traumas. The main character switches partially through and you discover the ins and outs of this establishment of hot men who cater to different body types and vibes. Everyone in the cast has their thing: serious, goofy, timid, dominant, at the bare minimum. You start to see the real main character in Daikichi and you see the long life he's
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lived, the found family and the complex feelings of love towards father figures, he's going through a lot of emotional struggle handled with emotional intelligence: the author excels with that storyline but the focus on others diminishes, which is fine. You don't always need to know everything going on with all the characters as their plotlines essentially get solved before Daikichi solves his problems. There's a lot of depth and warmth (both bodily and story-wise) in this manga and the intimate scenes are rather enjoyable, outside of the encounters with the yakuza, all start tender then turn wild as the characters' emotional depth reach new heights. Definitely recommend and will check out the original story soon ;)
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 1, 2025
Absolutely batshit insane-o, and this seems to be the mangaka's bread and butter, and for that there is no shame in the game! Astra Ashima provides the wildest plots with non-sensical moments and joke after joke. They won't all hit (one of the most popular gags is someone named Ono getting dismembered/beheaded repeatedly and people saying "oh no, Ono!" and I eat that shit up every single time). It is unpredictable and the character design is a blend of cute and hardcore, metal meets kawaii aesthetics but not Babymetal, if you know what I mean.
The plot is that there's a woman who works with corpse
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disposal and she manages to reanimate a serial killer who she's obsessed with, he's not so keen on being alive again. That's honestly as much as a distilled plot I can give, you really don't need more because unfortunately, the manga is a short sub-20 chapter ode to wild moments. Of course, there's growth in the characters and a main conflict where the antagonist (a sadistic warden who wants the perfect convict who he can kill forever) is somewhat thrwarted, but due to the brevity of this run, it's very hard to advance the plot in such short amount of time.
It's short and fun, and there's an absolutely stupid (respectfully) and funny backstory extra chapter about the feud between birds and crabs, it's so silly and cute. It might get repetitive here and there, but the manga's got heart and it's a fascinating way to explore gore without overtly being gore, like the mangaka found a strange way to make it PG gore with all the violence, it might be due to the main character's cute disposition of rainbows and unicorns despite literally being a morgue necromancer. Fun stuff.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 31, 2025
My porn actor fuckboys can't be this cute!! What a wholesome story, honestly was expecting some darker situations mirroring real life but it was much more lighthearted than I could imagine. Takumi is a star at the top of his game for his company, when he starts to receive orders from his director that they're branching to gay market to entice women's tastes. He meets Kai, a detached and sarcastic hooligan who really plays with Takumi's serious side. There's something of a history between the two, as Takumi's first queer experience was 7 years before the story begins. Takumi's gotta work through his feelings about
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queerness, Kai's got a hidden secret he doesn't want to share but Kai convinces Takumi to play pretend boyfriend for his protection.
What ensues is a cute (if one can even have cute and wholesome elements in a story about the porn industry) tale where two prime porn actors discover what real sex is like. I would have loved to know more characters around the main pair, as each of them has a little bit of flare going on but they only show up at the beginning and end, but it's a short story, very quick read and the ending is on the happier side of things. Even the antagonist has some genuine transformation within. Of course, what the antagonist did to one of our protagonists IS evil and terrifying, it's kind of played out in the plot as less serious and as a kind of growing opportunity for the main characters. It's nothing amazingly special but a refreshing take on a romanticized industry after I've been sifting through a lot of edge-lord things.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Aug 30, 2025
Other times when the larger, voluptuous women chase after the wimpy protagonist, there's no explanation, it's just kinda wish fulfillment but hey this manga actually gave us a reason for it, and it's pretty creative.
Sakurai is attracting the attention of several myths, curses, hoaxes, legends, mysteries, yokai, whatever you wanna call it, they all want him and they shift from milf/onee-chan vibes to horrid (but still somewhat sexy) creatures, they all wanna eat protag-kun. The reason is a bit confusing but rather cool and supernatural. However, I think I'm not comprehending everything due to the translation not being the best (or maybe the original material
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wants to remain aloof and mysterious).
The reason for confusion is that there are several moments of flashbacks and moments where the protagonist is receiving potentially false memories like they're not his own, and he drifts in and out of sleep, and by the time the narrative is progressing, it's hard to tell how much time has passed. (SPOILERS FOR THE PLOT EXPLAINED HALFWAY THROUGH, WHY THE CREATURES ARE AFTER PROTAG) Part of it is on purpose because it seems a great spirit has suspended time (and the cast of characters) in a bubble universe to force the strongest spirits to kill themselves. And the non-human creatures inside the universe have died and killed time and time again and have gone mad, and therefore seek the way to die... what is it? Sakurai, our protagonist, ate it somehow long ago. He holds a poison to kill immortal beings. Now this is the explanation given to us by external sources to the monsters, each spirit might have their own reasons for wanting to be around/hunt/eat/kill the protag, some protect him even though they know his power.
(END SPOILERS FOR NOW)
The art is ridiculously beautiful, there's a balanced blend between glittering beauty and dread-filled creatures, there's several creative takes on urban legend design, and the artists love a double page spread for those creatures. This story has potential but its ever-ballooning cast and explanations become rapid info-dumps with seemingly no end in sight. Though by chapter 35ish, I guess we've seen the main challenge ahead of us, the strongest of the special-grade spirits. There's a power ranking system that reminds me of attack on titan with the mindless minor spirits possessing people and running around getting their asses kicked during the battles by the special grades towering above them. It's fine for an afternoon read and it goes by quickly but there are still enough mysterious to keep us entertained for whenever translators get on that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 28, 2025
Below is the main spoilers, if you wish to know.
There's an author's note at the end where the author is pontificating on how they wish their manga was encountered, they wanted to be remembered like a vague idea of "oh it's that manga where the protagonist fingers the dog" and then you read it and go "what did I read." So that kind of mentality is funny because on the surface, it's kind of inviting people to just read for the shock value about that moment, but the story is really about a great variety of fucked up, traumatic situations and people wishing to escape
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them in their own fucked up ways. So by definition, there's already a controversial situation happening and it might overshadow the themes the author may want to express.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a masterpiece of depth and nuance, but often the shock value stuff is what gets people in the door, and once your morbid curiosity is sated, I would hope you try to find diamonds in the pigsty, if any.
Male lead is sexually accosted by a woman nearly three times his age who was cheating on a husband with male lead's older brother. But equally, the idol of the classroom has been enjoying his company because she's been on the receiving end of weird bullying from the other girls in the class. So there's a rapey situation from an older woman, a genuine attempt at connection from a girl in his grade, and then along comes a suggestive dog with fuck-me eyes and the most attention to detail I've seen in a manga dog with quite the contrast in art form between dog and other characters (sometimes the people look offmodel and amateurish but the dog's always looking the best). The dog is both a moment of ethereal bestiality and a plot device because the male lead find's a missing student's ID in her vagina after fingering the dog and filming it.
In the end, we find that the dog is a sort of supernatural entity that has been giving alluring eyes to other people, most recently the cadaver of a missing student is found by male lead in a pit, but there's a panel in that pit where the dog is surrounded by skulls.
In a way, the male lead's growth happens and he confronts a terrible situation of having a disgusting act of his leaked amongst his friends, so the manga ends in a cliffhanger where he calls the female lead. I guess finding a narratively satisfying way to come back from having your bestiality footage leaked to high schoolers is quite a difficult writing task.
Now I'm not advocating for anyone and everyone to go read this, you may simply end your journey with the knowledge that the very author wanted to share "boy fingers dog" but this taboo is just another day in disturbing authorship and there is the small merit that there is an actual plot and the male lead saying fuck you to escapism so he comes back to society and confronts it.
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Male high school student likes taking videos of his and his friends' hijinks. Large breasted female student is the center of attention for two reasons (maybe three or four reasons [she has vestigial nipples]) and one day she lets male lead touch her breasts to prove the rumor true. A few days before this, male lead sees his older brother's older girlfriend peeing in the bath with a satisfied look, almost erotic, she was playing with the teen's emotions by being extremely suggestive (later she's revealed to be 38 years old and married so she was lying and sexually accosts male lead by forcing his fingers into her vagina while she was on her period). So ignoring the parenthetical, the main mystery is that a student in his class went missing, so he and female lead team up as "detectives" to solve the case. One day, male lead sees a ghostly, ethereal white dog who always poses suggestively, butt out, alluring eyes, the artist really tried their best with the dog. Male lead follows dog one day, thinks about female lead's nipples, this dog has many nipples, so he starts rubbing the dog and sticks his fingers in dog's vagina, where he pulls out the missing student's ID. Oh yeah, he was also filming this whole incident and always struggles to delete it even when the female lead (who is later his girlfriend) almost finds the video, he's jerkin it every night like a rabid dog. Female lead wants to develop their relationship further by kissing but the couple is interrupted by the white dog, FL runs away, ML stays and sticks appendages into dog. The aforementioned elder bro's GF accosts male lead but ML rejects her after finding blood on his fingers and she drunkely asks him to go get pads for her. In revenge, she leaks the dog video to ML's group chat, FL gets called a bitch because the pervy video is revealed and she breaks up with him. ML, distraught, goes outside and sees the dog who leads him to the forest paradise and he's convinced he wants to stay there to avoid society ("i want to stay here with the dog"). Dog leads him into a hole in the ground where ML can't escape, he's just stuck but he's masturbating to pass the time. Turns out the missing student is now a corpse in the ground and the dog has been luring people with suggestive lewdness and then killing them, ML fights the dog, gets out, then goes home to call FL, manga ends there.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 27, 2025
I am writing this from the viewpoint of a first reread since I picked this manga up about two years ago (now is August 2025), I let it accumulate chapters so I could enjoy a couple of weeks where I read about 5 chapters a day, then got too curious and just binged.
