Super Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka Manga
| OM Rank: | 1032 |
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| Categories: | comedy, seinen |
| Author: | Karasawa Nawoki |
| Artist: | Karasawa Nawoki |
| Original Publisher: | Shogakukan |
| Magazine: | Ikki |
| Start Date: | 2005 |
| Chapters: | 24 - completed |
Summary
Nawoki Karasawa is one of the longer-active and more prestigious names in the typically small time, lesser-known world of gag manga. In a genre where art skill is second to just about everything else, Karasawa's dialogue is hilariously sharp and witty.
A gag parody of Shinji Mizushima's immortal "Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari" (Karasawa's title only differs by adding "cho" [super] to "zankoku"), a manga about the dreams, ambitions and suffering of a group of bright young mangaka, Karasawa brilliantly takes the piss out of just about everything involved with being a mangaka. It's lewd, raunchy, endlessly cynical and laugh-out-loud funny.