Outsider
The Outsider
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Outsider

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Chuunikai no Aru Ie, Nijuurokunin no Otoko to Hitori no Shoujo, Juga, The House with the Mezzanine, Twenty-six Men and a Girl
Japanese: アウトサイダー
English: The Outsider
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 8
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 12, 2002 to Oct 12, 2005
Genres: Horror Horror, Supernatural Supernatural
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Comic Beam
Authors: Lovecraft, H. P. (Story), Tanabe, Gou (Story & Art), Chekhov, Anton (Story), Gorky, Maxim (Story)

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Score: 6.481 (scored by 173173 users)
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Ranked: #165492
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Popularity: #20985
Members: 635
Favorites: 0

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Preliminary Spoiler
Jan 3, 2022
My memory of this manga is fuzzy because I read it a few years ago, but this was a very poor choice for a short story adaptation on Gou Tanabe's part; The outsider, a horror story by H.P. Lovecraft that predates the Cthulhu mythos, was really written specifically for the first person short story format.

The story involves a man who has long dwelled in a decrepit castle with no understanding of the outside world or seemingly any concrete memories. He is trapped inside and seeks to escape. In Tanabe's adaptation, the man is shown in silhouette until the end reveal, which is very awkward ...