Suehiro Maruo 'Imo-Mushi' (The Caterpillar) Japanese Manga
Suehiro Maruo 'Imo-Mushi' (The Caterpillar) Japanese Manga
Japanese Edition 2009
Text: Japanese!
Hardcover
Parental warning: Adult content / This work is Ero guro (エログロ) - an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism and decadence. It may contain sexually explicit images and/or violence, blood, body horror, bugs, and other themes of horror.
The Caterpillar is an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. The Caterpillar is a haunting psycho-sexual tale of Lt. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns home to his young and beautiful wife. Sunaga initially is given a hero's welcome, but is quickly forgotten and shunned because of his injuries. Unable to speak or care for himself, he is completely at the mercy of his wife as she grows to loathe and toy with him.