![]() ![]() Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show starts with it but there’s not much sex after that. Unlike Ultra Gash Inferno, which is full of gross explicit sex, Mr. The first few chapters set up Midori as a horribly abused slave, and then a new character is introduced who becomes the most popular performer in the show and begins a romantic, surprisingly non-explicit relationship with Midori. A girl named Midori of indeterminate age (probably young, though) is enslaved by a traveling circus sideshow which stars a snake woman, a mummy man, a human torso, a sword-swallower, a boy raised as a girl, and a couple other characters. Of the three books, this one has the only full story from Maruo, originally called “Camella Girl” in Japanese. While I like horror manga, and I certainly love Suehiro Maruo’s illustrations, I just can’t stomach the bizarre content of his stories… and his illustrations lose some of their effect when they’re sequential. We bought these two volumes around the same time as Ultra Gash Inferno in a fit of Maruomania, but I was mostly disappointed all around. To celebrate the fact I wheedled, bargained, pleaded, and begged my roommate’s copy of Comics Underground Japan into my possession, I reread both it and Mr. ![]()
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