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Fraction

Alternative Titles

Japanese: フラクション


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Published: 2009
Genres: Horror Horror, Mystery Mystery
Theme: Psychological Psychological
Serialization: None
Authors: Kago, Shintarou (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.801 (scored by 23902,390 users)
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Ranked: #115282
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Popularity: #2697
Members: 7,270
Favorites: 74
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Volumes: /1
Chapters: /12

Synopsis

The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago (and Ryuichi Kasumi, a Japanese crime fiction writer) and a number of short stories.

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Reviews

Dec 12, 2014
Shintaro Kago is many things. Like Godard he’s a jester of form. Like Bataille he’s a notorious poetic pervert. Like Rabelais he’s a defecatory satirist. Like Ligotti he reveals the monstrous behind the mundane.

In fact Fraction’s clearest parallel is to Ligotti’s Notes on the Writing of Horror. Both are stories that are also metafictional treatises on how to write fiction, and eventually both end with a blurring of the story and the treatise.

One of Kago’s main conceits is playing with frame. His art style, as expected of an underground comix style writer, is very loose and unperfected, which means that he has to develop ...
May 1, 2020
My first foray into Kago Shintarou's work, as well as into the eroguro-horror genre in general. I picked this up late at night thinking: how bad can a manga really be?, at most it's just images on a page. Little did I know, this thought of mine would come full circle in my reading.

Turns out a few scenes in the eponymous story "Fraction" did send my heart racing. But guts and gore aside, what struck me more was the meta-commentary on the manga form itself. The story is presented as an alternating double narrative, between a serial killer's murders and a fictionalised Kago discussing his ...
Feb 5, 2019
The first story in this is definitely what I expect from ero-guro artists this early into reading them. It's gory, it's messed up but it's also extremely clever in the way that Kago creates his world. The author even explains as he goes along how the manga is created, the tricks they are using to twist your mind and for them to see what they want you to see, but even still twists and turns fill the pages, making you question everything when you come to the end. It's an extremely clever use of literacy illusion throughout the manga.
With a well thought out storyline, causing ...

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Where to read Chapter 9 and 11??
SAT_KUMAR - Jul 21
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Jul 21, 9:35 AM
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SwimminglyDone - Apr 11, 2015
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Nov 6, 2022 10:22 PM
Where Can I Read This?
BlueMoonSamurai - Dec 28, 2017
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Oct 10, 2022 4:01 AM
Poll: Fraction Chapter 12 Discussion
SwimminglyDone - Apr 11, 2015
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Jul 6, 2022 1:05 PM
Poll: Fraction Chapter 11 Discussion
SwimminglyDone - Apr 11, 2015
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