Onde, contra todas as probabilidades, sobrevive, por entre os detritos daquele a que Hino chama de cemitério do mundo. Entre a incredulidade e vergonha, o homem faz o impensável, abandona o bebé deformado numa lixeira. O momento feliz de um pai ao nascer as filhas gémeas é estragado pela misteriosa deformidade de uma. Um conto de horror que escava sempre mais fundo, mas que termina com um inesperado lampejo de humanismo no fundo de uma tenebrosa descida à selvajaria. A história é de um surreal negro, com toque daquele sobrenatural japonês que foge às nossas lógicas de crime e castigo, ou de vitimização e inquietude. Easily will read this again down the line.ĭos mais estranhos, e inquietantes, contos cruéis de Hino. I didn't love this as much as I enjoyed his Panorama of Hell from last Halloween, but this was a great way to kick off my month long addiction to all things scary. He lacks the detail in his art of your Junji Ito's, but the characters have a memorable oblong quality to them. Hino's drawing style is obtuse and blunt, almost like a Japanese Jhonen Vasquez. The story is very simple, but in a world of 40+ volume complex manga tales it is a welcome change of pace to have such a simple story wrapped up in about 200 pages. She grows up into a deformed scavenger who eventually makes her way back into the city to cause terror and mayhem. This horror one-shot is a simple tale of a the life of a demonic female baby, hopelessly abandoned by her father at birth and forced to grow up in a junkyard struggling against other vermin. All while being grotesquely drawn by horror manga mastermind Hideshi Hino (who I have previously read the excellent Panorama of Hell from). It's quick, sweet, easy, and to the point. Hell Girl is the start to my Halloween Horror reading fest. Heads and arms may fly off, but the pervasive unreality - and the cute style - make it darkly funny and never grim or sadistic.
This isn't icky, it is just very silly - and brilliantly so. Also, the treatment of body horror in general echoes through his work: presented an aesthetic spectacle in which the joy is looking at the artistry of gore as much is it is being icked out by it. The fountains of blood, the dismemberment and the random violence are tropes Hideshi Hino obviously loves. Some of the visuals re-occur in Guinea Pig films, as does the transgressive and extreme spirit. The narrative is very silly but is knowingly so, the whole arc being a pastiche on elements of Frankenstein - with a dash of Sophocles. This is a delightfully dark tale full of over the top gore - all through a cutesy aesthetic. An early(ish) manga from the man who would go onto direct two of the best Guinea Pig films (and was, seemingly, the inspiration for the series).
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