Bloody Maiden: Toomarimiki no Shima

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Synonyms: Bloody Maiden - Juusanki no Shima

Japanese: BLOODY MAIDEN ～十三鬼の島～

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 11

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 9, 2010 to Mar 9, 2012

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Ecchi

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Dragon Age

Authors: Hanao, Sutarou (Art), Taida, Kikuhiko (Story)

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Ranked: #20267²

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MangaDragon AgeHanao, Sutarou (Art), Taida, Kikuhiko (Story)

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12 members of the Fujimigahara Girls' Academy's Naginata club arrive at a remote island belonging to the club president's family. Legend has it that the remote island had long ago been the hideout of a group of extremely cruel bandits, and that priceless treasures - the fruits of their plunders - are still hidden somewhere on the island.

All is well until their club adviser and two members are brutally murdered. Thereby the curtain rises on the surviving girls' life-threatening battle with a bizarre masked killer...

(Source: Village Idiot)

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Jun 11, 2013

Asfaria

Mixed Feelings

Bloody Maiden is a survival horror manga that takes place on an island. Basically it's like Umineko no Naku Koro Ni except replace the people fighting over control of a fortune with an all-girls high school Naginata Club (like a spear with a curved end) trying to stay alive. The setup is pretty weak, and it isn't really all that creative and other things like "Another" do the high school survival horror genre much better and with less stupid, bad fanservice.

Story: 5/10

It's a cool setup even if it is overdone. The author takes a little too long to explain some details that probably should have ...

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Jul 28, 2022

megafat

Mixed Feelings

In the 16th century, a group of bandits known as the Kidoshu wander around Japan, plundering whatever they can find and storing their vast treasures on Toomariki Island. However, they don't escape the law for long and are eventually caught, crucified, and burned alive. Over time their legend fades, leaving the island and the museum on it as the only monument to their memory and the only proof of their existence.

A few centuries later and we arrive in modern times as Onitsuka Miaki and Koizumi Suzuka, along with with the ten other girls from the naginata club and their advisor go to Toomariki, go to ... a retreat to hone their skills. However, the gruesome past of the island quickly makes itself known and soon the members of the club get brutally killed off one by one by an unknown force, with the survivors having to band together to find out who the killer is before it's too late.

Bloody Maiden is a supernatural tinted slasher film distilled into the form of a manga and it doesn't try to be anything else. There's no fluff and it gets into the action almost immediately. It's filled with gratuitous amounts of violence, blood, gore, nudity, and lesbians, and it even has it's mostly female cast decided to change into their swimwear randomly out of nowhere and for no reason. It's sleazy but it's not pretending to by anything else. It knows exactly what it wants to be and runs with it, having fun with it's silly premise and going all in with just how absurd the whole thing is.

I can't even talk more about the plot beyond it's initial premise because I would end up spoiling it, that's how little to the plot there is, but nobody is here for the plot outside of it being an excuse to have a killer going around killing people and for the female characters to show off some skin. The manga is only one volume long and it's a fairly quick and breezy reason, and could probably be read in the same time as a 2 hour slasher movie.

The killer even has an iPod filled with bands and artists like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and Alice Cooper, easily setting the tone of just how campy it is. Both the design of the iPod and song titles are all just conveniently covered up just enough to now get sued, but clear enough to make it obvious as to what it's trying to get across.

If you're into slasher films like Friday the 13th, Nightmare On Elm Street, or Child's Play, like sleazy campy horror movies from the 80s in general, or could easily name at least 3 films that John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and/or David Cronenberg has directed or written, you'll get something out of this. If this doesn't sound like your cup of tea, you should probably avoid.

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Mar 10, 2020

AngryJimDale

Not Recommended

Warning: Minor spoilers about the flow of events, but tl;dr: you aren't missing anything special by reading the reviews for this one before you accidentally waste the better part of an hour on this schlock.

The characterization and story really fail to show any potential, at any point in this manga. The entire cast of characters is unceremoniously dumped upon the reader almost immediately and with so little meaningful exposition (and although an attempt was made to dump a bunch of it on you early, none of it feels of consequence when you are expected to actually follow along with over a dozen same-y characters ... introduced to you within 40 pages), some of the characters even fail to live up to a single bad, cliched trope, and clearly almost all of them exist simply to further make us feel bad when something happens to them. It begs the question of why the author chose to use so many heroines in the first place when making more than a handful of them even just one-note characters was beyond their writing capabilities for this piece.

The story itself is a joke, too. Horror and tragedy rely upon the reader feeling some semblance of connection to the characters or buying in to the atmosphere of dread the author is constructing, but the core story idea is so poorly mismanaged that the actual tragic events (and the in-character reactions to them) easily slip past the barrier between tragedy and into pure comedy. Some of the only times the characters can be seen exercising a degree of common sense is when it occurs to them to strip to avoid unfortunate environmental hazards, which begs the question of why the author didn't simply make an h-doujin instead of trying to string together such a shoddy story.

Not to say it would be salvaged by being pure hentai, either, as the art is far from the "not great but better than average" I was led to expect coming in based on the work's MAL rating, but I suppose weighted ratings help obscure just how below average something really is. The faces are really all over the place, *especially* early on, and in several instances some liberties were taken in adding detail to the background art, which may have been the saving grace in pulling any aspect of this manga to the average category. It IS ecchi, and while the girly bits aren't stand-out, it wouldn't be out of place for an amateur h-doujin. Alas, this piece tries too hard to make the reader care about a poorly constructed plot, and misses the chance to just be a silly dumb pseudo-porn manga.

I can't in good faith rate this manga a 1 because it lacks anything that grotesquely offends the reader's sensibilities, but to even call this simply mediocre is an insult to the mediocrity I've still had the good sense to take some joy out of. A thorough waste of time for anything besides the occasional TnA (can I recommend just reading hentai instead?), and the memes that come from consuming really bad media for shits and giggles. I had more fun writing this review than I did reading the manga.

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