Psychosexual
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the psychosexual genre, media focusing on the psychology of sex and gender.
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Fight Club
Thoughts on David Fincher’s 1999 classic ‘Fight Club,’ namely its successes as entertainment and failures as art. (read more)
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Blood on the Tracks
In ‘Blood on the Tracks,’ Shūzō Oshimi returns to psychosexual horror-drama with a story about a boy and his manipulative mother. (read more)
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Drifting Net Café
While Shūzō Oshimi normally handles sexual content with tact, ‘Drifting Net Café’ is possibly his most exploitative work. How much does it drag the work down? (Warning: Review is currently only unedited notes.) (read more)
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Happiness
Shūzō Oshimi returns to supernatural horror elements with the vampiric manga, ‘Happiness.’ (read more)
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Waltz
Shūzō Oshimi’s ‘Waltz’ is a 40-page one-shot about genderfluidity and two teenagers searching for individuality and self-actualization. (read more)
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Avant-Garde Yumeko
‘Avant-Garde Yumeko’ is Shūzō Oshimi’s semenal coming-of-age short story about a girl’s "unconventional" artistic influence. (read more)
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Yuutai Nova
‘Yuutai Nova’ is about a man with the power of astral projection. It struggled to get its own feet off the ground and was cancelled. (read more)
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Tickled
‘Tickled’ is a documentary exposé on an underground, internet tickling fetish group. A thrilling watch revealing what the powerful do behind closed doors. (read more)
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Inside Mari
In ‘Inside Mari,’ an early-adult shut-in finds himself suddenly inside the body and personal life of a high school girl. Shūzō Oshimi explores gender dynamics and alienation in this somewhat comedic psychodrama. (read more)
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The Flowers of Evil
Possibly my favorite manga, Shūzō Oshimi’s ‘The Flowers of Evil’ delivers a story about societal repression, isolation, and perversion. (read more)