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Garden
Après le manga culte Palepoli, Garden explore le côté sombre d'Usamaru Furuya dans sept histoires hors normes et sans concessions. Sept jardins à découvrir du Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch aux jardins des enfers dans ce recueil de nouvelles qui furent pré-publiés de 1993 jusqu'en 2000 dans les magazines Comic Cue, Manga Erotics et Garo. Sensations fortes garanties.
200 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2000
About the author
Usamaru Furuya
98 books163 followersUsamaru Furuya (古屋兎丸) is a Japanese manga creator from Tokyo. His production covers a variety of art styles and genres, such as horror, humour, slice-of-life, erotica, sci-fi, always with a personal surrealistic touch. Society oppression and the human condition are common themes in his body of work.
Furuya showed an interest in comics making since elementary school. He graduated from Tama Art University, where he had studied sculpture and oil painting.
His manga career started in the alternative magazine 'Garo', in which he published a series of one-page comics called Palepoli (1994-1995). He then worked on Short Cuts (1996-1999), a gag manga serialised in the mainstream magazine 'Weekly Young Sunday'. Other short stories from the same period were collected in the books Garden (2000) and Plastic Girl (2000).
Over the years Furuya has created work for a number of manga magazines, underground and mainstream. Among his series available in one or more Western languages are: the dystopian The Music of Marie (2000-2001); the surreal horror Lychee Light Club (2005-2006), loosely based on a play by Norimizu Ameya; the post-apocalyptic 51 Ways to Save Her (2006-2007); Genkaku Picasso (2008-2010); No Longer Human (2009-2011), adaptation of a novel by Osamu Dazai; Amane Gymnasium (2017-2020).
Furuya showed an interest in comics making since elementary school. He graduated from Tama Art University, where he had studied sculpture and oil painting.
His manga career started in the alternative magazine 'Garo', in which he published a series of one-page comics called Palepoli (1994-1995). He then worked on Short Cuts (1996-1999), a gag manga serialised in the mainstream magazine 'Weekly Young Sunday'. Other short stories from the same period were collected in the books Garden (2000) and Plastic Girl (2000).
Over the years Furuya has created work for a number of manga magazines, underground and mainstream. Among his series available in one or more Western languages are: the dystopian The Music of Marie (2000-2001); the surreal horror Lychee Light Club (2005-2006), loosely based on a play by Norimizu Ameya; the post-apocalyptic 51 Ways to Save Her (2006-2007); Genkaku Picasso (2008-2010); No Longer Human (2009-2011), adaptation of a novel by Osamu Dazai; Amane Gymnasium (2017-2020).
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July 24, 2022
A modern parody of The Garden of Earthly Delights. A morbid yet humorous retelling of the Virgin Mary myth. A futuristic island that draws out the souls of orphaned girls to create philosophers eggs... Garden is a collection of very disturbing tales of dark surrealism and sexual corruption, satirizing biblical themes, artists and philosophers in intriguing ways. It combines horror, sci-fi and dark fantasy with twisted religious allegories
Some of the stories relied too heavily on shock value and felt thematically shallow, but others were extremely creative and visually fascinating. My favorite story was the one about the girls being turned into philosophers eggs. It reminded me of those crazy vintage sci-fi anime like Angel's Egg and Serial Experiments Lain.
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Some of the stories relied too heavily on shock value and felt thematically shallow, but others were extremely creative and visually fascinating. My favorite story was the one about the girls being turned into philosophers eggs. It reminded me of those crazy vintage sci-fi anime like Angel's Egg and Serial Experiments Lain.
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May 11, 2020
a few of these stories are very good, the gene wolfe riff in particular, but the final story emi-chan fucked me up for days. it’s probably the apex of a specific strain of deeply inadvisable ero-guro (although the generic function of that term i think glosses over the differences between the reprehensible and worthwhile work) cartooning (see also: jun hayami) focused on the absolute mutilation, degradation, and sexual abuse of women, but often also teenagers and children. i’ve never read anything in this vein as overwhelmingly awful and bleak and disgusting as emi-chan, it’s basically that one chapter of from hell w a 8 year-old, so ... plz just be aware.
January 28, 2018
Garden is a collection of short stories, and there's only one I really liked a lot, which was The Book of the Moon. The rest are just shocking for the sake of being shocking and overall kind of gross and misogynistic and rapey. I like Furuya's art in general, but the stories are just blah.
