Suicide Girl

A manga about a young energetic teenage girl who is denied of her wish to commit suicide and must instead stop others around her from committing suicide by battling against suicide causing monsters known as Phobia by using a magical noose to transform into a magical hanged girl.

We’ve discussed this on a recent episode.

….yeah this manga is a whole can of YIKES.

Based on other Atsushi Nakayama manga I’ve read, I don’t think he’s trying to consciously trying to make a statement about suicide or lynching. My guess is that he wracked his brain for something unique and it brought him to this concept. But mixing magical girls with not only suicide but hanging makes for imagery too triggering for me. And when the main girl has to hang herself with a magical noose to unlock it’s powers? It makes it hard to look past these things to see a story of a teen dealing with loss and then blaming suicide on evil monsters instead of the serious issues that can lead to such a terrible choice. Nakayama may be a super talented artist but this book is just too problematic.

~dakazu