Screw-Style

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Today I bring you
Screw-Style~


Screw-Style


Story & Art: Tsuge Yoshiharu
Publisher: Seirindo
Rating: 18+
Synopsis: (mangaupdates.com) A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins...


Art Review: 1/5


I think this is the most crude style I've ever seen since I saw Crayon Shin-Chan. I'll give it to the author, it was indeed released in 1968 and it doesn't have that modern creepiness that today's horror and psychological manga have, but honestly the style was shit and probably scared me more than the actual story itself.


Story Review: I usually get a pretty good understanding of manga, even if to most people it makes absolutely no fucking sense. But this manga has even stumped me of all people. Firstly, the title. I'll be honest with you guys, I clicked on the manga thinking it was some ecchi I could have made fun of. But no, it's just this confusing manga. I really wonder what the title meant. Screw style, as in the fact that this guy's drawing talent is probably so terrible that he literally said 'Screw (art) style', and just used as a title to confuse people? The author said 'Screw writing style, let's just put a bunch of things that make no sense into a manga with no plot whatsoever?' The author really liked screws? (I really don't care how you interpret that phrase, honestly.) Oh well, in this manga, the title is the least of your problems in relation to how much this manga will 'screw' with your mind. Haha, get it? Screw? ..why does nobody laugh at those sorts of things? Moving along, the first line, the guy got a jellyfish bite that ripped a vein wide open. Since when do jellyfish BITE people? Even if they did, how is it that it didn't rip any muscles on your arm but it yanked out and ripped your veins? And I assume that because he got 'bitten' by a jelly fish he's on a beach, but it somewhat doesn't look like that as there a bunch of crucifixes with clothes on them. ..dangerous fashion statement? Some sort of pagan religion ritual? Christian nudist beach? As he's walking through these crucifixes he says that he's bleeding so much that he thinks that he might die. With him holding the 'injured arm' with the other and no blood it looks like he's just one of those people who are insecure about their bodies and cross their arms all the time. Just put on a bloody shirt, there are a bunch of them hanging around on the crucifixes right next to you. But now, thinking back to that jellyfish 'bite' when looking at his veins spewing blood (not really) I think to myself that the jellyfish must have the most precise bite as your veins are just flapping about with no other lacerations on your skin. This Guy (there's no name given I'm guessing): Please, if you have any heart take me to a doctor Random Business Man: Hm, I almost understand what you're getting at. What, is TG (acronyms!) speaking Gaelic? Cripes. And I know your desperate but at least stick to your story. While pleading for a doctor he says,"Look I'm getting pale with both hands up." Sir, aren't you supposed to be not moving your arm and holding the vein together? After not finding a doctor he gets on a train which is driven by a creepy kid. Wearing a cat mask. Sure, let's hop on this train, maybe he'll take us to Yurara and she'll grant us the wish of going home in one piece (for those of you unaware of great anime films, this is a reference from Spirited Away.) TG is 'dying', from what we understand, and he still has the gall to ask for a woman doctor? Stupid pervish bastard. The woman he asks is somehow figured out to be his mother. The way he said it just makes it seem like a creepy version of the Dr.Seuss story "Are You My Mother?" (I don't know about you guys but when that bird asks the train if it is it's mother I thought that it was a transformer and I screamed at the bird for it to move so it does not get eaten. Yes, I thought every robot was a transformer and believed they would eat people too. I was a weird kid, I know. And yes, I purposely went to find a reading of the story by the most unenthusiastic guy ever.) He asks a gynaecologist to operate on him? I'm widely under the impression that he has NO idea what the purpose of a gynaecologist is. I thought that with her statement "this is no place for men" I thought he would have been sent back into the village to suffer but for whatever reason, she gets turned on, strips and they start going at it. At the same time, she does some whackjob surgery on him. I know my knowledge on surgical procedures is not great at this time as I am only a student still but I'm pretty sure that you CAN'T just put a metal valve in between the cut veins and have it work properly. You're not Fran, quit trying to do impossible surgeries. And all of a sudden he's on a boat. I'M ON A BOAT MOTHERFUCKER! And it has the most shitty conclusion ever. Where he just sits there and says,"And so, whenever I tighten the screw, my arm goes numb." ...um, duh, the whore doctor told you that after she was done, if you tightened it, it would cut off all your circulation. This manga was clearly stupid, don't read it, it won't make ANY sense to you if you are not on a considerable amount of LSD.


1/10