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A SF/horror manga that takes place in 2200. At a chicken manufacturing company, a certain chicken transforms into a supermutant named Chicken George. And so, a nightmarish journey through a twisted version of the future unfolds.
316 pages, Paperback
First published July 17, 2001
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Kazuo Umezu
136 books309 followersKazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz was a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of horror manga and has been vital for its development, considered the "god of horror manga". In 1960s shōjo manga like Reptilia, he broke the industry's conventions by combining the aesthetics of the commercial manga industry with gruesome visual imagery inspired by Japanese folktales, which created a boom of horror manga and influenced manga artists of following generations. He created successful manga series such as The Drifting Classroom, Makoto-chan and My Name Is Shingo, until he retired from drawing manga in the mid 1990s. He was a public figure in Japan, known for wearing red-and-white-striped shirts and doing his signature "Gwash" hand gesture.
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October 20, 2024
Full series review:
Sometimes I remember isolated plot points from this series and briefly wonder if they're detritus from a nightmare before remembering that no, 14 actually did have a scene where a gladiator rapes another before starting to absorb him. It's actually incredible how weird this manga gets, considering how long it is. Most start to collapse once they hit a critical weirdness threshold, but 14 keeps going and going, never letting up. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, but if you want to see what Umezu Kazuo is really capable of, this is it.
Sometimes I remember isolated plot points from this series and briefly wonder if they're detritus from a nightmare before remembering that no, 14 actually did have a scene where a gladiator rapes another before starting to absorb him. It's actually incredible how weird this manga gets, considering how long it is. Most start to collapse once they hit a critical weirdness threshold, but 14 keeps going and going, never letting up. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, but if you want to see what Umezu Kazuo is really capable of, this is it.
December 14, 2017
The graphic novel, "Fourteen" is about a scientist who works at a chicken plantation, a chicken man, and other less important people. While working on the plantation as an researcher, the scientist notices an eyeball in the chicken cell grower. He grabs it out and puts it in a secrete place. His co-worker tries to find out about what is going on by trapping him in a gas room so that he would come out and everyone would see the chicken. The scientist puts the chicken in a bag and hides it at his house. The chicken man tries to kill everyone.
The theme of this story is that people should stop harming animals for food to live or else a chicken man will kill us all in fourteen days after it's born. Examples of this are even the dogs were going extinct and people were running out of food then chicken guy came and killed people. Another example is if we keep killing animals we will have to eat artificial chicken like most people do at McDonald.
MY opinion on the book was that it really sucked. It was incredibly boring and nothing seemed to interest me. The part about a chicken evolving into a man was the only part that was interesting. I would not recommend it to anyone.
The theme of this story is that people should stop harming animals for food to live or else a chicken man will kill us all in fourteen days after it's born. Examples of this are even the dogs were going extinct and people were running out of food then chicken guy came and killed people. Another example is if we keep killing animals we will have to eat artificial chicken like most people do at McDonald.
MY opinion on the book was that it really sucked. It was incredibly boring and nothing seemed to interest me. The part about a chicken evolving into a man was the only part that was interesting. I would not recommend it to anyone.
Did not finish
June 20, 2024DNF chapter 16.
Might come back to this in the future.
Might come back to this in the future.
February 17, 2017
I don't know why I keep reading manga by Umezu as though it'll eventually improve. None of it is good. This is bad enough that it borders on being funny, and probably would have been improved if it was consciously humorous. The plot is totally ridiculous and unbelievable. Literally the villain of the first part of the book is a guy named "Chicken George" who is a chicken-humanoid. The drawing is like low budget early 90s manga, which it is. I would have actually finished it because of how over the top campy it is, but its pointlessly drawn out as well. Idk why. To sell more issues? Who cares. I lost my patience with this series at around the halfway mark.
December 19, 2015
Review is for whole series I guess
Oh man. I don't even know what so say about this. Ohhhh my god it was ridiculous. Oh my god. I don't think I'll ever get some of these images out of my head.
It started off not bad, and then I had to read like 200+ chapters of... i don't even know what to call it. Oh my god. This was just too much for my dainty heart.
Maybe one day I'll forget it ever happened.
(Also, I really wish that marijuana subplot was expanded because that was hilarious)
Oh man. I don't even know what so say about this. Ohhhh my god it was ridiculous. Oh my god. I don't think I'll ever get some of these images out of my head.
It started off not bad, and then I had to read like 200+ chapters of... i don't even know what to call it. Oh my god. This was just too much for my dainty heart.
Maybe one day I'll forget it ever happened.
(Also, I really wish that marijuana subplot was expanded because that was hilarious)
July 28, 2022
What an interesting concept. This was written around 95 to 00's so Japan was going through a transformation on the society that started in the 80's. If you see some OVAS from that time the theme is always the same. A bleak universe due to corporativism and black ops stuff, the majority of humankind living in proverty and violence going rampage.
Yes, today is a bit different but some stuff stays the same...
What can I say about this, basically imagine that we start growing food out of vat tubes... instead of massive chicken killer zones you just breed the chicken breasts, or wings or foots or whatever. But as you may have learn in science - life always creates a way to never give up and throws a curve ball. There are documented instances of animals changing because of extinction; now imagine those vat's created life? Well here you go... Now imagine that life becomes smarter and started to get revenge from humanity destruction of nature? Well I am game for it and rooting for Chicken George...
This first one really flows... It's not horror but more thriller and the horror is more Lovecraftian and less jumpscare. I will keep reading of course.
Yes, today is a bit different but some stuff stays the same...
