Lychee Light Club Paperback – April 26, 2011

i originally read the story online and absolutely fell in love with it, so i decided to own the physical copy! i personally am such a fan of the art style and how each character is distinctive. the storyline itself is also pretty good, but overall i'm satisfied with every little bit of it! it's genre is labeled as ero-guro though, which isn't lined with a lot of people's liking. but i will say that my money has been well spent!

First this manga is 18+.please keep this mind.if you can't handle extreme violence this manga isn't for you.ive read several violent series over the years such as AoT,Chainsaw Man,Gantz,Akira,etc and at certain points of the story it greatly surpasses those titles.The story is wonderfully paced.the various action scenes flow well together.it seems this story plays off of Lord of the flies.its noticeable that themes from Beauty and Beast are additional present.this manga is a prime example of mob mentality.ive read The Wave by Todd Strasser and it also plays with the theme.This is an unique story but please heed the rating.While I can read it,its easy to see this could be disturbing to others.

this manga was AMAZING. idk why some ppl didn’t like it, i mean to each there own. but me personally i rlly loved it. it is a one shot meaning that there’s only one book BUT the author actually did make i believe 2 prequel books called “our light club” and it’s abt the club before. the thing is it’s all in japanese and there was no official translation for those two books. but this book was rlly good and i highly recommend. it’s a dark fantasy horror/comedy/romance manga. and the art is beautiful i couldn’t stop taking pictures !

Not a lot of revisiting value but certainly worth a read. Good size on the physical copy.

This is Usamaru Furuya's manga respect to the play of same name, and also to Suehiro Maruo (who also starred in the original play, says the epilogue), if it wasn't desperately familiar with the Kato-like masques that fascist headgear can give, and the exploitation of childhood fantasy.The story is a one-shot, so I won't spoil much. The sweetness Furuya can be known for is at play in the role of Lychee, a giant robot with a naive, almost "Iron Giant" sensibility and a body fueled by lychee fruit. The horror of Maruo is on display in the more or less cardboard cut-out characters of the underground club; they exist to drive home the thoughts and insecurities of the author(s) (societal critique alert?), not to push the story forward. Like filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, Furuya seems to love the outsider and the grotesqueness of the unknown; the sympathetic monster is a reflection of the misunderstood side of budding adolescence and group think. Those familiar with Hideshi Hino or Hanakuma know the themes of basic exploitation enough to know what you're getting yourself into.The story revolves around middle school drama and themes of alienation, fantasization, and of course the fetishization that is included in going to an all boys' school. The ideas presented vary from completely ridiculous to outright shadowing of Hollywood tropes. None of it really detracts from the chaos you came for, though none of it is original either.Still, it's a classic among ero-guro fans, and I'm glad to have it in English, finally. Furuya's building up his American repertoire nicely with the folks at Vertical, and a (Japanese language) prequel is in the works! Buy this and show Vertical they need to translate that ASAP.

I like weird but this one really weirded me out. I was, however, well written and illustrated.

this book was wrapped in plastic so when i opened it, so it had a horrible smell from the ink. they must've printed the book then wrapped it right away, they normally wrap manga's with adult content so i kinda expected it to be wrapped. all i need to do was just let the book sit out for a few hours then the smell was gone.other than that, i enjoyed this book

It came in perfect condition, and was even a little bigger than I had hoped. <3If you haven't read the two prequel graphic novels ahead of this tho, I wouldn't buy this book otherwise you will be very confused.