'MPD Psycho' Manga Coming to America.

There have been fan translations (scanlations) of both the complete ICHI THE KILLER and MPD PSYCHO manga for years now. It's funny how the ICHI manga manages to be so much more fucked up than Miike's film. I mean it starts with necrophilia and only gets more tasteless all the time. Miike's film is hailed as this masterpiece of uninhibited perversion but actually it was toned way the fuck down from the source material. In conclusion I highly doubt it will ever make it to the US in an official release, at least not without extreme censorship. The MPD PSYCHO manga is a different story ... I actually found the manga even more confusing than the TV series. Trying to keep track of the guy's apparently dozens of different personalities and their individual agendas ... Yikes! Not for the casual reader to be sure but might be very rewarding for the obsessive compulsives out there.

Another Miike-related manga I'd love to read someday is FUDOH. There's two volumes and I'm actually having a hard time even tracking down the Japanese edition ... I think US manga publishers might underestimate the kind of synergetic effects they could get by releasing the manga source material for highly popular live-action movies. I mean, seriously, where in the fuck are the 12 volumes of RIKI-OH (STORY OF RICKY)? They can't possibly be expensive to license and I'm sure they'd find an audience!

I agree with you, Caterpillar. I haven't even found the japanese version of the Fudô manga yet, though I'm looking for it since a pretty long time. Would be interesting to see it one day.

I confess, despite moments of brilliance, not least the penultimate episode, Miike's MPD-PSYCHO adaptation ultimately left me disatisfied. My problem with Manga plotting is similar to that with Italian Giallo: everything but the kitchen sink is thrown in (not necessarily a bad thing, but) at the expense of any fully coherent narrative (dream-like, non-linear, linear or otherwise) or motivation and any complex characterisation. It's just confused.

But it is always fascinating, with a great, mesmerising theme song, and I just can't imagine British or English television presenting anything quite like this. And lesser Takashi Miike is always way above most else.

OooOooh. The manga is going to America??
I read the manga, it wasn't that hard to follow actually, I'm planning to watch the movie if it's not too scary (and if my parents aren't watching). I can see picture with the flower in the brain was a scene in the book. MPD Psycho is a great manga! The angles the artist used for the killing scenes are amazing!