Upon my first read, I was fascinated by the art style, it's so fun, though admittedly there are a few moments where the action is a tad hard to follow but nonetheless still so stylish. This is one of those extremely aesthetics-heavy manga, something like Bleach with the fashion and Jojo's with
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the flare for the eccentric, except this has its more gritty urban mode because well they live in a location where trash falls from the sky.
This is one of my favorite visual experiences, it is brimming with grit and the character design in this is so fun, there's an absolute overflow of expressions, no one is alike, they each reflect the artist's amazing creativity. A recent interview where Kei Urana said that the main character Rudo is most reflective of their young self with the rude and rage-filled characteristics, this kid has a lot to learn and that's a great way to summarize this rough-around-the-edges manga. The story is shrouded in mystery, it's messy and you don't know how things are gonna play out since the characters are subdivided into various factions and teams, rivals and protagonists alike. There's so many characters and you don't always get to see them working together or show up at all again. With such a varied pool of characters to choose from, it is reminiscent of those trademark masterpieces of shonen where each arc has their world and they go visit and change fits and solve issues.
This current arc (August 2025) is where a character we have only seen very briefly becomes the main antagonist, starting off as a cleverly written sneaky dude who delivers news to everyone in the manga, now his power is controlling people. Though by this moment in the narrative, he is now the 3rd or 4th antagonist, so we are gathering information quite quickly as we have just learned about a new McGuffin that gets us closer to the secrets of the story. This point in the manga, there's lots to say but would involve spoilers.
The power system is really cool, as the objects one treasures become a wonderful tool to defeat the trash beasts that gather on the ground but also people fight against one another using their tools. Midway through the story we get to see the longterm antagonist and our plucky team of protagonists is not ready to fight it so I'm excited to see their growth (and by this arc at the doll festival, we alkready get to see some of that talent and strength growing).
The author planted many mysteries, and I hope they all tie together but I mainly enjoy how the story is build around learning to be kind to one another and acknowledge your shortcomings in order to befriend people, of course the power of friendship might be an overplayed trope but this band of misfits has so much trauma that a little friendliness will treat them like a good healer on any squad should.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Aug 23, 2025
I'm on a dumpster digging mission to find trash, we've struck silver (not gold). It's fine, I like the focus on story, which due to its brevity is a better-written smut than other things out on the market. Nearly 30 chapters and the perversion begins early on, quick pace and the potential antagonist that catches the main duo in semi-incestuous acts is a refreshing character who doesn't seek revenge but instead mellows out, rights his past wrongs, and cares for the second female lead.
We get a good amount of internal monologues and backstories from the two female leads involved, which is quite nice, we get
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to know why they are doing what they do. Why Yuna is turned on by watching instead of participating, we learn about Narumi's feelings wondering whether she's really into the being watched fetish or whether she really likes the male lead. It's nice to see a male lead fully diving into the pits of hell, he's got conviction once he's out of the "should i? is it wrong?" moments he feels stuck between two potential paramours. And by "it's nice to see" I mean it is a trainwreck.
The plot is set up in such a manner that makes everyone involved fucked up semi pervs except for who was initially perceived as an antagonist (Narumi's ex from high school), Motoyama comes off as classic chad popular dude but his ending is silly and different from someone who started with such confidence.
I won't spoil the ending but the pits of hell continue through the end and it's just so comical, honestly this genre of perversion and semi-NTR is rather hilarious instead of feeling morally wrong. The wrong part is the legal incest between step-siblings, and my translation flip-flopped between step-sister and sister, these two are fucked up nerds who get their rocks off in terrible ways.
The most complex character in all this is Narumi, who was seriously battling between her feelings of being wrong, needing to figure out her relationship with the main male lead, figuring out a compromise with her ex, being taunted by female lead, I think she is broken and rebuilt quite a lot and felt bad for her by the end of the narrative but watching her journey was solid.
Read this for stupid shit with good art and a stupid ending <3
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 4, 2025
Synopsis: standard pathetic male character becomes non-pathetic due to obsession, fetish, submission, pain, abstinence, masturbation, various acts of indecency, piss play, jealousy, and many similar things all in service to mysterious female character whose lack of exposition or interiority leaves us with many questions and very few answers.
