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Title: MPD-Psycho Volume 1 (Mpd Psycho) Author: Eiji Otsuka and Sho-u Tajima Rating: Not available Avg. Score: 5 Submit Comment Hits: 50

Review of MPD-Psycho Volume 1 (Mpd Psycho)

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• Posted on 2008-10-05
  Why only women?
  
  Yes, It is excellent - stunning art and stunning story. My only quibble is...
  Why are only women explicitly cut up into erotic pieces? I will speek for women in saying : Let's see some naked men!
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-08-23
  SEX, DEAD BODIES AND DRUGS...OH MY!
  
  When I watched the DVD discs of Takashi Miike's "MPD Psycho," I thought the mini-series was pretty good at the time. However, I learned afterwards that those 6 episodes merely scratched the surface when it came to unveiling the intricate plotlines of this notorious and controversial manga series. Written by Eiji Otsuka and drawn by Shou Tajima, "MPD Psycho" is a twisted psychological and emotional crime thriller with heaping spoonfuls of gore horror and science fiction. Despite the fact that the series offers gratuitous scenes of violence and female nudity, it's anything but cheap exploitation. On the contrary, the dialogue-driven chapters are just as well executed as the ones on "Death Note," if not better! Not only are the characters illustrated with really fine lines and realistic contrasts of light and shadow, but the simplified use of rectangular panels makes the pages surprisingly easy to read.
  Volume #1 introduces readers to Kazuhiko Amamiya, a cool-headed homicide detective who gets hired by Machi Isono (a female criminologist) to work in a private research headquarters built within the confines of her apartment. Amamiya has multiple personality disorder, an illness which started several years ago when he lived under the name Yosuke Kobayashi (a sensitive police officer who got squeamish at the sight of chalk-lined cadavers). Back then, after his girlfriend was raped and left limbless by a lunatic aroused by decapitated bodies, Amamiya's third personality emerged in retaliation: Shinji Nishizono, a cold blood killer who doesn't hesitate to pull the trigger upon anyone. It's later on revealed that Kazuhiko possesses within him a fourth personality named Kiyoshi Murata. Finally, like several other crazed perpetrators of mass murder, cannibalism and sexual assault, Amamiya has a strange bar code tattooed on his left eye, and his name is registered on a mysterious organ bank's patient list.
  The first major case assigned to Kazuhiko, Machi and Tooru Sasayama (a clueless and bumbling profiler) involves Suguru Ueno, an architect who gets blood on his hands by cutting open the skulls of pretty young women and turning them into brain-dead flowerpots. During one televised interview arranged by Kikuo Toguchi (an ambitious free lance cameraman), Ueno reveals how he gained passionate but morbid inspiration from a counter-culture folk rock singer and psychedelic terrorist named Lucy Monostone (a Japanese equivalent to Charles Manson). But when Ueno goes missing and his corpse is eventually found planted near one of his own buildings, Machi is disturbed to learn that Kazuhiko's Nishizono personality may have murdered him...or has he??
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-06-10
  Manga Horror that Chills you to the Bone
  
  Otsuka and Tajima deliver well-crafted tales of madness in this short collection of Manga Horror, featuring a detective with multiple personalities. There is a lot of disturbing imagery, but each case is original and twisted in its own right, and makes for a riveting read. I couldn't put the book down until I had finished it. The art is also surprisingly good, and complements each story in black and white.
  Score: 4
• Posted on 2008-01-10
  Book like I've never read before...
  
  Not usually a manga fan, this is easily the most interesting book I've ever read, starting with the very last page. Literally. This book reads in the original Japanese way, reading from the back to the front, right to the left. Once you get the hang of that, it's an easy, and entertaining read. Very twisted, and not for the faint of heart though, with some of the most original methods of torture and death that I've seen. My only complaint is having to wait to receive the following volumes after reading this one. If you're going to get this, I HIGHLY recommend to just go ahead and purchase the other volumes. One other nice feature was that there are pages at the end of the book to clarify some things that aren't obvious to the average joe.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2007-07-05
  Psychologically Thrilling
  
  This is a fantastic series for fans of psychological horror and serial killers. It's something right out of Se7en mashed with anything out of the Hannibal series topped nicely with something genuinely original. The brutal madness and constant mind-bending storylines are beautifully tied together and keep the suspense from easing the deeper it goes.
  
  However, I extend this warning: It only gets more twisted from here, so I would recommend the weak of stomach to find something else to read.
  Score: 5