Franken Fran (フランケン・ふらん) is a manga made by Katsuhisa Kigitsu starting on September 2006. It’s a story about a cute girl called Fran Madaraki who seems like your regular stitched up girl with metal bolts in her head but underneath that cute smile is a genius surgeon with skills that are matched by none other than her creator, Dr. Madaraki.

As there is surgery in this manga, there is bound to be blood. Not only is there blood but gore as well as this is also a horror manga that show’s disturbing images of monsters and crazy things that result from Fran’s surgery. Also note, as surgery is involved, there are very detailed images of internal organs that are disturbing but incredible to look at for the detail of work put into them. As such, this manga isn’t for everyone due to the extremely graphic nature of it. I honestly wanted to stop reading it at some points as it got too detailed and gory for me in certain scenes but it kept drawing me in and I kept reading.

I’ll do a quick recap of the first chapter that will involve commentary about certain points that I have found throughout the chapters that I have read.

Note: Certain images are disturbing and you should not read on if you do not like gore, horror, dismemberment, and falling eyeballs. Though I have pixelated the gorier part of this chapter.  Read more...