What can I say about this, basically imagine that we start growing food out of vat tubes... instead of massive chicken killer zones you just breed the chicken breasts, or wings or foots or whatever. But as you may have learn in science - life always creates a way to never give up and throws a curve ball. There are documented instances of animals changing because of extinction; now imagine those vat's created life? Well here you go... Now imagine that life becomes smarter and started to get revenge from humanity destruction of nature? Well I am game for it and rooting for Chicken George...
This first one really flows... It's not horror but more thriller and the horror is more Lovecraftian and less jumpscare. I will keep reading of course.
December 13, 2017
This is a horror book set in a large underground city. In this city there is a chicken manufacturing company that uses chicken breast cells to make chicken because they are running out of the actual animals. One day a scientist discovers a chicken breast with an eyeball in it. This later grows into a humanoid chicken that decides humans are jerks to animals, and wants to kill all of them.
The theme for this book is tough. I think it is that people shouldn't be what the world wants them to be, they should be what they want. The whole book is an example of this. Chicken George thinks at first that he was made to be eaten because he is a chicken breast cell, but later decides that he was made to exterminate the humans and free the animals. He is defying what the world thinks of him.
I really liked this book. The author dealt with horror themes really well, along with some disturbing imagery, which made it all the scarier. The themes were disturbing and interesting, and it makes you view the world a little differently. The author made me not want to put the book down, and the only reason I didn't give it five stars is because the universe was confusing, which was really good at times, but dry at others. But all in all it was a pretty good book.
The theme for this book is tough. I think it is that people shouldn't be what the world wants them to be, they should be what they want. The whole book is an example of this. Chicken George thinks at first that he was made to be eaten because he is a chicken breast cell, but later decides that he was made to exterminate the humans and free the animals. He is defying what the world thinks of him.
I really liked this book. The author dealt with horror themes really well, along with some disturbing imagery, which made it all the scarier. The themes were disturbing and interesting, and it makes you view the world a little differently. The author made me not want to put the book down, and the only reason I didn't give it five stars is because the universe was confusing, which was really good at times, but dry at others. But all in all it was a pretty good book.
December 2, 2019
I honestly don’t know what the hell I just read. All of his other manga series have been a lot of fun, but this was just really weird. It wasn’t even a ‘so weird and bad that it’s good’ type of situation. I think I was expecting something more in the vein of straight horror and I was a bit taken aback by whatever sci-fi plot I got instead. I even read a little bit of the second volume to see if it got better and I just feel like this isn’t for me.
July 5, 2018
Me dio vergüenza ajena este manga. No sólo la historia se pasa de ridícula sino que está muy mal ejecutada. Nada de lo pasa o dicen tiene sentido. Y el arte es muy malo.
Hay un pollo humanoide llamado Chicken George, eso lo resume todo.
Hay un pollo humanoide llamado Chicken George, eso lo resume todo.
January 9, 2025
I'd say this didn't have strong character development, but Chicken George did go from a floating eye in a vat of genetically engineered chicken breast goop to a professor at Cambridge University in only 300 pages. Hard to argue with that level of gumption!
May 24, 2020
Quite of a weird manga, I liked the different art style in this manga and the story was ok and confusing 🤯😁👌❤️❤️
October 26, 2020
ESTO ES EXTREMADAMENTE FALOPA, ME VUELVO LOCO.
October 1, 2022
A very dark, grim, hopeless future where humanity did not change its ways.
February 12, 2024
Una ida de olla de manga que es super atrapante. Kazuo Umezu ya me entretuvo un montón con su imprescindible "Aula a la deriva" donde un colegio entero con usus niños y profes acababan en una dimensión alternativa donde el mundo habia desaparecido por una catástrofe nuclear.
En esta ocasión nos encontramos un manga con una de las historias más bizarras que he leido:
En el futuro los seres humanos han extinguido a gran parte de la fauna y han experimentado creando animales nuevos. El alimento proviene de granjas de pollos donde se mutan para abastecer a la gente.
Pero algo sale mal y un pollo mutante e inteligente aparece: Chicken George.
Chicken George buscará vengarse del ser humano y extinguirlo con diferentes tretas y maquinaciones.
A partir de aquí el caos y el despiporre: naves con forma de dinosaurio, clones con forma de giardaespaldas americano, niños con forma de muñeca chochona con superpoderes y el pelo verde clorofila, una malo hipermutado que se va derritiendo y exige jovenes para alimentarse y mil y una rayadas más con un final digno de elogio. Porque finalizar esta locura en la que nunca sabes que barbaridad va a aparecer en el siguiente número tiene mérito.
Un cómic hipnótico, no sólo por lo sorprendente de su argumento, que nunca sabes por donde va a tirar si no porque el dibujo clásico y gore es una pasada.
En esta ocasión nos encontramos un manga con una de las historias más bizarras que he leido:
En el futuro los seres humanos han extinguido a gran parte de la fauna y han experimentado creando animales nuevos. El alimento proviene de granjas de pollos donde se mutan para abastecer a la gente.
Pero algo sale mal y un pollo mutante e inteligente aparece: Chicken George.
Chicken George buscará vengarse del ser humano y extinguirlo con diferentes tretas y maquinaciones.
A partir de aquí el caos y el despiporre: naves con forma de dinosaurio, clones con forma de giardaespaldas americano, niños con forma de muñeca chochona con superpoderes y el pelo verde clorofila, una malo hipermutado que se va derritiendo y exige jovenes para alimentarse y mil y una rayadas más con un final digno de elogio. Porque finalizar esta locura en la que nunca sabes que barbaridad va a aparecer en el siguiente número tiene mérito.
Un cómic hipnótico, no sólo por lo sorprendente de su argumento, que nunca sabes por donde va a tirar si no porque el dibujo clásico y gore es una pasada.
March 16, 2014
its okay
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