I get that a lot of people will relate to this, I've read reviews hailing this as a godsend, I've seen people disgusted about the first few acts the male lead engages in, people dropping the story and people saying just get through the fetishy bits to get to the heard. I've seen how polarizing this manga
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gets. But I think with a lot of these "pathetic lad gets better" style of story, this isn't the most relatable thing for me on that front. However, the story is a bit more than that growth which always seems to come at the expense of the female lead they obsess over. In a sense, maybe the journey of self-discovery IS enough (even if it comes in twisted ways such as puncturing your penis with a nail or tying your hands behind your back while your pants are falling in public). Abstractly, the object of getting better is external (in this case, it's the yearning for the female lead), a lot of people have that, as long as it doesn't get problematic, why not aim to be better because you want to be romantically involved with or praised by someone you like? PLUS this story's object of getting better is into the same freaky shit you're into, I can understand people being weirdos when growing up, finding they have similar fetishes or interests. But notice I keep saying "object" of getting better. the Female Lead even calls it out at a few points that the ML is only doing things for rewards from her and she is aloof mysterious until the ML apologizes profusely and she goes back to her usual mysterious yet dominant ways.
Most of the story, the FL is hidden behind walls of defense, and we learn that she is without parents, she lives alone, she has some form of debilitating sickness since she's often out of school and bleeding from her nose, she has a strange relationship with a doctor at the local hospital who visits her at home, and she likes the dominant-submissive relationship she has with the Male Lead, she's a little laissez-faire and naive at school, a little uncaring about how she's perceived. Her character growth is that she opens herself up to friends and potentially to love but the end of the character arc is a bit of a spoiler. Most of the things outside of that are created in the ML's own thoughts, there's a lot of things she says that are lies, and many things that seem one way and are invented by the ML's insecurities. I want to highlight that the FL does also change in this, it's not unilateral, but it is often overshadowed by continuous references to the ML's growth. The few instances of change pointed out by people is by the doctor's wife and by the ML saying things like "today I was able to see into her heart more than usual" things of that nature.
But a lot of speculation about that doctor and that's really what drove my curiosity with this story, this unknowable presence and his relationship with the FL. The narrative, the images, the interactions present that something is off, something is not normal with the relationship between the FL and doctor, I wanted to know anything about the medical condition she suffered, why the home visits, why the doctor's wife knew about the condition, why the reaction between the doctor and the ML are twisted to the point where the ML has to brag about the nasty stuff FL gets to do to him. And well dear reader... is any of that answered? :) we shall leave that to you.
The friends are often one-note and the same trope about their obsession with different body parts and fetishes, they get into wacky situations. The gyaru and fishface nerd characters were probably the best aspect outside the central premise, they are two of the members of this school club that also undergo growth and it was nice to see them get better with understanding themselves. Whoa look at that, the seemingly one-note character for comedy gets a character arc. One of the more touching moments was when the gyaru, whose delinquent ex asks her back so she can give him a blowjob on the roof, gets to have a moment of sad intimacy with the FL and cries, breaking her usual facade of everything is fine. Things really take a turn for the better after that.
So yeah, all this ink spilled and a lower than surprising rating, it's probably my own subjective feeling that the premise was interesting enough and the growth of characters is pleasing but it is just solid and because I'm not the age range this might appeal to, it makes me feel as though it misses the mark of greatness WITH ME, your mileage may vary.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 28, 2025
(as of writing, 16 chapters have been translated to english, but manga has 25 chapters, if you know the language, you can find it.)
Oh this is really fun, in that it is not at all fun to be the victim of this manga's antagonist. There is a type of superhuman presence and leeway the antagonist Miu is tapped into, but as we've kinda learned with a lot of scammer celebrities in the news, you'll never really tell someone is a scammer when the scammer tries their best. It may have been my reading speed or how engrossed I was but the pace is quite speedy.
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You go from opening scene of murder, to main character Ai moving to another place to write a novel, to scammer Miu focusing on stealing Ai's life, to shit hitting the fan. I'm keeping things loose without spoiling because this definitely deserves the creeping, mounting dread caused by the scammer (maybe I could say changeling, imposter, creature?). I really like how the translators give a slow, methodical speech to Miu as we meet her which then evolves to show her taking on a new persona. At this current chapter (16), shit has hit the fan and there's an act of violence that will soon shift this manga from detective-y mystery to straight up horror that comes with a traumatic unfolding I'm excited for! There's the antagonist's childhood trauma, the larger murder spree, Ai's novel, the outfall of Ai's relationships, all this to unfold!!!! So good!!!
Jump on this hype train now! I've seen some comparisons to Shuzo Oshimi (Blood on the Tracks, Happiness, Welcome Back Alice) and I can definitely say that's high praise, I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops, I will adjust this as the story grows further, but so far a thriller with potential. I also really like how Miu's face has this uncanny presence that just reeks of PTSD Radio vibes (that one where the girlfriend is looking at the sleeping boyfriend).
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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