I'm not planning to participate in the inner challenge by intent but most of my nominations fit the bill so there is a big chance I'll be doing it accidentally.
Rh Plus -(A Japanese drama, so everyone is Japanese. I lifted the summary from dramacrazy)
This series follows the daily lives of 4 vampires that live together in a European-style building: Kiyoi is the eldest who takes care of the others, Masakazu is a college student who gets information on criminal activities, and Ageha and Makoto both go to high-school (and tend to end up helping Masakazu whether they really want to or not). They fight against crime when the cops are unwilling or unable to do so. The series is based off of a shounen-ai manga published in B's Log. Whether you like shounen-ai or not, it hasn't been very obvious in this series and it may not be... the jury's still out on that. TimeLesSub
The content may be triggering and disturbing. Deals with some very heavy and dark subjects like pedophilia, rape (both female and male), necrophilia, zoophilia, serial murder, torture, mass murder, child murder, chemical weapons ect.
(Fallowing summary is lifted from wikipedia)
The banker Michio Yuki leads a double life. Besides his dayjob he also engages in a series of kidnappings in which he usually will kill both the kidnapped person as well as the extorted after he has reaped the money. After his deeds he seeks refuge with the Catholic priest Father Garai. The two men share a history as 15 years prior they were both the only survivors of a leak of poisonous gas at a military basis on a small pacific island near Okinawa called Okino Mafune Island. The men also share a homosexual relationship; after their first night together the adolescent Garai raped the underaged Michio. However, Michio did not escape unscathed as he inhaled a dose of the poisonous gas, MW, which drove him criminally insane. However, the incident had been carefully covered up and the island repopulated, while the military base was dissolved and the MW moved to another base.
Garai, feeling that Michio's misdeeds are in part his responsibility and also bound to his oath as a priest, chooses not to hand Michio over to the police but instead to assist him in his escape.
The manga has been printed in English by vertical ( In both hard cover and this year as a paper back) so it should be findable. You can have a free preview of the first chapter in their homepage.
There are scanlations of the book also going on, so if someone is really intrested they should be able to find it.
While this is a very disturbing read and can be discomfortable to be read because of the dark subject matters, I still absolutely love it because the book makes one think, has good allegories in what it is to be a human, What it is to be a monster, what creates them, is redemption possible ect.
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Rh Plus -(A Japanese drama, so everyone is Japanese. I lifted the summary from dramacrazy)
This series follows the daily lives of 4 vampires that live together in a European-style building: Kiyoi is the eldest who takes care of the others, Masakazu is a college student who gets information on criminal activities, and Ageha and Makoto both go to high-school (and tend to end up helping Masakazu whether they really want to or not). They fight against crime when the cops are unwilling or unable to do so. The series is based off of a shounen-ai manga published in B's Log. Whether you like shounen-ai or not, it hasn't been very obvious in this series and it may not be... the jury's still out on that. TimeLesSub
Watch it here: http://www.dramacrazy.net/japanese-drama/rh-plus/
MW (manga by Osamu Tezuka)
The content may be triggering and disturbing. Deals with some very heavy and dark subjects like pedophilia, rape (both female and male), necrophilia, zoophilia, serial murder, torture, mass murder, child murder, chemical weapons ect.
(Fallowing summary is lifted from wikipedia)
The banker Michio Yuki leads a double life. Besides his dayjob he also engages in a series of kidnappings in which he usually will kill both the kidnapped person as well as the extorted after he has reaped the money. After his deeds he seeks refuge with the Catholic priest Father Garai. The two men share a history as 15 years prior they were both the only survivors of a leak of poisonous gas at a military basis on a small pacific island near Okinawa called Okino Mafune Island. The men also share a homosexual relationship; after their first night together the adolescent Garai raped the underaged Michio. However, Michio did not escape unscathed as he inhaled a dose of the poisonous gas, MW, which drove him criminally insane. However, the incident had been carefully covered up and the island repopulated, while the military base was dissolved and the MW moved to another base.
Garai, feeling that Michio's misdeeds are in part his responsibility and also bound to his oath as a priest, chooses not to hand Michio over to the police but instead to assist him in his escape.
The manga has been printed in English by vertical ( In both hard cover and this year as a paper back) so it should be findable.
You can have a free preview of the first chapter in their homepage.
http://www.vertical-inc.com/books/mw.html
There are scanlations of the book also going on, so if someone is really intrested they should be able to find it.
While this is a very disturbing read and can be discomfortable to be read because of the dark subject matters, I still absolutely love it because the book makes one think, has good allegories in what it is to be a human, What it is to be a monster, what creates them, is redemption possible ect.