MPD-Psycho 1

MPD-Psycho 1

Softcover
2.84

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MPD-Psycho, the most-requested manga series in recently memory, has found a fitting home at Dark Horse Manga, where it will be presented uncut and uncensored in all of its controversial and unflinchingly grotesque glory! If Takashi Miike's MPD-Psycho television series still has you confused and reeling, the original manga series that inspired the show is sure to take you on a longer, darker journey into madness. Enjoy the 11-volume MPD-Psycho series for all of its absurd twists, sci-fi touches and inventive torture scenes, but you'll also be mesmerized by the plethora of odd conspiracies and case files found in Otsuka and Tajima's uncontrollable, urban horrorshow. In MPD-Psycho Volume 1, police detective Kobayashi Yousuke's life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something "special" about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi's wife and kick-starts a "multiple personality battle" within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces. Earning praise for its consistently shocking plotlines and Tajima's clean, arresting art style, MPD-Psycho is the manga event of the decade!

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Format
Softcover
Pages
180
Price
89.61 €

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My thoughts while reading: wtf...WTF...wtf... (keeps reading)

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This could have been the review of a 3-star or higher manga story where a skilled serial killer assists the police in unraveling heinous crimes. Unfortunately, what I found instead was a poorly executed setup with a promising premise buried under weak storytelling. The dissociative identity disorder (misleadingly portrayed as "multiple personality disorder") is handled clumsily, and the supporting characters lack any depth or engagement. On its own, the lackluster narrative and mediocre execution might have warranted 2 or 3 stars as a forgettable read. However, after reflecting further, I feel compelled to lower my rating to one star. The reason is simple: I'm utterly exhausted by stories that rely on exploitative shock value at the expense of women. Across these first chapters 200 pages, every victim from various serial killers shares the same disturbing pattern: they are naked, heavily sexualized, mutilated, and inevitably raped women. Their lifeless bodies are depicted with blank, objectified gazes, reducing them to little more than props for gore and titillation. This relentless and gratuitous focus on violence against women isn't just lazy storytelling it's a choice for a certain audience that needs to leave the basement. I'm tired of media that leans on shocking gore and sexual violence on the back of women as its sole selling point. It's not bold, it's not groundbreaking it's just boring. I have no issue with gore, just with feeding into a larger issue that way. This chapter squanders its potential in favor of exploitation, and I can't recommend it to anyone.

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