Another vague kind of request. I'm looking for things with characters, situations, or whatever that disintegrate. Not literally. Um...
Well, I just came back from seeing a performance of Macbeth, and I think that's a pretty good example of both character and situation disintegration. Everything starts off good and just kind of collapses around him. Lady Macbeth is certainly a good example - strong-and-plotting to mad-raving to suicide.
It doesn't have to be like that though - another strong example that comes to mind is the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. The protagonist's identity basically breaks down as the story goes on until she's no longer really sure who she is - it's a children's book, so y'know - it doesn't even need to be violent or whatever.
Manga examples:
Narutaru
Freesia.
SaiKano
... and to my surprise, that's all I've got. Some other stuff probably could work too, but these are the best spot-on ones.
I don't think I'm being very clear with what I want, because I think people might be able to look at my list and go 'why didn't you include that?', where 'that' is Gantz or Bokurano or something. Gantz is more of a constant up-and-down struggle, Bokurano is a slow, inevitable, and constant downward spiral - but the general situations in both of these are kind of constant?
Meh. I'm not sure if that's what I mean. But whatever - it's fairly open to interpretation. I'm fine with any demographics and genres except shounen-ai and yaoi unless you can make a really good case for it.
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Helter Skelter is PERFECT for you.
Homunculus has some instances of this, as well.
Paranoia Star too, maybe? Metaphorical/symbolic disintegration, anyway...
There was that creepy one-shot about twins, Hanshin, which was about a kind of disintegration (of identity and of the body).
MPD Psycho has a very obvious case of multiple-personality disintegration.
Leviathan does, too, if you count the fact that the protagonist is literally stitched-up from other people's bodies. He's sane, though - mostly - and instead it's the increasingly bizarre atmosphere of the manga itself that constitutes 'disintegration' (of the reader's mind, at least... lol!).
MW and Monster feature very subtle (but very insidious) forms of moral and emotional disintegration, or rather, dismemberment at the hands of society...
Himitsu has several cases (it's a mystery manga about solving cases) that might suit. Both the victims and the detectives themselves suffer from disintegration as the dead victims' brains are deconstructed on-screen... The victims' brains are unraveled to reveal information, but the dark visions contained therein cause such psychological stress in the detectives trying to interpret that information that the detectives, too, end up falling apart. Or barely keeping it together. (The lead detective sleeps with a gun so that, should the time come, he can shoot himself in the head to prevent his own brain from being deconstructed after his death. YEAH, WEIRD, I KNOW.) Don't be fooled by the incredibly delicate art - this is a creepy-as-hell series, gory in the most unexpected ways, and definitely not for the fainthearted.
A relatively humorous and surreal take can be found in Fooly Cooly - the anime, anyway. I haven't read the manga.
If you don't mind explicit gay rape and explicit straight sex - orgies, more like - as well as drug-induced hallucinations and seriously graphic violence, then you absolutely MUST NOT MISS Jaryuu Dokuro's Endless World. It has one of the best inside-the-mind scenes of disintegration you're ever likely to see...
You might also enjoy browsing the Mindbreak category. Cheers!
Last edited by tartufo at 6:39 am, Sep 12 2010
Homunculus has some instances of this, as well.
Paranoia Star too, maybe? Metaphorical/symbolic disintegration, anyway...
There was that creepy one-shot about twins, Hanshin, which was about a kind of disintegration (of identity and of the body).
MPD Psycho has a very obvious case of multiple-personality disintegration.
Leviathan does, too, if you count the fact that the protagonist is literally stitched-up from other people's bodies. He's sane, though - mostly - and instead it's the increasingly bizarre atmosphere of the manga itself that constitutes 'disintegration' (of the reader's mind, at least... lol!).
MW and Monster feature very subtle (but very insidious) forms of moral and emotional disintegration, or rather, dismemberment at the hands of society...
Himitsu has several cases (it's a mystery manga about solving cases) that might suit. Both the victims and the detectives themselves suffer from disintegration as the dead victims' brains are deconstructed on-screen... The victims' brains are unraveled to reveal information, but the dark visions contained therein cause such psychological stress in the detectives trying to interpret that information that the detectives, too, end up falling apart. Or barely keeping it together. (The lead detective sleeps with a gun so that, should the time come, he can shoot himself in the head to prevent his own brain from being deconstructed after his death. YEAH, WEIRD, I KNOW.) Don't be fooled by the incredibly delicate art - this is a creepy-as-hell series, gory in the most unexpected ways, and definitely not for the fainthearted.
A relatively humorous and surreal take can be found in Fooly Cooly - the anime, anyway. I haven't read the manga.
If you don't mind explicit gay rape and explicit straight sex - orgies, more like - as well as drug-induced hallucinations and seriously graphic violence, then you absolutely MUST NOT MISS Jaryuu Dokuro's Endless World. It has one of the best inside-the-mind scenes of disintegration you're ever likely to see...
You might also enjoy browsing the Mindbreak category. Cheers!
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Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna?? Not sure if it fits but there is moment when the main character break but then he get up back to become stronger.
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Shin Angyo Onshi is pretty disintegrational. Or perhaps you could say everything fell apart, and at the beginning he's beginning to pull something resembling an act together so that it can fall apart again at the end.
Sort of. It's maybe not what you wanted, but it seems appropriate to me. Also it is an awesome manga, and who am I to pass up a opportunity to recommend it?
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Sort of. It's maybe not what you wanted, but it seems appropriate to me. Also it is an awesome manga, and who am I to pass up a opportunity to recommend it?
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