The Laughing Vampire

Manga : Warau Kyuuketsuki.
By Suehiro Maruo

I spent 2 hours reading this tonight. oh man. Beautiful.
Maybe this one from Suehiro Maruo is not that gore so I can accept.
Or maybe the gore-ness are accompanied by loads of beautiful and romantic scenes and depictions made
me accept this one.
The more I read, the more I like his artstyle.
That teenager is so handsome, URGH!!!!

It's a different kind of vampire story, and when the main storyline flows, there will be 1-2 stories
of different characters added in, a bit confusing at the beginning but it flows just right after a while.

It's nothing to do with cross, or Christianity. Not restricted to japanese vampires only, but cross cultural.
Plain "vampire". Beautiful, romantic artstyle.
Loads of details will drive you read slower.
Anyway, I felt sad in this manga. There's still things that related to humanity as well.
The beginning is really sad, and almost the end too.
First character introduced in this manga, had a sad life, a woman who's born with an appearance unlike
normal people got boycott, abused, killed and hanged on a tree.
Then she got buried, but she's not dead, instead she had become a human, or shouldn't be called as human,
who has an urge to drink blood. So, kill, drink blood.
And if she let another person drink her blood, the person will become like her, same species.

Then the story goes on.
Interesting perspective. I like this one.
At first you'll be like no way this is so weird, yuck, but slowly,
the manga will make you blend into them and start to get use of their lifestyle.
You'll feel sad for them, feel angry.
URGH FEELS!!!!

and yeah, surprisingly this manga got not much to do with sex in my opinion, although
there's some weird fetish going on. But still, compare to other quick search of his manga,
this is level 10 only out of 50.

Too much info

Today I found out some documentary about Yonaguni underwater ruins in Japan,
some articles about this and a few underwater pyramids around the world.
Feels creepy. Imagine you dive there, and saw this underwater ruin...
Man. The aura. It's like looking at pyramid..
It reminds me of Osamu Tezuka's manga- Phoenix.
I were lucky enough to rent it before they sell it out from a comic renting store in Ipoh,
so lucky. Somehow I feel that Osamu Tezuka is quite into ancient history and the future,
many work of him showcased a lot of ancient civilization and futuristic themes.
And after watching more and more documentaries about ancient architectures, I finally can relate them to most of his works.
I bet he is interested about archeology too.

Phoenix is really interesting, it focus a lot in Humanity.
Feel really down when I finish some of the stories. Every story starts from different
civilizations/ period of time.
It reminds me of people who believes god who cause certain civilizations wipe out in the past.

Phoenix will be undead, and it observes the people god created.
Then the story begins with the birth of humans, from the caveman to more civilized, to more advanced.
but got wiped out cause of war, plagues etc factors.
Hmm, after reading his manga, watching Ancient Aliens, there's a little link in it.
As in some themes and ideas of the birth of human, and the ancient past predictions.

Then okay suddenly I found this manga artist Suehiro Maruo.
He's a gore horror manga artist, with some sense of erotica.
Pretty artstyle, pretty people, but gore. NO!!!!!!!!!!!
I... I can't.. have too much gore..
Too much..
But I feel like reading one of his work. Man.
Cause it's so elegant!
Still.. HMMM... People who love gore, go for it.
GO!!!