Strange Circus has PLENTY of Fridge Horror
- The fact that Sayuri gets so angry and resentful of her 12 year old daughter is simply disgusting. Her father has been raping her while she watches locked in a cello case. Seeing your daughter being raped by your husband isn't something you should get jealous about, it's something you report to the police!
- However the fact that she also doesn't tell anyone about her husband is also quite shocking, perhaps because she's already been raped by him so many times. Maybe she can't tell the difference between consensual sex and rape?
- Gozo works as an elementary school principal, which almost makes you wonder: if he didn't rape his own daughter, who could've been next and which child would he target?
- Things get a little more weird when you realize that some of the women he's having over and having sex with are some of the teachers who work at his school.
- The fact that Yuji could actually be a grown-up Mitsuko set out for revenge against her abusive parents. Meaning:
- She's had to have had to undergo a lot of surgery in order to look more like a man than a woman
- She's had to under-go physical therapy in order to be able to walk again (since the last time we see her or what we assume to be her is as a wheelchair bound child and teenager)
- She's suffered a lot psychologically and is still seeking help
- She's had to track down her abusive mother and father knowing her mother was mentally ill
- She was declared a severely abused child and probably had to move from foster home to foster home and transfer to different schools
- If Yuji is really Mitsuko, the moment she's handed the transcript for the book is particularly disturbing in hindsight. She's being made to read a play by play of herself being raped. As erotica.
