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© Taro Bonten
Translator Ryan Holmberg announced on Instagram on Thursday that publisher Living the Line has licensed Taro Bonten's Face Meat manga to horror publication Smudge. Holmberg is translating the manga.
Listing on Barnes & Noble describes the manga:
A headless topless blonde, a face-stealing psychopath, a sleazy serial killer sculptor, a handsome and handsome Igor, a cuckolded caterpillar man, a painful dream suffering in the pit of hell. Welcome to the obscene and disgusting world of FACE MEAT, from the depraved imagination of wiseguy outlaw Bonten Taro—ex-kamikaze, ex-yakuza, singer, songwriter, actor, tattoo artist world famous, husband of seven and underrated pioneer of the “little finger”. violent” femme fatales and horror manga for adults.
While Mizuki Shigeru and Umezz Kazuo paved the way for the horror genre in shounen and shojo magazines in the 1960s, Bonten secretly did the same in erotic rags for men—and the results It's as trashy as you'd expect. With essays by Bonten Booster and B-gekiga expert Kunisawa Hiroshi, FACE MEAT includes fourteen hair-raising stories never before collected under a single cover in any language!
Holmberg said the manga's expected release date is May 2025. The manga will be Smudge's fourth release.
Living the Line describes Smudge as “a line of classic pulp, horror and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.” Norikazu Kawashima's Her Frankenstein is the first movie title to be imprinted. Other published titles include the manga UFO Mushroom Invasion (Shinryaku Enban Kinokonga) by Marina Shirakawa and Mansect (Yо̄chū) by Shinichi Koga.
Source: Ryan Holmberg's Instagram account
