Gunjou

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Synonyms: Ultramarine

Japanese: 羣青

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 36

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 26, 2007 to Jan 25, 2012

Genres: Drama, Girls Love, Erotica

Theme: Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Ikki

Authors: Nakamura, Ching (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.40¹ (scored by 1,554 users)

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Ranked: N/A²

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Popularity: #3552

Members: 6,330

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Ranked N/APopularity #3552Members 6,330

MangaIkkiNakamura, Ching (Story & Art)

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"I want you to kill him..."

Her husband abuses her on a daily basis. Unable to stand it any longer, she asks her lesbian friend to kill her husband for her. And unable to say no to the woman she loves, the lesbian kills him...

Only 22 years old when the series began, Ching Nakamura offers up a work carved from flesh, blood, and bone.

(Source: Kotonoha)

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Otaka, Chiyomi

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Ezaki, Soko

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Kita, Kei

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Otaka, Kenji

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Otaka, Asami

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Tsuruta, Kouhei

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Isaka, Ken

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Kita, Hatsue

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Chiba, Kyoko

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Kirihara, Eiko

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Sep 10, 2024

LuxuriousHeart

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The plot is about a woman married to an abusive man. He's abusive and beats on her, so she gets a lesbian to kill him. Now, they're on the run.

The story is an exploration of sexuality and patriarchy. Of poverty and abuse. The MC goes through a lot. Her father was abusive and she followed the pattern by getting an abusive husband. She grew up poor and most people around her looked down on her and resented her. This made her cold and a hard shell. Not able to smile.

Usher in the blondie! ...

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Jan 22, 2023

MerienV

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My first impression was the resemblance to My Broke Mariko. The tortuous relationship between two women who have been intimate since adolescence, the distance established over time, the theme of suicide involved in the reunion. But Gunjou goes further; Gunjou gets entangled in the minds of those two tortuous souls, and brings up the theme of love, what it means to be a woman, what it really is to love, what it means to be loved by someone, the ideology of existing in society and forming bonds, family, and the contradictions between what actually happens in the heart and social conventions. Gunjou has deep characters ...

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Feb 10, 2023

MangaIsPolitical

Mixed Feelings

STORY: 4

The story revolves around two female protagonists and their relation. The first woman was abused by her husband and the second killed the husband although there is no love to be gained in return.
There's three volumes showing the aftermath of that murder committed in the name of love. The atmosphere is heavy and tragic and tries to provide real-life in-your-face drama. Alas somehow dialogues always feel a bit off for a realistic story and prevent the reader to empathize with the characters.

ART: 5

Art is not great compared to the average of the industry and you can find some anatomical mistakes here and there.
However, ... character drawings immediately sets this manga apart because there is no lookism.

Lookism can be seen as a mechanism of social domination where the marker is beauty (instead of race for racism or gender for sexism). Cultural productions like Hollywood movies or mangas are full of it: if you were to pick a random person in the street a few times you would find a few people that are not 'attractive' in the eyes of society. But in stories it's extremely rare to find a main protagonist that could be perceived as ugly, even for average characters. On the opposite characters that are 'ugly' are never random but are defined by their appearance, which implies that good-looking people are the norm (while it's not the case in reality). This is similar to the way women (see the Smurfs) or black people (see the trope of the token black friend in TV) are essentialized in fiction.

Almost every single manga uses good-looking protagonists (especially in the case of women) by default and not-good-looking protagonists only with a reason (because they are dumb and funny, bad, to show they have suffered, or just because they are feminists..).
Gunjou does not follow that trap and the same character can be drawn either cute or hideous depending on their emotions like in real life, which does a good job at making the story feel real. Too bad though that the dialogues don't manage to serve the same purpose.
Moreover, those are women that can look unattractive and even their naked bodies are crudely realistic instead of being something erotic to gaze at.

POLITICAL POTENTIAL: 5

The interesting content is more about feminism than politics.

FEMINISM: 7

This title completely centers on two women and their complex relationship. They don't even desire a man. Patriarchy is present and responsible for a great part of the misery occurring. There's no man to save the day and characters are not sexualized, that's already so much for a manga that I guessed that the author is female. Apparently the author is a woman and gay, let's hope cis men can also tackle such works someday.

CONCLUSION: 5

A heavy drama that cares about women and has non-conventional art. It's a pity that the weak dialogues block a full immersion.

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