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''Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show'' is [[Suehiro Maruo]]'s most famous manga, and the work that has cemented his reputation in the west. A crude but very faithful animated adaptation has been made through the effort of one single person: Hiroshi Harada.
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=== This work provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Art Shift]] -- Midori's fever dream is partly rendered in a rounded, simplistic style common in girl mangas.
* [[Banned in China]] -- the animated film adaptation, ''Midori'', is banned in Japan, and the master reels were confiscated.
* [[Blood -Splattered Innocents]] -- the notorious chicken scene.
* [[Break the Cutie]].
* [[Circus of Fear]] -- especially when the midget illusionist is angry...
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* [[Parental Abandonment]] -- Midori's father has walked out of the family long before the story starts.
* [[Rape As Drama]].
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]] -- and how.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]].
 

Revision as of 21:06, 8 January 2014

Midori, a little girl from a run-down family, sells paper flowers in the streets. She wishes that if she makes enough money, she can perhaps join her classmates in the school picnic. Late one night, she returns home to find her ailing mother dead -- what's more, rats are gnawing at her private parts. With no one to turn to, she tries the address one customer gave her -- and comes to a seedy freak show run by a money-hungry Mr. Arashi. Midori is degraded, brutalised, and forced to perform fetishistic acts on stage, until a midget illusionist comes along and takes Midori under his wings. Will Midori at last find true love and happiness? ... Well, what kind of story you think you're reading, my friend?

Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show is Suehiro Maruo's most famous manga, and the work that has cemented his reputation in the west. A crude but very faithful animated adaptation has been made through the effort of one single person: Hiroshi Harada.

Tropes used in Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show include: