Shintaro Kago is many things. Like Godard he’s a jester of form. Like Bataille he’s a notorious poetic pervert. Like Rabelais he’s a defecatory satirist. Like Ligotti he reveals the monstrous behind the mundane.
In fact Fraction’s clearest parallel is to Ligotti’s Notes on the Writing of Horror. Both are stories that are also metafictional treatises on how to write fiction, and eventually both end with a blurring of the story and the treatise.
One of Kago’s main conceits is playing with frame. His art style, as expected of an underground comix style writer, is very loose and unperfected, which means that he has to develop ...
Alternative TitlesJapanese: フラクション InformationType: Manga Volumes: 1 Chapters: 12 Status: Finished Published: 2009 Theme: Psychological Serialization: None Authors: Kago, Shintarou (Story & Art) StatisticsScore: 6.781 (scored by 2,507 users) 1 indicates a . Ranked: #119942 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2719 Members: 7,633 Favorites: 77 |
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