Jigoku no Kisetsu: Gurolism Sengen

Gaping mouths filled with various bodily fluids, exposed and leaking pregnant stomachs, torn and stretched anal passages, pulsating body organs, severely bleeding and wide open vaginal entrances, mistreated amputee victims, etc. are all shown in great and unapologetic detail throughout this very stomach-churning and diabolically pleasing manga anthology. "Hell Season" is the infamous and ferociously hardcore collection of short stories by some of Japan's most talented and relentless manga extremists (aka wonderfully wretched perverts who can draw and create genuinely filthy yet imaginative situations). This collection includes several well-known and wicked guro manga artists, such as Shintaro Kago, Waita Uziga, Jun Hayami,and Henmaru Machino. Each story varies on effort and quality but they all are of the utmost depravity. This manga has in the last few years turned into somewhat of a test on how much one is able to stomach and handle sickeningly high amounts of twisted material. This anthology does not cop-out or soft-pedal its goal and focus. The quantity of horrific and surreal depictions of intensely violent and sexual acts involving much blood, gore, saliva, scat, and multiple other body secretions in this anthology is copious and plentiful. Lovers of pitch black comedy and appreciators of fantastically gruesome artwork, such as myself, will enjoy this fierce collection; they will find it wickedly entertainingly. Also, those who possess gnarly and vile tastes in pornography will like it as well. Everyone else will be alienated and should steer very far away in another direction, unless they actually plan to be open-minded and experiment with something that is ridiculously over-the-top. Overall, "Hell Season" is a solid collection of stories that all revel in disgusting severity. A nice sampling of many of the mangaka that work well in the small but harsh category known as ero guro nansensu (aka ero guro or guro). It is intricately drawn, queasily enjoyable, and a fine maximalist work of transgressive art in the format of manga. Eight Brutal and Messy Human Intestinal Extractions out of Ten.

When it comes to the genre of ero guro, Hell Season is one of its most extreme entries. This anthology collects short stories from some of the genre's most notable mangaka - Shintaro Kago, Uziga Waita and Jun Hayami - alongside more obscure ones; the only glaring omission here is any works of Suehiro Maruo. It also includes a few pages of bonus art by more underground artists. But as an introduction to the genre, it's probably the best; There's a wide variety of content here, but be warned - it's not for the weak of stomach. I mean, just about every taboo you canthink of is present and taken to its extreme. This book doesn't waste any time telling you either - it opens on a story about one woman's struggle with constipation, presented in full, nauseating color. There's another story about a girl watching her mother get vivisected alive, one about kids consumed by parasites, another about a girl who inexplicably grows holes all over. Suffice it to say, if you're morbidly curious and you're not going to be eating (or sleeping) for the next few days, it might be worth a read.

Edginess for the sake being edgy. On a general level, I don’t mind guro. I believe it can be artistic. It is an art movement/style, after all. Not this specific work though, not this one. There isn’t any artistic value. There is hardly any point in these stories. It’s just pure shock value. Not in any creative way too, just pretty generic stuff (for the genre). There is very little story for most of these, if any at all. Sure, it’s given that a one-shot won’t have much development, but when you give nine out of ten pages of your work to a repetitive explicitimagery there’s not much left to do. For an anthology by underground artists, I would expect more variety, but except for the last two stories that were kinda okay and for the guest illustrations that are just that – illustrations, not manga, the content really blended together into a mess without own identity. Even the one-shot by Kago Shintaro, an artists whose work I usually like, is an older work from his all edge no point period, so that isn’t saving this collection neither. Also, fair warning – tread carefully around the 7th chapter if you have trypophobia. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone outside those people that read guro only because they think pointless edginess is the good part. This certainly shouldn’t be your introduction to the genre. For that, try perhaps The Death Panda or Fraction. Maybe Lychee Light Club if you want something more lighter for the start.

This people have very deep traumas with sex, they see sexuality as disgusting, aberrant and disturbing, these authors must have some psychological problems that can draw manga maybe it is the only thing that makes them functional, because no psychiatrist or Psychoanalyst would let him leave without a lot of therapy and medication (I figured they would ask if they saw their mothers naked as children or their parents having sex or as a child they were raped or abused) Ok, jokes aside, I really do not recommend this to teenagers who are in puberty learning about sexuality, this could derail their sexual development.Only thestory of the Power Rangers is slightly interesting because of a criticism of the concept of Justice, but nothing that has not been done before and in better works, so it is not the story that redeems the anthology and the one that would make it worthwhile. It's a shame to read it, even among so much shit of mentally disturbed the last oneshot of Jun Hayami, interesting because one can notice a certain "ontological" "existential" The story of Jun Hayami Guchi Mu Kanata (Love Letter From Far Away) could go through a story by Thomas Ligotti (or one of Junji Ito but with sex, Ito also has a problem with sexuality although he is less explicit)