10.17.2009

Jun Hayami - Hentai Shounen

About the movie, I'll be uploading it during this night so it should be up here tomorrow, along with something else I got in the email today.

But anyway, on to the post. It has been a long time since I posted something from this peculiar man. Lets get things strait, most people will find this very offensive so don't read it unless you are into guro, and I mean some serious guro. :P

Now what exactly is supposed to be offensive? Well I find this word kinda ironic. Especially since there are bands who supposedly support death and destruction but when asked about the holocaust and the nazi regime they do not wish to be connected with them. As if its offensive, it will give them a bad name. But they promote death and destruction. And there aren't a lot of nations who did so effectively. So why not support them? But nazism is offensive so they childishly avoid it because it will hurt their sales and venues won't ask them to play.

What all this has to do with this manga? Well, this manga, and this artist in general, is possibly the most direct and most perverse of all guro artists that I have come across. There's no political correctness here nor the attempt to dodge the "offensive" themes. It's not all drawn so pretty and user friendly like what Uziga does nor it's artistic as Maruos works are. This is just a direct slap to the face of everything that's considered to be moral and good. Hentai Shonen looks like a compilation of all the perverse needs that this author has. It does not matter if its a decapitated leg or table masturbation (it was quite funny to read it though) it tells the story so absurdly that you can't help but to wonder what the hell this man is thinking. Not to mention that the main character is named after the author so he might have actually done some of those things in reality (there's a rumor circulating that this author is in insane asylum, but that's just rumors).

I'm sure all the cool kids will be all over this just to show how sick they are. I don't read it for such purposes. I read it for other purposes. And no, I won't tell you why because I don't really have the need defend myself. You will either like this or hate it. It's up to you to decide.

Another thing I find very interesting is how people react to this. I don't really try to hide the fact that I read and watch shit like this to people. I find it entertaining to see how they will react. It's entertaining because media like this is everywhere. Have you ever read any Cannibal Corpse lyrics? Yet they are an world wide popular band signed to some major record company. They sing about killing in very brutal details but no one seems to have a problem with it that much anymore. It's a trend nowadays to be like that anyway. Another example are the Saw series. But when it's so direct and so honest like this one it's suddenly offensive? In fact his newest book had to be published only as an ebook because there was no printing company in the whole USA and Japan that wanted to print it. How absurd is this? Well I'm going a bit off topic. I might debate this a little more further in another post.

Very explicit content (read at your own risk, don't cry about it in the comments):

7 komentari:

Roger Camden kaže...

humanity, when depicted honestly, is offensive

read the guro
some thoughts:

that this seems so personal, even auto-biographic, makes this a little more unsettling than other guro (ero-guro?) manga.

I'm reminded of the popularity of true crime books and television programs
people will marvel at profiles of serial killers and wonder, "how could these men exist?" yet never seem to accept that they did exist (and in a larger sense, still do exist)
seems like people try to distance themselves from the gruesome and ugly while they steal glances from afar
murderers and rapists are put into a context where they seem unhuman, almost supernatural--
they are not different from the rest of humanity at all
everyone (birth defects excluded) is born with the same sets of stuff
murderers are people
rapists are people
the man who hides in the sewer below the lady's restroom?
-he's a person like the rest of us
our differences are outweighed by our similarities

e kaže...

i think the real issue with nazis is that todays nazis are insufferable faggots

Sean kaže...

Never feel teh need to justify to complete strangers what your interests are. Actions speak louder than merely reading guro manga for the thrill of horror...or the thrill of feeling something profound beyond what most sanitized western "horror" or "black metal" brings us. (though I despise homophobia and white trash violence in black metal...though Spear Of Longinus is the fuckin' shit!).

cjejons kaže...

First impressions: Odd. Fascinating. Disgusting. Sad. Familiar. Psycho. Sympathetic.

How hard it must be to be all alone. Appropriately expressed in a genre shunned by most.

I wonder what else may have shaped his mindset (?).

Thanks.

Justin kaže...

I liked it. You should upload this next http://www.allbookstores.com/book/9781840680942/Beauty_Labyrinth_of_Razors_Adult_Manga.html

Justin kaže...

correction: The link I provided was for Hayami's Beauty Labyrinth of Razors. It's available on most sites.

Anonimno kaže...

just wanted to ask you here do you watch and find all that stuff because man y got to admit you have got some real good thing