Akuma-kun

A horror series about a young boy who wants to open a portal to hell and summon demons.

Wow.

My first exposure to Shigeru Mizuki’s classics Akuma-kun series was the 90′s TV show reboot. It’s probably my favorite Mizuki series just because I loved the monsters who fought along with Akuma-kun to rid the world of evil. I think Mizuki really got to stretch his creative wings from his Japanese horror roots. But I never knew that his original origins were so sinister.

The Akuma-kun here is a horrifying child who ultimately wants to take over the world with monsters. It reminded me a lot of the anime Hakaba Kitarou, which was also a dark version of it’s original series.

~dakazu