MPD Psycho 5
Posted: August 20, 2008 Filed under: MPD Psycho 6 Comments »I officially forgive this series for every boring, confusing story in those first three volumes. I’m still not over the Lucy Monostone kicker from the last volume, because that really was too much, but this is officially fun to read now.
Last volume was just a slaughter with some captives in an office building. This volume is a hunt in a remote section of town with some abandoned construction. Under the premise of filming some sort of special with Sasayama about profiling the new set of younger serial killers, putting his opinion against an FBI specialist from America. This was somehow a setup… I think to get Kazuhiko Amamiya together with the kids to see who is the better serial killer. The kids set up a series of incidents that recaps every single one of the gristly murders that has happened so far in the series. I appreciated the reminders.
Among those summoned to this scene, one of them happens to be a bounty hunter who not only beheads people, but keeps their eyes in a vial in his pocket. In his youth, he peeled the skin off his face to prove he was special. If nothing else, Eiji Otsuka is good for churning out some truly badass characters.
At one point, the FBI profiler hands everyone from the police department and the television station some sort of card with example profiling information on it. The suspect on the card is apparently on America’s Most Wanted list and was suspected of fleeing to Japan, which is why it’s relevant to the program. But as he’s handing out the cards, Kazuhiko Amamiya gets a different card, one with his face and a different personality on it. The reaction panel with his badly-drawn face frowning ferociously is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen in a manga. It just isn’t the expression you’d expect him to make at all.
Stuff happens, things are explained adequately enough for me to heave a huge sigh of relief, there are two Kazuhiko Amamiyas now, Mark David Chapman is also a child of Lucy Monostone… you know. Standard confusing MPD Psycho stuff. Except now it’s making sense within the story itself, so I can appreciate the insanity much more now.
… Mark David Chapman appears in MPD-Psycho?! Does he go around shooting exceptionally talented people for the confessed motive of getting some attention?
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This book needs to start making sense. After a disturbingly brilliant volume four, MPD-P goes right back to being a confusing-for-the-sake-of-confusing mess. There was a point- I don’t remember it exactly – where the FBI agent revealed that he had peeled his own face off. Then after he’s dead another guy jumps in, pulls his face off and was like, ‘no, no, I’m the real face peeler’. Now there’s two Amamiyas and two Nishizonos and I don’t know what the hell the big boobed domanitrix has to do with anything. There’s two different factions who want to do something and are fighting over who gets to do what. There are little kids jumping into other little kid’s bodies and killing people; then there are adults killing the little kids. There’s so many plot threads that I can sew my fat ass a nice pair of cargo pants.
Somehow though, this is more accessible to me than one man who is actually around five people doing different things at different times independent from one another. I can accept the fact there is some big organization, and that there is some sort of rogue offshoot of this organization, and that for whatever reason the leader of the offshoot likes to wander around naked or mostly naked a lot. I think these things are downright reasonable compared to the stuff I was trying to wrap my brain around concerning just the one character. But it’s all pretty ridiculous, yes. The thing about the little kid who could put himself in other little kids was kind of… yeah. I hope that doesn’t come up often.
Jun – Mark David Chapman doesn’t actually appear, they just quote him on the first page of the volume. It’s not something he actually said, but later the quote is used to tie him and some other real-life killers into the series a little bit as an explanation, or background, or whatever. It was still way out of left field, though.
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