Homunculus

Synopsis

Nakoshi Susumu is 34, living out of his car in a Shinjuku parking lot — between worlds, choosing neither. A medical student offers him money to participate in experimental trepanation: drilling a hole in his skull to grant a 'sixth sense.' It gives him something stranger: the ability to see people's psychological traumas externalized as physical deformations, visible only through his surgically modified left eye. Each person he encounters becomes a psychological case study, their buried shame made grotesquely literal. Homunculus (Hideo Yamamoto) is 200 chapters of psychological horror that takes Jungian theory and renders it viscerally, uncomfortably visible. Dark, challenging, and genuinely interesting in both its horror and its psychological framework. The Netflix film (2021) exists; the manga is significantly more complete. Available in collected volumes.

Tags