Bradherley no Basha

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Two sexy sketchy art series set in medieval Europe, built around the theme of episodic suffering. Don't expect to smile and laugh whilst reading... unless you happen to be sadistic, that is. But do expect to 'enjoy' something a little different from the norm. Wolfsmund is worth reading for the most hate-love worthy villain in recent memory. Bradherley? The artist of Blade of the Immortal, Samura, created it. Enough said. <br><br> Wolfsmund wastes no time showing readers what type of series it is as it set the tone by opening with an execution where a man asks to be killed by a sword instead of an axe - with honour - only to get the back of his knees kicked in response and is killed with an axe anyway. Some hope is then given by the author for the characters he introduces, but the medieval period was a brutal one: there are no happy ends. Bradherley, in contrast, starts without revealing what kind of series it is, before potentially traumatising readers. Both have been described as 'torture porn', but emotional torture aside, that only applies to Bradherley, in truth: it was serialised in 'Manga Erotics F', after all. Wolfsmund just tries to represent history with brutal accuracy. <br><br> Characters / potential protagonists are introduced in both and then cruelly discarded. If it is unflinching realism you are looking for in order to escape the happy end NO seen in other generic vanilla series, search no more: enjoy Wolfram mentally breaking those trying to get through his checkpoint by lying. Spoiler: it never ends well. Once he smiles, it is over. read more 

Just a warning: for the MANY less manly men than me/those with empathy, these two will be hard to stomach. They are the only two series I have read - and will probably ever read - built around a premise of gang-rape. And not just rape: beatings and abuse so extreme that, at times, it enters the realm of torture. YE BE WARNED! Bradherley is an episodic medieval fiction mini-series set somewhere in Europe where orphan girls think they have won the equivalent of the national lottery, get all excited/happy about leaving their orphanage, get taken somewhere... and I will leave the rest to your imagination. As the series progresses it does shift from showing what happens and is less 'Manga Erotics F' pandering. And Samura's works are always worth reading/looking at. But, yeah: not for the faint of heart. Or females, really. 17-sai is probably the more disturbing of the two, purely because it is based on a true story. It is also a FOUR VOLUME series about ONE girl. Not chapter-to-chapter heroine changing: the consistent, chapter-to-chapter abuse of one character. She is kidnapped and a group of young males continue to escalate the rape and abuse until... the end. Not a series full of happy thoughts, in short. No puppies here. read more 

Both are erotic grotesque (eroguro) stories about young orphaned girls.  

Both manga focus on the struggles of very young girls who are forced into prostitution/sex slavery due to their circumstances, which ofc, were completely out of their control. Do keep in mind that while Hwaja is a little on the mystery/supernatural side, Bradherley features flat out shocking content (including child rape). 

Both have similarly twisted themes, but on different levels. They both focus on the horrors caused by humans themselves.  

Both of these serialisations feature really dark and twisted stories that are not for the weak hearted. 

The two series feature torture scenes and broken relationships often as an attempt to create psychological frames of reference. 

Horror and psychological drives both of these series. The characters featured in them are profoundly abandoned and left in a setting they are never to depart. 

Nihilism abounds in these two collections of vignettes. Consistent with the dark (and, in Samura's case, occasionally brutal) styles of their authors, both manga illustrate the tragedy of chance in coincidentally medieval settings by following young girls who receive unfortunate draws. Always there is a little glimmer of hope - but hey, life is pointless.