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 reading420 – Chainsaw Man part 2
This week dakazu and Morgana are back and we’re joined once again by Whimsy! We discuss Choujin X, Genkaku Picasso, Homunculus, The First Slam Dunk, and more! Then we dive into our Chainsaw Man Retrospective by examining volumes 4-6!!!
Continue reading345 – Manga in Motion 47 – Homunculus
This week we take a quiz on foreign manga publishers and talk about book publisher Shueisha creating an app for independent game developers! Then we examine yet another lackluster live-action adaptation on Netflix with Homunculus!!!
Continue reading343 – Triple Dip 50 – Tokyo Revengers, Oishinbo, Generation Witch
This week dakazu learns about the birth of the first weekly seinen manga magazine with Losers ~Nippon Hatsu no Seinen Mangashi no Tanjo~! He also decides to stop reading Meisou Senshi Nagata Kabi Gurume de GO!! For our main topic, we check out Tokyo Revengers, Oishinbo, and Generation Witch for a new Triple Dip!!!
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A manga about a man who undergoes trepanation, a surgical procedure of drilling a hole in the skull, and becomes fascinated with the strange visions he begins to see.
Homunculus is a really interesting manga. It really explores this real life hypothesis researchers have about trepanation expanding your sixth sense. After the skeptical main character undergoes trepanation for money, he begins seeing people as strange forms or homunculus that reflect their inner selves. As the story enfolds the man investigates other homunculi while his mysterious background is slowly unraveled.
Homunculus is also a series that’s filled with some problematic content. There’s a story arc that covers some intense sexual assault and there’s a pretty outdated portrayal of a transgender person. Creator Hideo Yamamoto is known for his violent works like Ichi the Killer so I expected this book to be similar but since this series started in 2003 it more or less reflects the time period. I will praise Yamato for his fantastical designs for the various unique homunculi that are tied to character’s backstories.
It was recently announced that they’re adapting this into a live-action movie in 2021. I’m hoping buzz around the film will help Homunculus get an official English release!
~dakazu
306 – Fantasy Magazine 2 – Science Fiction
Seamus is out this week so Morgana, Darfox, and dakazu submit their top science fiction manga picks they’d like to license for another edition of Fantasy Magazine! We also discuss Monster #8, Chainsaw Man, I Had That Same Dream Again: The Complete Manga Collection, Lv1 Maou to One Room Yuusha, Mieruko-chan, and more!!!
Continue reading196 – Triple Dip 28 – Soil, Homunculus, Family Compo
This week is a shorter episode but we also have two contenders for future retrospective reviews in Soil and Homunculus! We also discuss the LGBTQ+ representation of the late 90’s manga Family Compo!
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