Franken Fran

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Sorry about missing the update last time.
Was a busy busy end of the week for me~
Anyway, today I shall bring you..
Franken Fran~


Franken Fran


Story & Art: Katsuhisa Kigitsu
Publisher: Champion Red Magazine
Rating: Mature (18+)
Synopsis: Fran is a girl created by the world's top biologist. She takes care of her creator's mansion while he is away on research. Her life is pretty uneventful, until many different medical cases begin falling in her lap. This manga is very graphic and frequently features scenes of extreme gore, as Fran begins to do more and more intense surgical procedures. There is a fair amount of black humour, as usually each story ends up with Fran having created some sort of gruesome monstrosity from her patients, while in the end answering to their requests - sometimes literally.


Art Review: 4/5

The design of the characters is pretty, at times. The gore is done horrifically well, and almost looks real. However, the page organisation ends up a bit cluttered at times and you don't know exactly what to look at, like you're in a candy store except there are organs flung everywhere (incidentally if you do walk into a candy store and that's what happened, I suggest you run, your sugar intake can take an hour or two off.)

(image from mangafox.com)

Story Review: This manga is truly only for the strong in heart, mind and stomach. Ironically if a weak person read this manga you would throw up your own esophagus as Fran replaces one in the manga (I don't recall her doing that before but you know what I mean.) Every chapter has at least one surgery in it, including biology that is far beyond what is physically possible. I'm in a advanced placement biology class and only half of the theories Fran actually says makes sense. Every chapter ends with black humour, which makes me smile, particularly because of Fran's aloof nature. Her determination to help every client makes it all the more better as the patient screams or dies horrifically because of the way they've been changed by Fran. As well as the black humour this manga has other traces of comedy, like on this page that I have here (it's not a spoiler, it's very early into the series.) [Grr, stupid picture, you are making me mad -sighs] Anyway, this is from Cosmetic Surgery, and I don't know about you but the sight of that girl made me laugh just a little, and I barely laugh at manga at all in general. This manga in its entirety is a chilling manga, with much introspection to human nature. Fran is so kind, yet with a slight sadistic streak. Okita is just a furry gone wrong, I mean, furries are wrong in the first place, but with this guy you're just doin' it wrong. He's a tiny cat with a human's head that is 2 times the size of the body. I mean when you get used to it, it's kinda cute, but still.. And Veronica's really cute. She just makes you wanna pick her up and snuggle her... SNUGGLE SNUGGLE SNUGGLE -gets decapitated by Veronica- All joking aside, this was a incredible manga, I really had fun reading it, and I'll warn you again, it's a bit NSFW, and it's not because every volume cover has Fran posing with a unbuttoned French blouse. The manga isn't even completely done, let's hope for a great ending of Franken Fran~


8.5/10