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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Mmm... Tengo sentimientos encontrados porque como persona neurodivergente puedo entender y empatizar con mucho de lo que sentía el protagonista, pero como mujer te odio vato, cállate tantito, eras pedante, cretino, un cobarde, falso, sexista y ególatra que nunca se hizo responsable de sus acciones 🙄😒
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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I will need to come back and review this. It's sitting with me in a way that will take some time to parse. It's interesting to see the creative liberties that Junji Ito took in the manga adaptation of this book.
I will need to come back and review this. It's sitting with me in a way that will take some time to parse. It's interesting to see the creative liberties that Junji Ito took in the manga adaptation of this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting
Moderate: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Straightforward and yet beautifully written, No Longer Human explores neurodivergence even when it does not employ any specialized vocabulary to fully express what the protagonist Yozo suffers from. I wondered at times if the novel’s dry prose was an inherent part of it or a side effect of its translation into English, but I think the rawness of the writing style lent to the dark events of the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a fantastic work which contains many reflexive moments that hit close to home and many that didn’t, but the relatable moments made Yozo’s character all the more tragic and human in-spite of his claim near the end that he ceased to be human.
No Longer Human is a book devoid of all emotions, nullifying all and any feeling, sticking only to its themes of loneliness, alienation, and misanthropy. This book, though I heavily appreciate its deep, raw, and disturbingly real display of how it feels to be alienated and outcasted by society, I've strained so far away from that feeling that I could not relate at all to the book or find anything that I could reconcile with. Yozo as a character is purposefully made to be unlikeable and vile, he is a walking husk living a nihilist life that has never felt any real human emotion. This is how I felt reading this book. It's so colorless and bland that I almost felt like I was in post-war Japan reading it. Well, that is the whole point of the book. Truly in its own realm, I've never read a book that felt as soulless as this... in a good way, not a critical way.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was so melancholy and so beautifully written. 1948? god. depression is human nature really