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seasonofhorror · 1 month
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Aku no Hana (The Flowers of Evil)
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celestialmega · 2 years
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Okaeri Alice, おかえりアリス, Okaeri Arisu, Welcome Back Alice by Shūzō Oshimi.
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hiyokoluvs · 1 year
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shuzo oshimi art 𑁍
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carnageandculture · 1 year
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Aku no Hana by Shūzō Oshimi
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brightpinkink · 7 months
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Shūzō Oshimi is such a talented manga artist and I love his work and how weird it is, but dude needs to like question his gender a lil. just a lil. There are so many afterwords where he’s like “I’ve always really wanted to be a girl like really really bad and I hate being a boy but it’s normal and I am so so cis trust me dude.” Like half his manga explore gender expression or identity.
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Relatable panel from Shūzō Oshimi's note at the end of volume one of his gender bending manga Inside Mari.
[read from right to left]
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erikkamirs · 1 year
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If you hadn't heard, Tatsuki Fujimoto (author of Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch, Goodbye Eri, etc) got banned off Twitter for impersonating his imaginary little sister (long story).
After, setting up a new Twitter account, he sends out a bunch of tweets in an attempt to verify his identity as Tatsuki Fujimoto.
This one is the most fascinating to me.
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If you didn't know 「おかえりアリス」 / Okaeri Alice / Welcome Back, Alice is a pyschological manga by Shūzō Oshimi - the same mangaka as Blood on the Tracks, Inside Mari, and The Flowers of Evil.
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While Okaeri Alice might have a lot of funny moments and is primarily advertised as a "sex comedy", it is an incredibly fucked-up manga that explores gender, puberty, and identity.
The basic plot is that this boy named Yohei has a crush on his childhood friend named Mitani. However, Yohei's love is unrequited because Mitani has a crush on Yohei's male childhood friend Kei. Kei moves away during middle school, while Mitani and Yohei have ceased communication all together.
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Shit gets real when they all reunite in high school. Kei comes back dressed looking like a woman - claiming to have given up manhood (while not wanting to be a woman). It is also discovered that Kei had a crush on Yohei - completing the love triangle.
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The rest of manga is spent having Yohei getting sexually harassed by both of his childhood friends.
Kei's doing it because they like Yohei. Mitani's doing it to get back at Kei. And all the while, Yohei is suffering at the hands of his confusing male puberty.
If you know anything about Tatsuki Fujimoto, you know he loves getting dominated by girls - so this manga is right up his alley 🎳. Fujimoto is also no stranger to exploring gender in his own manga (for example, he wrote a trans male character in Fire Punch).
So yeah, this is the funniest manga this year- according to Tatsuki Fujimoto. I think this is a pretty good clue indicating that this is indeed Fujimoto's real twitter account.
So when are we getting an anime adaptation of Okaeri Alice
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shingerion · 2 years
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welcome back alice
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memory-echo · 10 months
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To Leave or not to Live
There’s been a lot of confusion over the latest chapters. After Seiko falls down the stairs, Seiichi takes it upon himself to take care of her. The question on the tip of everyone’s tongue is ‘why’. Why does he go through all the trouble of taking care of Seiko, given their history...?
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If this is to be taken literally, this is as good as a DNR. It's not like she signs a document or anything, and it's not even like "she’s right in the head" to make this kind of decision for herself, but if you take this seriously, she's not very keen on living. Not surprising, since she was never very keen on living, anyway.
For context sake: the year before, Seiko told Seiichi all about her crappy childhood and he realized the truism that hurt people hurt people, and left. He continued to pay for her rent, but they didn't contact each other for over a year, and he started to live his life in a much more positive manner. All good, so far. Then she falls off the stairs and he's sucked back into the madness.
So, why is he taking care of his mother, after she told him that she didn’t want him to do anything? Does he think he can build a more positive relationship with her? 
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I’ve read comments of people who think this line is menacing. It could easily go both ways: it could be “there's no way out for you, but don't worry, I won't let you die alone” or it could be “so, you want to die? I will force you to live, then”, but I don't think it's either of those.
Rather, both interpretations or possibilities are predicated on a lie. The fact is that Seiko just isn't there anymore; she's just a bag of bones. If Seiichi wants to start a new positive relationship, it's too late for that. If he wants some kind of revenge for what she did to him, she's not there to feel guilty or remorseful or anything, really, her brain isn't there at all. I don't know what he's trying to do, but whatever it is, he's just wasting his time and money.
I think this has nothing to do with revenge. When he hears about her accident, he imagines that it's karma for trying to kill his cousin. It has nothing to do with the fact that she abused him for 13 years. Also, what kind of revenge includes this? 
