Homunculus (Manga)

Homunculus (Japaneseホムンクルス, Homunkurusu ) is a manga series of the Japanese mangaka Hideo Yamamoto.

Main character is a young man who undergoes a need of money operation to change his life forever. The story is mainly aimed at adults and can be assigned to the His genre therefore.

Action

Susumu Nakoshi living on the streets for two weeks. Previously, he worked for an insurance company as an actuary, but now, after his release, he spends time either on the street, where some of the homeless have created a home, or in his car, where he is staying as often as possible and with which he every day "tour" makes.

One day he speaks to Manabu Ito, pretending to study medicine and volunteer subjects studied for an experiment. He promises Nakoshi a handsome fee and after his beloved car being towed, agrees this one, in the hope that he could freely buy his car back with the money.

Ito makes a trepanation on Nakoshi, so as to reduce the pressure at a specific location in mind and liberate unsuspected abilities. First, there were no changes seem to be firmly presented to. Nakoshi, prompted by Ito, use his left half of the body at an ESP card game, though reveals four out of five cards with a star symbol, this makes Ito, however, rather suspicious towards him. That same evening, after Ito has adopted Nakoshi plaguing the effects of surgery. He is henceforth able with his left eye, the deepest emotions and feelings, the homunculi, as she calls Ito later, of people visually perceive. This happens by chance, Nakoshis right eye was hit by a suddenly emerging, some dirt and leaves residues mitführenden gust of wind, which is why he only uses the left eye for a moment. Extremely confused about what he can see now ( including a woman running on the hands, a portly man who is seen from the side thin as paper, and a kind of changing tree), he goes backwards and accidentally spilled his previously purchased canned coffee on the jacket of a yakuza boss, the homunculus is converted so later in the story of Nakoshi so that it (ie the external appearance ) of the person who is perceived by Nakoshi with both eyes.

Characters

Susumu Nakoshi

Manabu Ito

Yakuza boss

Yukari

Publications

In Japan, the series was published from 2003 to 2011 weekly in individual chapters in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits and was released completely collected by the Shogakukan publishing house in 15 paperbacks. The manga is published among others in France by Editions Tonkam and in Italy by Planet Manga, in Spanish it appears in Ponent Mon

In Germany, the series of Egmont Manga & Anime was until March 2012 published in 15 volumes. The translation is by Monika Hammond.