Ningen Shikkaku

Ningen Shikkaku

Alternative Titles

Synonyms

Japanese

人間失格

English

No Longer Human

Information

Type

Manga

Published

May 2, 2017 to Apr 20, 2018

Status

Finished

Source

Rating

Genres

Drama

Demographics

Seinen

Statistics

Rank

1046

Score

7.88

Scored by

9718

Popularity

848

Members

22753

Favorites

564

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Synopsis

"Mine has been a life of much shame." "I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being." Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. Osamu Dazai's immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. (Source: VIZ Media)

Background

Ningen Shikkaku was published in English as No Longer Human by VIZ Media as a 3-in-1 omnibus volume on December 17, 2019. It was also released in Spanish by ECC Ediciones as a 3-in-1 omnibus volume on December 5, 2022.

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