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April 24, 2023I’ve been a big horror fan since Childhood & love Furuya’s drawing style but I wasn’t able to finish this book. Emi-chan’s story which starts exactly halfway through the book was impossible to finish for me, so there’s 50% of the book that I didn’t read. I truly tried, but I mentally/physically react really bad to visual depictions of sexual abuse & the level of rawness with which violence against children are represented in this book is unbelievable. I’m really having a hard time understanding the point.
November 16, 2023
Certainly, I have read some pages, with drawings and words printed on it. One of the mangas ever.
January 16, 2025
The last story … I’ve never read something more disturbing, big trigger warnings, violent, vile and masterfully drawn. I am traumatized for life.
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June 11, 2024idk why I thought this would be a good morning coffee read ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ)
September 3, 2021
Quite a mixed bag but the artwork was very varied and accomplished, going from Bosch to German Expressionism to Francis Bacon. Nothing wrong with the short stories but there is a weird over abundance of sweaty rapists and child killers... and it doesn't really have much of a point to make besides the fact that these things happen to young girls. But the art itself gets across both dreams and reality and how they intersect; the last story in particular how the girl is getting assaulted in the woods and part of her mind is regressing to her childhood in order to deal with the traumatic event... but then it just ends with her getting her face smashed in. The last story actually tainted the rest of the collection for me, as up until then I was pretty much fine with most of it. Maybe that's the point but it would have been nice to have another story just to end it all on a more poignant and less adolescent note.
April 27, 2013
glorious surrealism with a hint of eroguro. for the brave
November 4, 2021
a arte é bem legal mas as histórias são tão violentas
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December 10, 2022wow. fucking revolting. depraved beyond redemption. still think about it to this day. haunting.
January 17, 2024
Manga che ho recuperato in occasione di un bundle edito dalla Coconino, molto apprezzato dato che era impreziosito da una piccola stampa firmata dall'autore Usamaru Furuya.
Garden raccoglie alcuni racconti che hanno a che fare con il grottesco e con una sorta di mondo fantastico, o forse dovrei dire fantascientifico molto interessante.
Personalmente ho apprezzato il primo racconto, intitolato "L'origine della nudità", unico rappresentato a colori, che mi ha immerso in uno scenario immaginario che univa animali reali e fantastici, ambientazioni naturalistiche ed eteree.
Breve ma divertente anche il racconto intitolato "La fellatio angelica".
"Il libro della luna" è stata la storia che mi è piaciuta di più in assoluto, approfondita, atmosferica, fantascientifica e sentimentale, l'ho letta volentieri.
Per il resto devo dire alti e bassi. Furuya è un autore importantissimo e non lo metto in dubbio ma alcune sue cose forse vanno sapute prendere con la giusta educazione, e forse mi manca abbastanza esperienza a riguardo.
Garden raccoglie alcuni racconti che hanno a che fare con il grottesco e con una sorta di mondo fantastico, o forse dovrei dire fantascientifico molto interessante.
Personalmente ho apprezzato il primo racconto, intitolato "L'origine della nudità", unico rappresentato a colori, che mi ha immerso in uno scenario immaginario che univa animali reali e fantastici, ambientazioni naturalistiche ed eteree.
Breve ma divertente anche il racconto intitolato "La fellatio angelica".
"Il libro della luna" è stata la storia che mi è piaciuta di più in assoluto, approfondita, atmosferica, fantascientifica e sentimentale, l'ho letta volentieri.
Per il resto devo dire alti e bassi. Furuya è un autore importantissimo e non lo metto in dubbio ma alcune sue cose forse vanno sapute prendere con la giusta educazione, e forse mi manca abbastanza esperienza a riguardo.
July 23, 2024
It is not for sensitive people. The drawings are beautiful and realistic, but they seem to me to be the representation of dreams under the influence of substances or the innermost fantasies. The dominant theme is man's equation with supreme evil and the glorification of nature.
December 26, 2023
avrei messo 5 se non fosse per il racconto “il libro della luna”
March 6, 2024
Well, definetly it's something
April 10, 2017
裸体の起源 is pretty much the best thing ever. This is what I'm here for.
月の書 is also good.
Usamaru is not my favorite eroguro and this is far from his best work, but still pretty damned awesome.
月の書 is also good.
Usamaru is not my favorite eroguro and this is far from his best work, but still pretty damned awesome.
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