Manga like Paranoia Star

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Status: Finished

Collection of short stories by Maruo.

It's almost impossible to summarize them, most of them aren't really plot driven but they deal with abnormal states of the mind and are permeated by a general surrealism.

As in many of this works, he shows references to the art and culture of 1920s and 1930s Japan and Germany which had inspired his own artistic style.

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Denki Ari: Waga Bunretsu no Hanasaku Toki (電気蟻＜吾が分裂の華咲く時＞)
Gansaku: Denki Ari (贋作・電気蟻)
Ishi no Shouri (意志の勝利)
Hokenshitsu no Kyuuketsuki (保健室の吸血鬼)
Nihonjin no Wakusei (日本人の惑星)
Genpin (玄牝)

Tags: Ero Guro , War , Military , Gore , Body Horror , Foreign , Robots , Tragedy , Historical

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Watashi wa Shingo

Also known as My Name is Shingo.

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sci-Fi

When an industrial robot named Monroe begins to work at his father’s factory, Satoru is fascinated. As he and his friend Marin spend more time with Monroe, they start to suspect there’s much more to the machine than anyone else realizes. But neither children nor adults are prepared for Monroe’s violent awakening into consciousness.

Tags: Robots , Anthropomorphism , War , Artificial Intelligence , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Seinen , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Tragedy

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VIZ

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Kyuusai no Hi

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style.

A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there...

Tags: War , Philosophy , Denpa , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist

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