Homunculus 7 By Hideo Yamamoto

Nakoshi is literally the manga character embodiment of Patrck Bateman in American Psycho. Hideo Yamamoto 3.5 stars
I really am trying my best to rate each volume based on how much I liked them separately but I find it hard forgetting the events of the last two volumes when the protagonist is acting like nothing happened.

It's nice to see his past and the contrasts between his status back then and where he has ended up now, drawing parallels between him and the old man he used to see when looking out the window.

I'm happy we're exploring more of the homunculi and seeing different people's deformities because this time, we actually get explanations and they make sense. Hideo Yamamoto This manga series is about Nakoshi, a homeless man who underwent a surgical procedure by Ito, a young medical student, to unlock his sixth sense. Now, he can see homunculi, which are symbolic representations of a person's repressed unconscious. So far, the story has largely been about experimenting with the sixth sense and discussing the philosophy and psychology of the homunculi.

In Volume 7, we step away from the repulsive acts of Nakoshi in the previous two volumes and look at his past. From before he was homeless. This way of comparing him now to who he was before shows that while his perspective and treatment of some others have improved, he is still a dark and distorted character Hideo Yamamoto 3.5 stars. Hideo Yamamoto WOW. this is definitely a turn to a new ark and I am SOLD. swear it's so up and down with these volumes haha. Hideo Yamamoto

review Homunculus 7

Susumu è misterioso individuo, con un passato da nascondere e il vizio della menzogna. Ha un aspetto distinto, eppure è un senzatetto. Vive ai margini di un parco, residenza fissa di un gruppo di clochard, e sebbene spesso si unisca a loro, allo stesso tempo mantiene le distanze, dimostrando diffidenza verso chiunque. L’unica cosa a cui è legato è la sua macchina, una specie di ventre materno, di cui sente il morboso bisogno. E proprio per guadagnare i soldi necessari a riscattare l’amato veicolo, Susumu accetta di sottoporsi a un intervento chirurgico al cranio teso a destare i sensi sopiti dell’uomo. L’esperimento lo rende in grado di percepire grottesche visioni, che capisce essere la proiezione della psiche delle persone con cui spartisce qualcosa. Queste esperienze psico-somatiche risvegliano il doloroso passato di Susumu, che sebbene vorrebbe sfuggire ai propri fantasmi, capisce che affrontarli è l’unica soluzione che ha per smettere di tormentarsi. Homunculus 7

Peshku blup blup. Hideo Yamamoto Yay for a less gory and violent volume!
Yay for an introspective piece that gives a little insight into Nakoshi's past life and what he used to be like.
Yay for more homunculi!
Yay for a more rational yet complex volume that sheds some light on what's happening and where this might be going.
Hideo Yamamoto A big improvement over the previous two volumes. I’m beginning to get the impression that the protagonist has sociopathic tendencies. He also seems to be capable of emotion and wanting to change to a certain degree, so I’m not entirely sure if he’s a pure sociopath. He’s extremely repulsive and bizarre yet intriguing as well. I hope we get to learn more about his upbringing. Hideo Yamamoto In this volume, we get to see a broader view of Nakoshi's life and how his life is parallel to the sand girl's. Before his life in the car, he was an ordinary man working for the bank, having senseless sex with girls, and buying them expensive gifts to make them submit, almost on a daily basis. It was his routine, and how he couldn't even feel anything from this tiring day-to-day process. He was on the higher ground... he couldn't see life as it should be. He was numb to the world, just as the sand girl is numb to her own feelings. That was their similarity. And one faithful moment, when he rode a taxi and got to know a former employee of a company he shut down, all the feelings of guilt swallowed him whole. He gripped his left leg like it was the source of the guilt that's been eating him whole. He's finally seeing things in different light... he's finally feeling it.

A monster. No... A part of me? A reflection... The homunculi's distortions are my distortions.

Nakoshi went around town observing people and trying to identify what their homunculus means.

Also, pierced guy is really making me so anxious. What does his homunculus mean? I really can't figure it out no matter how I think about it.

Nakoshi: Look, I just want this hole filled in.
Pierced Guy: Y-yes...
Nakoshi: If you can fill it.

Does it imply that pierced guy is an empty human being and that his form reflects what he carries (like the guppy in his bag.) What about the water, slowly draining when he's in a tight situation?

Also, I swear, the art style is so creepy! Hideo Yamamoto It performs an excellent job of drawing in and retaining its readers by the scruffs of their necks, peaking in suspension at the MC's slow but deliberate spiral into insanity just to let them down in the most dismal way from the Nanako arc forward. Hideo Yamamoto