Uichi no Shima - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - Uichi's Square

[MangaDex]

 

[solamente]

from the very first chapter we get this visceral sense of discomfort, simply by inhabiting meiko's perspective. like seeing ppl say shit like "maybe you'll be the professor's wife one day". i'm a total sucker for any author who can integrate body horror with gendered immanence so tightly. double squick. tysm for this, it's a real treat

 

[solamente]

ALSO i keep getting reminded of this girl i was friends with in hs. we got paired together for art class, teacher took us up to a farm big enough to have its own internal system of gravel roads. I think the idea was we were supposed to draw like, fruit trees and stuff. but my God she had this sixth sense for finding random road kill.

theres this memory I have of her, she was standing over a possum (?) with its guts splayed out, like blender spaghetti. I asked her what she found interesting abt it and she just paused a whole ten seconds, pencil on the page. and said "Just look at the texture. Don't you see the texture?"

I met her again by accident at the train station further north, like 4ish years later and asked her what shes doing (I knew she studied veterinary biomed but not the specifics). i found out she's now a medical anatomist, or something like that, she does professional illustrations for textbooks and 3d models.

looking at that bisected corpse with innards like a starfish's underbelly, I still can't read prophecy in entrails but I think there's something captivating there that compels ppl like her and the author to turn the world upside-down and inside out to see what's hiding.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Huh, so the uichi thing is real after all.I thought it would be be some kind of mass hallucination or just crazy village stuff, but there is still chance it could be that.

 

[KATCRX]

The hottest girl in this manga, and she's dead.

 

[danbellucci]

the mum is right , you know.

 

[mrboxeater]

the art is really good but this chapter felt clunky as hell

 

[zawarudo]

That's an unexpected angle, I wonder how the author will try to use it in the overall story.

 

[JackdawMinuet]

The more I stare at it, the less grotesque it becomes.

Now it’s starting to look kinda cute.