Notpia – Yaoi Manga Review

Warning the following manga I am reviewing is NOT SAFE FOR WORK and most likely NOT SAFE FOR LIFE either. If you do not know what guro is, do not look up this manga.

Many have asked me every now and again what is the most disturbing yaoi I have come across and without a doubt that award goes to the anthology manga Notpia and part of that could be because this manga was my introduction to the world of Guro. A little lesson in Guro is needed to fairly warn any newcomer to the more depraved side of manga if you see this tag and are not a fan of gore or violence then just stay away from this stuff. I was in my late teens when I first came across snippets from Notpia on various websites, I was not mentally ready back then for what I saw. In recent years, however, I will admit I have become a fan of Candy Gore and I think a lot of this has to do with how unrealistic Candy Gore is.

Guro or Eroguro is a ‘grotesque’ form of pornographic artwork depicting the most extreme of sexual imagery and is not limited to scenes of murder, torture, and death with a sexual nature. It is what you get when you mix snuff with porn and it is a dark and disturbing rabbit hole that almost mentally scarred me when I first discovered the genre over a decade ago.

Notpia itself is anthology collection of ‘yaoi’ stories about pretty young boys and older men that entails murder, necrophilia, bestiality, pedophilia and at times a combination of all four. I suppose now one might see why something like Killing Stalking does not disturb me. I came across this manga by accident many years ago and feel I must write this ‘review’ as a stern warning to all yaoi fans… Just stay away from this one, and this is not some challenge to go out and read this just please please do not read this manga… seriously Boku no Pico is less scarring than this manga.