Semai Sekai no Identity

Rensuke Oshikiri’s crazy manga about a dystopian manga industry where battles break out Scott Pilgrim-style between manga artists fighting for serialization.

From the 1st chapter where a young, hopeful manga artist is defenestrated and impaled on a spike while they insert the “This is a work of fiction” warning, I knew I was in for a wild ride. Oshikiri inserts real-world gripes about the manga industry but turns them up to 11. The result is a mix of dark humor, excessive violence, and brutal commentary with a nice sprinkle of reality. Real manga artists like Inio Asano, Tooru Seino, and Rensuke Oshikiri himself appear to both self-deprecate and destroy their critics.

This manga is absolutely insane and I love it.

~dakazu