Franken Fran Omnibus 1-2 Paperback – February 16, 2016

After reading this series, I learned that I actually have a very strong stomach. After all, it ain't easy to hit a two inch bull's eye from fifty paces away with your projectile vomiting if you have a weak stomach!But seriously, this series is absolutely hilarious and if you like your humor to be dark and twisted with a generous helping of gore, then this is the perfect dish for you to enjoy! The artwork is magnificent, the story lines are superb and you can finish this with a warm and fuzzy feeling in your gut... Which means that Fran's anesthesia is wearing off and you are about to see the results of the operation that she conducted on you while you were distracted by reading this manga.

one of my all time favourite mangas and i'm so happy it's been printed! it looks great in book form. each chapter tells a new story all of which are an entertaining blend of horror and comedy. the art is gruesome but almost cute at times, and if you're worried about fanservice the only place you'll find it is on the cover. fran is adorable despite accidentally mutilating most of her patients, and she's often paired with her cat with a human head, anxiety-ridden living weapon of a sister, and a girl wrapped head to toe with bandages who acts as fran's walking organ/blood storage unit (you know, for emergency transplants). it's as weird as it sounds and is an overall great series well worth reading.

Franken Fran kept showing up in my recommendations, and based on the positive reviews I decided to give it a shot. That was a good decision, as this turned out to be one of the more interesting manga I've read lately.As other reviews have noted, most of the stories in this volume are standalone, and many of the stories unfold as morality plays, not unlike old Twilight Zone episodes. Many stories involve Fran granting favors, and usually those favors do not exactly play out the way the petitioners had in mind. Fran also has a definite sense of right and wrong, and even her most gruesome acts can come across as logical from some point of view.If you are averse to gore, then you should probably pass on this particular manga. There's plenty of it, and the gross-out factor tends to be high. There is plenty of dismemberment and creepy things running around in Fran's lab, and the story with the cockroaches made me cringe a little bit.However, if you have a strong stomach and you enjoy morally ambiguous stories, I really can't recommend Franken Fran enough.

I tend to move away from series with dark themes but this is quite the dark comedy. There is no overarching story or plot and each chapter or episode is self-contained story. It remind me of the anime Pet Shops of Horror, similar with no overarching story and the like I believe. In the anime, people went to this pet shop to obtain a "pet" but if you break a rule then death will surely follow. And of course they broke that rule.But Fran is not a pet shop owner, she is surgeon. Who creates a house of horrors. A sweet girl but the people she helps or hires her, they don't get exactly what they expect (well most of them).There were a few stories where I wished to know more about or what happened afterwards kind of thing.I thought it was pretty good and I will get the second omnibus.

This manga is great.....plain and simple it's just great. If you like horror, if you like character, if you just plain like manga i'd recommend this.A fresh new take on Frankenstien-style lore, with great art, a fun and compelling main character, and a creativity i've not seen in a long time.I'll give an example of that creativity from our heronine Miss Fran. How would you keep a severed head alive? Electricity? Some sort of life serum? Robot or cadaver body? Well i'll tell you this, you wouldnt hollow out some of the skull and stuff organs inside it.If a full recommendation from a stranger means anything from you, you have it.

Great series very graphic and hilarious definitely not for children but it is a series that I like a lot for those that like horror and gore pick it up very interesting. I would love an anime adaptation of this

The stories are getting more... visceral in this volume! With the new addition of Fran's little sister, we get to see a whole new plethora of macabre medicine at work.

Franken fran is easily one of my favorite manga, loaded with dark humor, body horror and social criticism, it's more than guts and blood. It takes some of the typical tropes commonly seen in media such as anime and manga and twists them into something creepy that can be terrifying but at the same time hialrious.