Octopus Girl, Vol. 2

By Toru Yamazaki

Being able to change herself into a teenage head with octopus tentacles allows her to discover horrors in the ocean as well as in Japan. Octopus Girl and Sakae face satanic cults, pregnancy, death-trap elevators, violent family strife, and their own backbiting rivalry! Cutting a crass, comical niche into modern horror manga, Toru Yamazaki's Octopus Girlserves up the most disgusting dishes of heartbreak and revenge found on land or at sea, and these shocking vignettes will hypnotize fans of the macabre and the absurd!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593075405
• ISBN13: 9781593075408
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

SAKAE CAN BECOME HUMAN AGAIN

Takako has always had one leg.....uh, one tentacle up on Sakae because she could revert back to human form anytime she wanted. But when she saves a sea witch's pet, Sakae, too, is given the power to change back to human at will. The witch even included some fake teeth to cover up her razor-sharp needled fangs...even though they are a bucktoothed nightmare and might even look worse than her real ones! Plus, she still has that giant mole on her face which is constantly growing hairs which she refuses to pluck! So now both girls can appear close to normal and hold various jobs and attend school. But this wouldn't be Octopus Girl if things went smoothly. During the course of their travels, they run into Satanic cults, haunted campuses, serial killers, and even help deliver a baby! Octopus Girl is probably one of the wackiest and funniest manga I have ever read. It's completely disgusting and needlessly gory, but it all makes sense in a burlesque sort of way. The ultra realistic art by Yamazaki which illustrates completely UNrealistically endowed characters adds to the uniqueness of the book and at times his art reminds me of Goya. The comedy comes from the thought processes of these completely and thoroughly monstrous girls as they argue about things and take action on typical teenage problems but with atypically violent fashion which makes the word "absurd" an understatement. This may not fit every taste but is a great read.