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It's true.

I had eye surgery almost a month and despite of a successful operation, the vision of my right eye had been greatly hindered and I now see the world in a completely different way (literally).

It's awful and unfortunate, yes, but I keeping my optimism up.
It still beats complete blindness.

or 26 if you count the day of your birth as age 1...I prefer calling myself 25 because it makes me feel, well, younger (duh). but I turned 25, and if I live up to around 75 years old, I've gone through 1/3 of my life already.

1/3... it's time to get off the lazy couch and start accomplishing something.

that's right. preparing for an exam, no time to draw now.

but soon

that's right. no time to draw for now~

now, any guro lover would've already known this series by now, but not being much of a guro fan myself, I think this time I have a legit reason for not knowing about this series until now.
(though I do visit guro chan from time to time, but only when I'm extremely bored and have already read up every prolific serial killers to have existed on wikipeida)

but even though I may cringe at the thought of broken bones piercing out through the skin or intestines flowing out of a person, I totally love Franken Fran.
It's not just guro, it's FANTASTIC GURO- no! it's TASTEFUL GURO. beautifully drawn in disturbingly great detail, but not exploited in such a way that would make it seem repetitive and merely disgusting.  

Franken Fran features Fran, the product of an ingenious scientist/surgeon/professor and is almost as ingenious as her creator. And like any mad-scientist, she loves to spend the day either conducting gruesome experiments in her lab or slicing up and then putting back together her victims on the surgical table (whether the parts put back into her patients are originally theirs to begin with is another story...)

don't get me wrong though, Fran's not evil. She's just passionate about science, and most of the times she is just trying to help. It's just that her unconventional (you may even say it's progressive?) methods and brilliant knowledge and skills almost always manage to create monstrosity... monstrosity, that is, in the eye of a normal person.
but Fran's not discriminatory like that: aside from already housing a horde of monsters (who appear to be her former patients) in her mansion, she'll help anyone as long as she gets paid, even doing some charity from time to time.

the manga basically revolves around the wide array of cases that Fran accepts, be it a request to revive a dear pet dog by implanting its brain into the vessel of a human body (of which Fran seems to have many in store) or performing a plastic surgery on a girl who wishes to look more like a shou-jo character.

and the author himself seems to know his share of knowledge in medicine and the human body, as some chapters tend to flood you with intricate terms you've probably never heard before accompanied by wonderfully-drawn surgical scenes.

So, go look it up. Or, if you're not very into guro but garners enough interest to still want to check it out. I recommend reading chapter 2, "Chrysalis", which I still think is the best story by far.
(manga is R18 as it contains nudity and guro [duh?])
www.mangafox.com/manga/franken…


oh, did I mention that Fran can modify herself to have 6 hands during the more difficult surgeries?
she also has a cat with a human head (or a human with a cat's body, whichever)