Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show
Product ID: 9073055
The series is about an orphan girl named Midori, whom is taken in (enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks. Review: love it! - Amazingly weird and twisted! Beautiful art and thank you for the fast shipping! the book was in great condition. Review: Very good! - Great Manga - Definitely not for the queasy. The Anime short follows the book to a T. So if you have already seen it, it's still worth getting if you'd like to read it, too.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 33 Reviews |
G**Z
love it!
Amazingly weird and twisted! Beautiful art and thank you for the fast shipping! the book was in great condition.
C**H
Very good!
Great Manga - Definitely not for the queasy. The Anime short follows the book to a T. So if you have already seen it, it's still worth getting if you'd like to read it, too.
W**X
Weird but wonderful!
Weird and fascinating. A rare vintage manga gem!
R**E
Surreal and lovely.
Suehiro Maruo, Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show (Blast, 1992) Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show was the first of Suehiro Maruo's manga to be translated into English, and it's pretty easy to see why he developed a cult following among extreme horror fans almost overnight. From the opening panels of this twisted, disturbing graphic novel, Maruo is going to go for the gut. You're probably going to like it for the images alone. Which is good, because the story is told in impressionist form, to the point of losing a good deal of the story (an old folk tale about a girl tricked into becoming the slave of a sideshow) in the process. Granted, some of that could be happening in the translation, but I doubt it; pages of panels would have to be intercut for a truly faithful retelling of the folk tale. Still, it's a very pretty thing, as long as extreme gore fits your definition of pretty. *** ½
B**S
Five Stars
Suehiro all the way baby!
R**R
Five Stars
one of the best contemporary graphic novels
L**A
Two Stars
a bit hard to fallow i dont think it was set up well
D**Y
Five Stars
love it!
M**O
Five Stars
A classic masterpiece. Maruo at his best
W**N
Amazing :)
I liked the story and artwork. Price is good for this hard to find manga. Definitely for adults.
A**R
Five Stars
Perfect
A**E
Guter Manga, leider beschädigt
Ist leider beschädigt angekommen obwohl ich extraein neues Exemplar bestellt habe. Aber der Manga an sich ist großartig und subtil gestaltet, ein Geheimtipp mit fast schon künstlerischem Anspruch.
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