Usamaru Furuya

Plastic Girl / プラスチックガール

Gavin

Very sick depiction of puberty, the wrongness inside. The abuse and self-harm depicted is just allegory for the nuclear emotions of teens. The script is childish.

Book would be intolerable if it wasn’t for Furuya’s insane amount of invention; every two pages, the style of: the inking, the panelling, the paper behind them, the character models all change completely, from Silent Hill water damage to gacha-capsule pink, to stained-glass purity, to fresco, to rough canvas, to actual skin. hand it to him.