Personally, I was quite surprised by Midori. If anything, the act featured is only detrimental to children and as anyone with a brain has figured out, this isn't for children at all. Now, what is on display here is rather shocking but certainly not enough to be considered obscene, especially considering the psychopathic nature of the character which performs the act. One of the things that most people comment on when reading on Midori is that it was actually banned originally for depicting graphic violence to animals. "Midori" is not hentai and it's not traditional manga, it's totally unique and, for those who appreciate ventures into the psyche's darkest passages, it is a well of perverse riches. The music is amazing and Harada's drawings possess a raw finish that contributes to the feeling that we are witnessing a tale growing organically from the film frame. Ultimately, this is art that finds humanity in degradation and love in malice. The content is graphic in parts as it features animal mutilation, underage sex, gory dismemberment, and gloriously lurid imagery of freaks and deformed humans. The animation is limited in terms of movement, but it is an entirely original interpretation of Maruo's sizzling source material. Harada spent five years completing every drawing himself for what would ultimately make up this fifty-two minute labor of love. Arashi proposes to Midori and offers her protection from the freaks who have been using her as their domestic slave and sexual plaything. Arashi, a dwarf who imprisons himself in bottles and escapes confinement like a vapor. She is beaten, raped, and exposed to hideous displays of exhibitionism and cruelty. After young Midori loses her parents, she takes refuge in a freak show with living mummies, human torsos, and sexual degenerates. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show", one of the strongest ero-gro mangas ever conceived. As a devotee of the grotesque and the grotesquely beautiful, I was so excited to see Harada's filmization of Suehiro Maruo's "Mr. Until very recently, it was not available on VHS or DVD anywhere in the world. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Director/animator Hiroshi Harada originally toured this amazing work across Japan with real freak shows and exhibitions of deformities. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers
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