Ningen Shikkaku
No Longer Human
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Japanese: 人間失格
English: No Longer Human
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 3
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 6, 2009 to Apr 21, 2011
Genre: Drama Drama
Themes: Historical Historical, Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Comic Bunch
Authors: Furuya, Usamaru (Story & Art), Dazai, Osamu (Story)

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Score: 8.041 (scored by 87998,799 users)
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Ranked: #6782
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Popularity: #459
Members: 35,310
Favorites: 719

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Ooba Youzou is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school.

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Ningen Shikkaku is an adaptation of Dazai Osamu's novel of the same title, originally published in 1948.

The series was published in English as No Longer Human by Vertical from October 25, 2011 to February 28, 2012.

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10 Recommended
4 Mixed Feelings
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Jul 12, 2023
Temoblanks
Recommended
Not really a story but more of a character exposé. The character, Yozo Oba, is young, rich, charismatic, talented, good-looking, sensitive, and innocent, much too perfect to see yourself in, but kind of an "I wish I was like that" character. To his perfection gets added a dose of psychological trauma which will be the source of conflict that spins his life out of control despite how easy good things happen to him.

From trauma, to depression, to despair, to addictions, to paranoia, to ruin, a progression that feels very real that touches your deep fibers even if the character originally felt too perfect to be ...
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Oct 20, 2022
JoestarEISH_020
Recommended
Albert Einstein once said 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.' This manga does not display the stupidity of humankind but rather the brilliance the literature they produce can entail.
Honestly speaking, I don't know where to begin with this piece of art. Disguising itself in a short 12 chapter adaptation is a story with god tier art, characters, and story telling.
Not much manga are able to prove their point as well as this. The psychological genre is a cruel one and one might say it is not for everyone. This book will tell you the opposite. ...
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Feb 25, 2022
rodmanii
Mixed Feelings
this shit is awful, we have an mc with an unending stream of woman willing to pay his bills because yes, because the plot demands it or something, the art is average, nothing really shocking happens contrary to most people says, is very tame, things really "shocking" happend like two or three in the whole manga, and

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the mc was resented with his father but this is never explained, hence i cared very little

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the rest of characters are just as bland and forgettable as the mc, and they all, again bend over to offer his cheek to him because the plot demands it, and besides ...
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