Death Face

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Uziga Waita. The sickest of the sick. The grossest of the gross. He makes other artists of filth look like sensitive, menstrual-cycle-having schoolgirls who draw tentative shoujo, whilst cheerfully dancing and frolicking in soft fields full of moistened flowers, gleaming rainbows, and tiny, cutesy, inviting animals.

He is an extraordinarily perverted sicko who showers "Death Face" with his dark, strange, and heinous fetishes. "Death Face" is an entrance to his constantly swirling, blood-drenched, nauseating, and luridly violent and sexual universe that he has steadily been building with each one of his revolting releases. He is not the type to care of whether he ... is "going too far", because "far" to him just means average. Waita consistently strives to keep pushing it as much as he possibly can with his able body. "Death Face" is one of his most vile, repugnant, and nasty releases he's ever published. It is an uncompromisingly sadistic and blackly humorous postmodern piece of extremity.

"Death Face" is a ero-guro collection that is made with the intention to be grim, extreme, and highly sexual with blood and organs regularly flailing about, and in that sense it succeeds very well. These stories are viciously and interestingly filled with nightmarish and undesirable topics flowing everywhere in each one. It continuously plays with coarse and bitter subject matter: gang rape, insects, rough bondage, graphic mutilation, cruel sexual tools, loli devastation, etc., all are shown in unrestrained fashion. Bodies are simply toys ready to be damaged, pulled, and stretched in many creative and damaging ways in Waita's unforgiving "Death Face".

The short stories, "Night of Chrysalis" and "4th Class: Biology", best exemplify the 'majorly tortured victim' component that "Death Face" incorporates in every single one of its stories. "Cockroach" is the starter and begins the collection with a creepy use of cockroaches and an unbeknownst female victim. "Boxer" is devastating and contains an bleak ending, like many of these tales, because the relationship it shows never ended up going anywhere. "Ultra Mariko" is a very quick one, and the most unimpressive overall despite some very detailed artwork portions. "Material" is the most ambitious and also the longest one. It has three strange sections that involve insane amounts of amputee rape, torture, and submissive behavior. It also has a literal human flesh toilet. It is the most bizarre, funny, and unsettling story in "Death Face".

The art in "Death Face" is either the most appealing or off-putting factor of it. It depicts its absurdly vile situations appropriately through an explicitly violent and grotesque fashion, thus practically removing all the soft eroticism in the sexual acts due to the exceptional maximalist approach. This is one of the prime reasons that makes "Death Face" so interesting. The other primary reason that makes this exceedingly amusing is the usage of dark, coal-like black humor spread throughout the manga. "Death Face" is very funny while still maintaining its aggressive, rapacious style at a non-stop speed.

"Death Face" routinely uses many shades of black in the artwork. These shades aren't always solo with much space between them. They may overlap and become tones with varying degrees of gray, or coexist very closely next to other shade of black. The end result of this is quite intriguing and attractive. These numerous shades are achieved by heavy utilization of blood, saliva, sweat, and of course, seminal fluids. Backgrounds are competent and not flashy or elaborate; characters and their actions are given full concentration. The somewhat minimal character designs are refreshing considering the subject matter; lolicon characters are the best example of this. It's fascinating to see these designs being portrayed in such atypical situations. Any seemingly saccharine developments are quickly squashed and killed. The title obviously sounds painful for a reason.

Waita's manga may lack the darkly satirical edge of one of his contemporaries, Shintaro Kago, but he does possess the raw intensity and brutality that makes this particular work feel so kinetic and pleasing humor-wise. This assemblage of stories one of his best showcasings of his greatest qualities as a relentless and efficient guro artist and humorist.
"Death Face" is as abrasive as it is vigorously entertaining. It is satisfying and definitely titillates the usually concealed sweet tooth for entertainingly immoderate depravity and black-humor-styled hilarity.

Eight Abused, Battered, and Oozing Lolis out of Ten.

Well. Death Face is not your average hentai. It is more messed up than most guros, even Mai chan's daily life can't hold a candle to this. However, unlike the aforementioned work, this focuses far less on the story and indulges in the author's sick fetishes. For this reason it is much harder to take it seriously. Simply put, it is so mind numbingly stupid and unreal that you simply can't be triggered despite all the violence. And this is why it is so great.

Story: 5
As I said before, it is dumb. its only purpose is to be a filler before the "fun part". And ... yes, I said it sarcastically.

Art: 4
There isn't much to be said.

Characters: 5
They cannot be called as such for they simply severly lack any kind of personality. However each of them is uniqely messed up on their own way, which makes it interesting to a degree. Still, they are there to be a personification of the authors fetishes.

Enjoyment: 7
Honestly, I had actual fun reading it. Not because it is good. Quite the contrary. It is the case of being so bad that it is good. But I can't recommend it to any sane person. If you are a degenerate though? it is a must read.