<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: This was written by the guy who gave us Lone Wolf and Cub!?
Review: After reading a good portion of the Lone Wolf and Cub books I was very curious to see what else Kazuo Koike had written. While Lone Wolf and Cub had very intelligent and interesting writing this book is totally childish (ex. The heroin pissing in the hero's eyes to wash away blood) and not worth a second glance. I read through the entire thing looking for some sort of redeming quality. There was none. The entire point of the book seems to be Rape and Showing the heroin naked as often as possible. Unless you are looking for several hundred pages of badly scripted porn I cannot recommend this book to anyone. I really hope this book is not an example of the rest of Kazuo's writing.
Rating:
Summary: disapointment
Review: After reading a good portion of the Lone Wolf and Cub books I was very curious to see what else Kazuo Koike had written. While Lone Wolf and Cub had very intelligent and interesting writing this book is totally childish (ex. The heroin pissing in the hero's eyes to wash away blood) and not worth a second glance. I read through the entire thing looking for some sort of redeming quality. There was none. The entire point of the book seems to be Rape and Showing the heroin naked as often as possible. Unless you are looking for several hundred pages of badly scripted porn I cannot recommend this book to anyone. I really hope this book is not an example of the rest of Kazuo's writing.
Rating: 
Summary: Weird series
Review: I contemplated long before writing this review, because the two reviewers before me have stated a good cause with WOUNDED MAN, but i still have the feeling they bought only the first WOUNDED MAN Manga book...In Short: There IS a redeeming quality later in the series...i think it starts with the bitter Backstory of Ibaraki and the cause of his revenge and his weird behavior - it was one of the strongest emotional pieces i ever read in a Comic Book...and thats exactly my point:
WOUNDED MAN is NOT clever, intelligent writing. Its rather a Greyhoundbus, that is coming with you at great speed and holy bananas, you're in the way...its a very rough, strong emotional story and concerning the genre...well it's a rather weird and oddly successful mix of high adventure and porn. I never saw something like this in any other media... If someone wants to compare this to LONE WOLF: Don't start. But you can see the differences. Even in LONE WOLF there were rather base and heavy erotic scenes, and the clever and intelligent writing of LONE WOLF was augmented by this rough emotional storytelling. You know WOUNDED MAN is the exact opposite of let's say ALAN MOORE WOrks...they tend to be very, very clever and intelligently constructed, but it lacks in emotion big time. WOUNDED MAN is full of emotion but it hasn't good a brilliant inner structure...even if the characters tend to be either very simplistic or godly crafted.
One of my favourite characters in WOUNDED MAN is Tamaki, a really evil woman...i mean she completely destroys Ibaraki and his girlfriend.
A really weird series. NOT for the weak hearted or conservatively minded, though...
Rating:
Summary: This was written by the guy who gave us Lone Wolf and Cub!?
Review: Imagine for a minute if John Waters and Andy Sidaris teamed up to make a movie. Now imagine if instead of producing a film they moved to Japan to create a really trashy manga. The end result would probably be something like Wounded Man. The whole thing is brimming with such insane amounts of misogynistic sex and violence I'm tempted to say it's one of those "so bad it's good" kitsch artifacts.
<< 1 >>
| 
