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Franken Fran

2006, Manga, 69 ch, 76%

Recommended by 9 Dementia 21 fans on AniList. Both have Medicine, Body Horror, Parody.

Somewhere, out in the sticks of rural Japan, there is a mysterious manor that is home to the greatest surgeon who ever lived. But when the surgeon goes missing, his reanimated daughter, Fran, takes up the family profession, and despite her Frankenstein-like ways, cares deeply…

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Anime for fans of Dementia 21

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About Dementia 21

2011, Manga, 37 ch, 72%

Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie's wits to the test! Cartoonist Kago, who is well known for combining a more traditional manga style with hyper realistic illustration technique, an experimental visual storytelling approach, and outrageously sexual and scatological subject matter, has single-handedly created his own genre: "fashionable paranoia."

(Source: Fantagraphics)

Note: Includes the unrelated oneshots "Detective SumoKING" and "Separate."

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