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Wasting money on rent, spending resources on food and adult diapers doesn't seem like revenge to me. One could argue that it's the exact same situation as it was in the past: Seiko had complete power over her son and now the tables have turned. But you know what the difference is? Seiko used her husband's money to keep control over her son, she used his resources to show how dissatisfied she was about her life. There was no self-sacrifice, though, it wasn't her money, which makes it very Machiavellian of her to use her husband's resources to hurt him.
Seiichi is using his hard-gained salary (which I can't imagine is very high) to take care of a person he could easily abandon in her own apartment or smash her skull in while she was taking a bath... That would’ve been the end of all his problems!
Instead, he does this.
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Changing diapers and imagining her as a toddler (that was an interesting imagery, by the way). Is he trying to correct the original wound that was inflicted onto her by her own parents?! Again, that's not going to work. For all we know she's too demented to even be aware that the person taking care of her is her son. Even if he gives her first class treatment, she doesn't know who he is. If there is some remnant of consciousness she said she didn't want to live, so...
In a way, he has been taking care of his mother his entire life since he was parentified by Ichiro. That was the problem in the first place, that he always felt responsible for his mother's misery, so this really isn't a change of pace for him. When he was a kid, he wasn't changing diapers, but he was lying to the police about the attempted murder, which, by the way, she seemed to have secretly wanted him to confess the truth, if you go by her expression...
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In the end, the story repeats itself: she never loved him or wanted him, and all Seiichi ever wanted was his mother's love, which he’ll never get.
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konodis · 2 years
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Shūzō Oshimi’s work
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boymagicalgirl · 5 months
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I just read Aku no Hana in like 2 hours and I have questions and thoughts. Any fans of it, please weigh in and tell me if anything I’m saying means anything or if it’s just the ramblings of a madman.
I felt this story was an explanation of what it means to be happy and to grow up. Kasuga was someone with no backbone. He did what he was “supposed to do” cause that’s what society says. However, Nakamura brought something out in him. She brought out his grossest impulses.
I felt like Kasuga was just projecting on both Nakamura and Saeki. His relationship with Saeki represented his desire for a “normal” life. However his relationship with Nakamura represented his desire for more, an other side, something more than the rusted metal and stagnation in Gunma. And if things went wrong, Nakamura would take the blame cause Kasuga “wasn’t the type to do things like that”.
But, in the end, nothing changed. Nobody was able to change anything and Nakamura and Kasuga were nothing special.
It was an interesting examination into why people do the things they do and whether it’s their own choices or just what’s expected of them.
The second half of the story felt like an answer to the first. While Kasuga couldn’t find an other side or save Nakamura, he can still move on and find contentment. He can move on from being the angry, manic, 14 year old and mature, grow up. He moved on from the scrap metal of Gunma, mentally and literally with being in Saitama and getting to know Tokiwa. And he was finally able to make his own decisions, figure out what he wanted rather than being pushed by Nakamura or Saeki.
Like I said though PLEASE any Aku no Hana fans help me out. I am just.confused and bouncing ideas off of a wall.
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vampiremageyuri · 7 months
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Read Volume 5 of Welcome Back Alice. Shuzo Oshimi is one of those rare writers who though none of the characters quite align with my own experiences of course, it's as if they, at least more than one of them, and the writing in general speaks to me. I believe that his work should be studied in literature and queer literature classes and that his work should be so much more well known not so much for the sake of being known or popular but for all the queer people out there, of all ages, that would be helped, aided by, and need his works from the beautiful to the continuingly trying times.
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celestialmega · 2 years
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Boku wa Mari no Naka, inside Mari, ぼくは麻理のなか, 我在麻理体内 by Shūzō Oshimi.
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hiyokoluvs · 1 year
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koharusann · 1 year
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"ハピネス" {Happiness} [Shūzō Oshimi]
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cabalt · 2 years
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Shotgunned Flowers of Evil and Blood on the Tracks over the last few days, as well as Happiness and a bunch of other Oshimi Shuzo one shots and such, but mainly comparing Flowers and Blood because they have the most similar themes (?)
I gotta say, despite a strong start I feel that Blood on the Tracks really starts to drop off, not because I wanted a "nice" ending or anything, but because the longer it goes on the more it feels like misery for the sake of it rather than trying to say anything. Like, there was no reason for Shige to show up in the snow other than for something bad to happen. The timeskip especially is just... Why?
On the other hand, Flowers of Evil kept consistent the whole way through, and while not supposed to be the same level of psychological horror that Blood is going for, it's examinations of psychology and behaviour are very interesting and the characters really feel "real", and in contrast to Blood, the timeskip in Flowers actually enhances things.
Just havin some thoughts about some "big" psychological manga rather than my usual shonen shite lmao
Also, Happiness would have been better without all the torture. Like said above, didn't add anything, felt Hostel-tier :/
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