Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show Paperback – January 14, 1993

Great Manga - Definitely not for the queasy. The Anime short follows the book to a T. So if you have already seen it, it's still worth getting if you'd like to read it, too.

Amazingly weird and twisted! Beautiful art and thank you for the fast shipping! the book was in great condition.

Weird and fascinating. A rare vintage manga gem!

Suehiro Maruo, Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show (Blast, 1992)Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show was the first of Suehiro Maruo's manga to be translated into English, and it's pretty easy to see why he developed a cult following among extreme horror fans almost overnight. From the opening panels of this twisted, disturbing graphic novel, Maruo is going to go for the gut. You're probably going to like it for the images alone. Which is good, because the story is told in impressionist form, to the point of losing a good deal of the story (an old folk tale about a girl tricked into becoming the slave of a sideshow) in the process. Granted, some of that could be happening in the translation, but I doubt it; pages of panels would have to be intercut for a truly faithful retelling of the folk tale.Still, it's a very pretty thing, as long as extreme gore fits your definition of pretty. *** ½

Suehiro all the way baby!

one of the best contemporary graphic novels

a bit hard to fallow i dont think it was set up well

love it!