Great art in Manga

i've been reading Fourteen. It's. um. uh. well.
http://i41.tinypic.com/21mvrpg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/U288E.png
http://www.mangaland.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/14sai2.jpg
http://33.media.tumblr.com/04d7dfec135b79f3875d86095d4da92a/tumblr_inline_njawae33PG1rai78w.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Mphtx.png

Always wanted to read Fourteen, I've never really found my way around downloading scans. Maybe someday.

I saw a pile of Hong Kong comics in a charity shop once. There used to be a few American publishers who translated the stuff. Image even put out a bunch of them.

Well The Drifting classroom is on my list but that's the only Umezu series I'm actually familiar with. Had never actually heard of 14 but I'm sold on disconcerting rooster god, will definitely be checking that out.

it is completely insane

http://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/insanity-of-fourteen.html

Some may be familiar with this article.

omg this sounds AMAZING.

it's not easy reading is the thing; as that article points out, the moron quotient is far too high.
but if you have a high tolerance for batshit, woo boy it's the stuff.
try for yourself! http://www.mangareader.net/fourteen

read the first two volumes, absolutely horrified and confused
that reviewer was sure right about the dragging out.. "I'll tell you the truth..." "the truth is..." "i don't want know to know the truth!"
i actually want to sleep so i better stop reading this for the night

Dunno whether to look for a download or wait til I've finished loads of other stuff and maybe then there's a chance of official translation. Can't stand those manga reading sites and I vastly prefer jpeg collections over files for comic reader programmes.
Ebooks still don't seem to have made any serious impact on what gets officially translated.

I think it was a mistake to not have Drifting Classroom in omnibus format.

good lord, i finished reading 14. i'll never be the same.
I honestly don't know if i should have read it, but it was... fascinating, at least. truly a horrifying nightmare that i'll probably try to forget

http://deadscanlations.tumblr.com/tagged/HANAWA-Kazuichi

This tumblr is enormous. All sorts of things I've never heard of.

Had an interesting time looking through Amazon Japan in preview pages, sometimes it lets you see the majority of the book.

There's actually a lot of original Japanese Umezu books for sale on UK and USA versions of Amazon. I'm a little tempted because sometimes just reading the images can be interesting but most of them are volumes in a long series. Along with Drifting Classroom and Fourteen there's My Name Is Shingo, Orochi Blood and Left Hand of God Right Hand of the Devil.

Curse Of Kazuo Umezu animation is worth watching on youtube. The first story is creepy.