Kyuyaku Mother Ghoul
A prototype series to Mother Ghoul.
I guess Kiku Sugawara did this series first and it was originally called Holy Holy. This is only 2 volumes and feels like a smaller scale Mother Ghoul without a real ending. I’m glad that I read it because it fleshes out the backstory for certain characters who appeared in Mother Ghoul without any explanation. But I don’t think you need to read this before Mother Ghoul.
~dakazu
Mother Ghoul
A manga about a group of female students who have shipwrecked on an island filled with horrific lizard creatures.
This one ended up being pretty good. I didn’t really get much out of this manga until I read past the first volume. The survival of the girls is told parallel with a fairy tale that explains the lore behind the islands origins, which leads to some really gruesome revelations. The story delves into some Lord of the Flies stuff with one group of girls having an almost cult-like delusions about their situation. Kiku Sugawara‘s solid art work helps carry all of this into a decent horror series. I’ll keep reading more for now.
~dakazu