Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

No Longer Human by Junji Ito

85 reviews

nathiddles_106's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Murder

Minor: Body horror and Death of parent

bellajosephine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

I somewhat enjoyed this book, somewhat found it quite upsetting. The main character was very hateable but you also empathise with him to a degree(mostly in the early chapters when he’s a child/teenager).
 
It is also much less horror than I expected, far more just utilising horror and horror imagery to demonstrate mental illness/addiction and just horrible life choices.

The illustration was 11/10 as always with Junji Ito.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

hoosiercreek's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kelseysveen's review against another edition

challenging dark sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Murder

reclusivebookslug's review against another edition

I've hit such a gnarly reading slump that I just need to scrap my CRs and start anew.

I've read the original book by Dazai and think it's fantastic. This seems like a very faithful yet additive adaptation. I plan on returning to reread and actually finish this sometime in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide

barelyconcealed's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

3.25

Based off a autobiographical suicide note of a novel, this is a series of depressing moments following more depressing moments. It also has some of Ito's most visually stunning panels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Sexual assault

This contains graphic child sexual abuse content, based on the original authors stories of his own repeated abuse as a child.

jasmin_awoodun's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This was the first manga I read by Junji Ito, my favourite mangaka of all time, and on the third reread it's as powerful as ever. No Longer Human delves into the darkest parts of the human psyche, charting the unfortunate life of Yozo Oba, a damaged and deeply flawed individual who digs himself into a hole so deep it seems impossible to get out. Junji Ito's art style compliments the narrative beautifully, with some truly nightmare-inducing imagery. The manga also touches on the life of original author Osamu Dazai, with Oba and Dazai coming into contact at a crucial point in both their lives, and then again shortly before the end of Dazai's. A gripping story where just when you think things couldn't possibly get worse, they always do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, Police brutality, and Death of parent

somethinelse's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Stalking

Minor: Police brutality

weirdow's review against another edition

dark sad

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

3.5

Not a big fan of the story or characters, but Ito did a good job bringing his style of horror and art to the story in a way that complimented the original (a lot of changes to the story too)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

tangiblereads's review against another edition

I did not finish No Longer Human because I lost interest.  All the psychological analyzations and questioning about humanity was annoying.  Other than that Yozo is just going around sleeping with a lot of women, drinking, causing trouble for other people, and seeing ghosts.  I didn't care to continue another 300 pages of the same self destructive behavior.  However, the art work was good.  Very creepy images and lovely naked ladies.  Glad I did not read the original.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content