Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

No Longer Human by Junji Ito

21 reviews

zombie_loves_books's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

As always Junji Ito's art is astonishing! I doubt I would have been able to read this otherwise.

A person you come to hate pretty fast going through a never ending spiral of momentary content quickly followed by self-imposed dispare that almost always leads to  death of a mostly innocent party. Even being haunted by those he wronged he never acknowledged his part in it and instead justifies everything in his own mind, blames the victims and just women in general.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug abuse, Bullying, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

beastlybrooke's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Child abuse, Suicide, Ableism, Pedophilia, Child death, Rape, and Body horror

elharpwhy's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

nyankonii's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was one of the darkest, most challenging books I’ve ever read. It honestly stunned me. The art was phenomenal. This one focuses more on the horrors of real life. Much more like a drama, which I always think of as a subgenre of horror. Definitely check out the content warnings before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Addiction, Grief, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

owlribbon's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Death, and Vomit

sashaanauo's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

im a little surprised with how lowly im rating this novel (though i will say, ito's art is just as on point as always haha). it might have to do with having just read dazai's original novel of no longer human a few days ago, but did not feel as much of the emotional weight in this manga adaptation as I did the original. it goes for a very different approach, as it's an ito horror work, but I found it didn't do as much for me. I found the changes in the plot to take away from some of the parts I really loved from the original novel, and though i found yozo to be unlikeable in both novels, I related to yozo's dissociation and pain in dazai's work and just found ito's to be irredeemable. i do think that ito's artwork really did visualize some of the moments profoundly well. i also did really appreciate the more monsterous adaptations of some of yozo's interpretations of people and memory. it felt like it honored the way his brain interpreted events, which was great. however, in dazai's work, some of the moments of yozo's life seem too abstracted by memory for him to comprehend or process properly. i found the illustrations of those moments to be too direct and less abstracted. I'll have to think on it more, and possibly reread it to see if my feelings on it change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Suicide, Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny

kingdamian345's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Well, that happened 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Blood, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Death, Dementia, Gaslighting, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide, Addiction, Child abuse, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

mercurial's review against another edition

dark

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, and Suicide

pseudolain's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Rape, Sexual content, Incest, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, and Body horror

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Vomit, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Murder, and Mental illness