470 – Triple Dip 76 – #DRCL midnight children, Panorama of Hell, Homunculus
Darfox is out sick this episode, but that doesn’t stop us from getting into week 3 of October Extravaganza! We’ve got a horror manga Triple Dip of #DRCL midnight children, Panorama of Hell, and Homunculus! We also talk about Gogogo Go Go Ghost and more!!!
Continue reading468 – One Shot 63 – Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki!
Welcome to the start of this year’s October Extravaganza! We’re kicking things off by looking into Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki!, a collection spooky stories from veteran horror manga artist Kanako Inuki! We also discuss Occult Detective Club: Doll Cemetery, Doubutsu Ningen, and more!!!
Continue reading426 – Recommendation Round-up 2 – Single Volumes
This week we answer emails while dakazu talks about Nagata Kabi’s new manga, a Gengoroh Tagame food manga, Hunter x Hunter, and more! Then we present our suggestions for awesome single volume manga in a new edition of Recommendation Round-up!!!
Continue reading397 – Manga in Motion 55 – Nicky Larson
For the final installment of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective we’re joined by our friend Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast to discuss the 2018 French action comedy Nicky Larson! We also have spoiler-talk for volume 18 of BEASTARS and impressions on the new Star Wars: Mandalorian and Star Wars: Visions manga!!!
Continue reading383 – Triple Dip 59 – Invisible Parade, Town of Pigs, From This Flame
On this episode Seamus talks about how The Secret might have helped with licensing Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and dakazu loves the story of a granny battling hell demons in Guranba! Then we look at upcoming releases from Glacier Bay Books and Star Fruit Books for a Triple Dip! We review Invisible Parade, Town of Pigs, and From This Flame!!!
Continue reading370 – Twiple Dip 2 – My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, Oishinbo
Seamus is out this week so the other hosts take advantage by looking at the second volume of previously visited series for a Twiple Dip! This time they check out My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, and Oishinbo! The hosts also give their first impressions of the live-action Cowboy Bebop show on Netflix!!!
Continue readingHell Baby
A horror manga about a hideous newborn who is thrown away by the father. After spirits possess her dead body she revives as a monster who must constantly feed on blood and flesh to survive.
This is another out-of-print book by Hideshi Hino. I continue to be impressed by Hino’s distinct character designs and surprisingly beautiful backgrounds. When the hell baby travels into the city the buildings are dark rectangles with bright windows on them. The stark contrast really caught my eye.
I think the story here is more melancholy then some of the disturbing themes in The Panorama of Hell. The hell baby eventually finds her family and beautiful twin sister but is unable to bring herself to take revenge. This is a great sympathetic monster story and a real shame that it’s not available in English anymore.
~dakazu
317 – Triple Dip 44 – Chainsaw Man, Blood on the Tracks, Super-Dimensional Love Gun
For our next October Extravaganza we have a trio of horror series perfect for Halloween! We’re checking out Super-Dimensional Love Gun, Blood on the Tracks, and Chainsaw Man! dakazu also talks about some new anime and we revisit the dark history behind the creator of the recently licensed Kirby Manga Mania!!!
Continue reading315 – One Shot 30 – Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist
Welcome to the start of our October Extravaganza at Manga Machinations! We’re going to be covering creepy, spooky, and horrific content all month long! To start, we’re doing a One Shot on Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist! Dawn from The Anime Nostalgia Podcast joins us to discuss Asumiko Nakamura’s psychological thriller about a novelist haunted by a mysterious woman who threatens to expose his secret of plagiarism!!!
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Continue readingThe Panorama of Hell
A horror manga about a painter obsessed with blood and various stories about his family members and their strange obsessions.
This is my first time reading through a Hideshi Hino book and I have to say I was shocked at how effective he is as a horror storyteller. In the beginning Hino’s slightly cartoony character art came off as charming and cute. They juxtaposed stories of blood flowers and boys sucking on pig eyeballs. The drawing seemed tame compared to the content they were trying to portray.
However halfway through the book I found myself being really horrified by the casual cases of domestic violence, both against women and children. The painter’s family was prone to violence and torture and these acts transformed the cartoony art into something more sinister. I really praise Hino for his art and I really loved of black ink blood filled with white dots representing snow.
Unfortunately The Panorama of Hell is out of print along with all of Hideshi Hino‘s English releases. Hopefully a publisher will rescue Hino’s works and release them so more manga fans can experience his unique art and dark themed stories.
~dakazu