Regarding Franken Fran:
No. Just... No. I mean, not that I actively think it's bad, just waaaaaay to heavy on the Squick for me personally.
stupid logo redesign makes me change my avatar!Franken Fran tends to have that effect on people.
Franken Fran is delicious and nutricious.
'''YOU SEE THIS DOG I'M PETTING? THAT WAS COURAGE WOLF.Cute, isn't he?Hahahahahahaha.
Franken Fran is the best comedy ever. Anybody know if it's licensed for a US release? I'd really like to get the volumes of it.
Kigitsu Katsuhisa = Mary Shelley + Isaac Asimov + H.P. Lovecraft + Drawing Skills + Dark Humor
What? I need a witty remark of some sort? How about: HAHA, WE ALREADY PUT A MONSTER THERE IN ADVANCE!!!People have different squick tolerance levels. Franken Fran is relatively normal for me. Because of this it's really something you have to try for yourself. I think it's hilarious and cute. In a morbid sort of way. God Fran is moe...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan ChahFor some reason, for me, Franken Fran is more noticeably heartwarming then it is squick...although it might have to do with my high tolerance of squick...and since theres so few moments of heartwarming that the few that does happen sticks in my head.
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."I don't find the gore that bad, probably because of the style as they don't look all that realistic. This is speaking form someone who gets easily squicked out in real life by this kind of stuff.
I do agree this manga is hilarious though, especially its use of irony and Laser-Guided Karma, as well as complete deconstruction of popular clichés we often see in the media.
The funniest got to be the Pudding follow up story that poked fun at adaptation decay.
That said the chapter where everyone is "eating the guest of honor" and where the lady spy got turned into dog-human hybrid, that was disturbing.
edited 23rd Jul '10 7:53:30 AM by Dimeron
Well, that was a disappointment. I expect better from Frank Fran. W Ell, maybe the next one will be better.
IJBM lives on here! Sign up!They are kind of foreshadowing a... conflict of sorts against things living deep in the sea. First the whale girl the Professor created, then the giants that live in the sea (that the Professor possibly created too) and now a brain that is Legion. I kinda want to add Gavrill but she lives above the sea.
Brain that is Legion? You mean that giant jelly fish thing? I....don't really understand that chapter one bit...
The thoughts of those kids are transferred to those tiny jelly fishes somehow...and then this giant one appears...and then this nun and her followers come in to kill lots of jelly fishes after killing the giant one.
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."The individual jellyfishes are more or less neurons and the brain is made of the conciousness of the drowned victims and God-knows-what else. The nun and the father don't really understand it but kill it anyways because that thing looked and talked evily as fuck anyways. There is foreshadowing that the conflict is far from over. Quite simple, really.
Also, "Your God is my fucktoy" is the best line ever.
OK, that was a good chapter, but I'm really confused as to how Sentinel I turned regular-looking again and joined Sentinel II (who he'd only met once and that beat him up) in fighting Black Lotus.
Franken Fran is great if you try to appreciate the satire and comedy, and try to ignore the squick. It's nice how the happy endings - of sorts, anyhow - generally come to the most selfless people, too. But there is some really disturbing stuff in there as well... That dog chapter kept me up all night e_e
edited 1st Sep '10 3:47:34 PM by Rivicali
{Absolutely Hilarious Sig}Does the newest chapter
mean there'll be some semblance of an ongoing plot now?
And would it kill Fran to find another cop to torture for a change?
edited 4th Nov '10 2:34:02 PM by snowbull
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