Japanese: ホムンクルス
Type: Manga
Volumes: 15
Chapters: 166
Status: Completed
Published: Mar 17, 2003 to Feb 21, 2011
Genres: Mystery, Drama, Horror, Supernatural, Psychological, Seinen
Mangaka: Yamamoto Hideo (Story & Art)
Serialization: Big Comic Spirits
Synopsis: Trepanation is the procedure of drilling a hole in the skull. It is said to increase the blood circulation and improve pressure inside the skull. It is also said to bring out a person's sixth sense, the ability to use ESP, see ghosts, move objects with one's mind. This is speculative fiction based on the concept of trepanation.
Groups Scanlating
Endless Abyss
Hawks
Illuminati-Manga
Mangascreener
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates, Bato.to
Side notes: This manga gets only praises from readers but there is always the same note of warning: it's macabre. The story is intelligent and well constructed but the symbolism is and can be quite grotesque... and not pretty. The author doesn't let his readers go easy. Art is also on a very good if not great level and filled with imagination. But at least the start of the story is relatively slow and takes time to construct the plot.
P.S. There is no "chapters" the manga volumes. The story goes as one whole package from start to the end.
Main characters
Susumu Nakoshi (名越 進)
Susumu Nakoshi is a middle-aged man living in his car. Spending his time between a park full of homeless people and upper-class complex hotel, he is chosen by Manabu Ito to be an experimental guinea pig because he is neither an egocentric wealthy guy, nor a pitiful homeless man. He is "just between".
After the Trepanation he is able to see the "monster" in each human being, things that frighten or obsess people. By studying the human nature and facing the other's fear, he'll try to understand his own person thanks to this strange and worrying 6th sense.
Manabu Ito (伊藤 学)
Manabu Ito is a rich, 22-year old medical student who is well-versed in the matters of human psychology and physiology. However, his greatest concern is in performing a surgery known as trepanation. To do this, he seeks the ideal patient, Nakoshi, who lives a life of balance. Nakoshi accepts to be his experimental guinea pig for money. Ito claims that the procedure involves drilling a small hole into the skull, and allows for a sixth sense to develop.
Source: MAL
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