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輝け! 大東亜共栄圈

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An alternative history take on World War II, in which the fighting nations discover a way to turn women into giant-sized biomechanical weapons.

194 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

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Shintaro Kago

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Kago Shintarō ( 駕籠真太郎) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. Kano was born in Tokyo in 1969. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX. Since then his comics, usually short stories, have been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity around the world.
Kago specialises in ero-guro, a Japanese visual genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and grotesque body horror. Many of Kago's manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. His unique style has been called "fashionable paranoia".

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42 reviews
November 2, 2022
Non so bene come commentare questa lettura.
Disturbante, folle, bizzarra in modo fastidioso, il ché, essendo l’autore il signor Shintaro Kago, è del tutto plausibile.

In quanto donna è stato molto triste leggere e vedere tanta misoginia seppur artisticamente giustificabile. Tutto molto estremo, politicamente più che scorretto. In parte va bene così.
Forse è stato superato un limite, lo definirei un limite di eleganza perché sì, l’horror e il grottesco possono essere eleganti, e ciò è gran parte dovuto al continuo, assiduo ed estenuante riferimento alle feci.

Sia esse che la deformazione del corpo femminile, la sua esagerazione, il suo svilimento, il suo sfruttamento, che il patriottismo, sono i tre temi-cardine di tutto il volume, che non è altro che una raccolta di storie tutte collegate da uno sfondo bellico dal gusto ucronico.

Speravo di meglio, ma allo stesso tempo il modo in cui l’autore mi ha disarmata e nauseata mi fa apprezzare parzialmente l’opera.
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July 3, 2013
This was really bizarre and at times, disturbing. Essentially, it is a set of stories set in WW2 era Imperial japan. Due to some kind of freak meteor, the military has gained the power to enlarge women into giants. They then chop up the gants, and turn them into weapons. This contains a ton of scatology and body horror and for that reason is at times uncomfortable to read. That combined with the formalism and militarism of Imperial Japan makes this one of the strangest things ive ever read.
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