Ichi, the killer

STORY

The mad masochist Kakihara, the chief of Aso group, knows that his boss Aso was killed by a Shinjuku Kabukicho outcast group.
So he searches them, and drives them into the corner little by little.
The main character, Ichi, is a member of the outcast group, and is brainwashed by the group leader, Jiji.
Ichi is usually chicken and crybaby, but once he wears the battle suit, he turns to a killer machine that can easily kill the assassins from Kakihara.
This cartoon mainly goes with the two man, Ichi who is having an exclusive sadisms in his body, and Kakihara who is feeling ecstasy that he is been aimed by Ichi, including those two groups.

(Hideo Yamamoto/1998-2001/10 books/Shogakukan)

COMMENT by Shun

The story is about the battle of an armature Yakuza against real Yakuza, but that’s just the surface of this cartoon.
The real point of this cartoon is the extremely violent expression and weird sexual propensity.
For instance, the expression of spread blood and internal organs is just the beginning. The harder ones are the scenes that one tears off of other’s arms by his arms, or one divides other’s dick into two parts… horrible anyways.
Ichi gets ecstasy by homicide while Kakihara loves torturing and being tortured, and let’s get your eyes closer to their relations.
So many gross scenes are all around in the books, but it is exactly like this; “I don’t want to see them but they force my eyes to keep gazing.’
I can’t stop reading…
In short, it is very addicted.
This reminds me that we can’t stop eating the spicy food while we keep saying "this is so hot!"

Shun's Score 6