Ultra Gash Inferno

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I'm not typically one to criticize a work for being too gory. Grotesque imagery is typically fine by me, as long as there's some substance to go along with it. The problem with Ultra Gash Inferno is that it has almost no substance, with it's stories having very little point to them at all, most of them simply trading on shock value alone. The characters in them also aren't very memorable.

The only good story out of the nine of them was also the longest; the final tale, titled "Nonresistance City". It didn't exactly explore any interesting themes or ideas, but it at least had a ... cohesive tale which was just messed up enough to be mildly interesting. Even so, without any thematic elements or character development, the story still feels kind of pointless and empty by the end of it, despite it being the standout tale of the book.

The art throughout the book was extremely detailed and very well drawn, with plenty of interesting as well as experimental panel compositions.

However, the high quality of the art can't save the pointlessness of the stories, and the whole thing ends up feeling like just a bunch of cheap schlock made for a very specific audience. I can truly only recommend this to people who enjoy guro for guro's sake.

I've heard about this from a couple of friends. Hearing it was an out-of-print hard to find extreme ero guro novel, I took it upon myself to find and read it. In trying to purchase it, I found that I did not have $1,000 dollars to spare. After a bit of snooping around the internet I found a copy to read on archive. Now, I regret that decision. This is nothing more than nine short "stories" made for the purpose of seeing how much gore and obscure fetishes you can fit into one. I say "stories" in quotation marks because they really have no plot. ... They're just guro art all compiled into one big mess. The only story with a semblance of a plot is the very last one. It's actually a pretty intriguing story, and if every other story in Ultra Gash Inferno was like this, I wouldn't mind it as much. But no, it's the only one. The one thing going for this manga is the artwork itself. It's very detailed, not one disgusting detail forgotten. The backgrounds are well drawn, and has intent. But that;'s the only "good' part of this manga. Personally, I won't be reading or recommending this to anyone anytime soon. There's better guro out there to read.

If you're like me you've probably seen some of the panels online that just looked so ridiculous that you had to check this manga out. Don't bother. There is nothing of substance here. I'd expect this level of writing from an edgy 18 year old. There is absolutely nothing profound to be found here. The author isn't trying to convey any sort of message. The short 'stories' are just edgy nonsense with no conclusion. All I learnt from these stories is that the author has a scat/eyeball fetish. The author even gives weird detail at the end of one of his stories about how he ... has personally tasted scat and it was more bitter than foul tasting than he thought it would have been. Now I have to live with this forever and for that, I despise the author.