It's not on Mangafox, where it at bro?

>>51423
DDL from Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?110nnble2slj8p4

>>51427
ALL DOSE TIDDY BARS

Eh I've baww'd worse than that. Still a good Franken Fran though. That ending, truly Fran has a hard time grasping exostential suffering.

>>51427
And just how is "she" supposed to carry all those?

>>51471
I don't think it's an issue when she'll probably never move again.

Brand new chapter, and it's the return of Gavrill!

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/c044/

Gavrills actually kinda cute when she's not eating people alive.

>>52312
I'm in love.

>>52312

HUGE TITS

>>52312
>more Gavrill
Yessssss.

And that poor long-suffering cop.

>>52324
I know, right? That strength, that brutality, that utterly filthy mouth... <3

Gavrill needs more fan art.

New chapter is up

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/c045/

Cockroach Gundam. That's all I'm gonna say about this one.

>>54124
I think that's one of my favorite chapters now.

>>54124

That was amazing.

ITS ULTRA G

I thought about it more, and now I'm hoping there will be a chapter about the roaches worshiping Veronica as the focus of their religion.

>>54158
I would join this religion.

>>54124
My ongoing strategy of only reading Franken Fran chapters that seem relatively AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH free continues to pay off.

>>54161
Do you mean to say, you're... actively avoiding certain chapters of Franken Fran?

what is this i don't even

>>54162
I'm what's known in technical terms as a "massive pussy."

This chapter finally convinced me to the read the series.

How did I go this far without it?

New chapter!
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/v06/c046/

You have to admire how it's the nutty mad scientist who's usually the voice of reason in these stories.

>>57049
Steabe, you card.

Not the strangest chapter, but still a freaky finish. I'd like to see that company get taken down. Maybe by one of the Sentinels.

>>57049
Kinda annoys me sometimes how the other characters say what they want in the most idiotic strawman way though. Usually someone like that would look for excuses as to why they "shouldn't" exercise or "Will go crazy" without sweets, instead of just saying they hate it.
Ah well, I'm looking too much into it.

Hey, Hox has the new chapter.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yx2j4h2qgz4y53g

>>57347

Honestly, that's probably a bug in translation.

>dat Volume 6 cover

>>58004
SPOILERS
One of the more interesting takes on zombies I've seen in a while. I've seen versions of zombies spawned by parasites before, but the victims remaining aware and trapped within their shambling bodies is a really unsettling concept. Man, I really hope the reporter makes it out okay. D: Also, does it feel to anyone else like this one might continue next chapter? A lot of chapters have rather abrupt ends, but something about this one makes me feel like there should be more.

>>58009
How do you mean?

>>58010
All of my UNF!

>>58011
I'm sure like the female cop, she'll be a regular character. Though really, the poor girl has only herself to blame.
"Yeah I'll follow the crazy scientist who turned a girl into a building and created the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What could possibly go wrong?"

>>58016
I hope that's the case. Actually I think the two characters would kind of compliment each other: the cop who wants nothing to do with all this strangeness but who keeps getting pulled back in, and the reporter who keeps plunging into it, even though she should have learned better.

Admittedly her decision to blithely follow Fran was not the wisest, but somehow I just can't fault her. I respect her dedication to being a good reporter (especially since she's trying to report on matters of actual gravity, and not just sifting through some celebrities' garbage), even if she's rather foolhardy.

>That end translator note
God damn ponies.

>infection is reversible, but most people assume it isn't

That is the most brilliantly horrific take on a zombie outbreak that I've ever heard.

Although, Stroker and Hoop technically did something similar.

>>58053
South Park too, now that I think about it.
"...the first thing you need to do is make sure that you do not just go out and start decapitating zombies left and right. Do you understand? Do not start decapitating zombies left and right!"
"All you have to do is kill the original zombie. The one that started the whole mess. Once you kill the original zombie, all the others zombies will turn back to normal."

However, both Stroker and Hoop and South Park were handling things in a considerably more lighthearted manner, since they're primarily comedies. Franken Fran actually took the horrific potential of the concept and saw it fully realized, and the fact that the victims are actually aware, but unable to help themselves makes it that much more chilling.

>>58056
Ah right, Pinkeye. I forgot that.

>>58027

No new chapter yet, but I thought this needed posting.
UNF.

>>58806
A wise decision indeed, Chainerman.

God, I hope we get to see Fran use another alt body soon. Or get horribly injured/have to perform self-surgery. Those tend to happen in the best chapters.

>>58806
Damn it, I love that guys art style but he tends to do guro so much...

>>58840
There's something very weird about calling that a detracting point while posting in a Franken Fran thread.

>>58840
>>58842
Yeah, it actually seems rather fitting that an artist who draws guro would make Franken Fran fan art.

Also, a neat Gavrill I found.

Hey look, more extra-armed sexy Fran!

>>58861
This was my msn icon for the longest time.

>>58842
Yeah I know but I dont fap to Franken Fran manga's surgery scenes Other scenes however... Still each to his own.

>>58861
Where has all this sexy fanart been hiding!?

>>58864
Try Gelbooru.

Finally got around to downloading the drama CD.
I can't literally understand what they're saying, of course, but the sound effects sure are yummy~

>>58894
The sound effects were indeed delightful. :)
Fran's voice sounded a lot like what I hear in my head when I'm reading her, but Veronica's kind of threw me. I guess because she's a killing machine, and in some ways more street-savvy than Fran, I tend to read her as sounding older than her apparent age, so hearing a more generally age-appropriate voice seemed odd.

Oh, and a preview pic of the volume 6 cover apparently shows that Gavrill has purplish hair and red eyes. I'm okay with this.

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS LOOK WHAT UPDATED
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/v06/c048/1.html
Not the strongest chapter by any means, but Fran commenting on the similarities between human flesh and spam made my day.

>>60427
HOORAY!
Loved that ending. I knew there was no way it was going to end that happily, so I was wondering how things would go sour, and that was a nice little twist. The whole concept of a cannibal cure is a morbidly fascinating notion.

And the spam comparison was indeed fantastic.

Also, while waiting for the chapter to get translated to English, I got curious and peeked ahead at some of the Chinese translations that are floating around, just the first couple pages of the chapters. Looks like next chapter is going to have more Gavrill! :D

>>58902

Wait, didn't that picture at the start of the chapter show her with sky blue or periwinkle hair?

Is Kigitsu channeling a little bit of Araki when it comes to "official" colors?

Wikipedia's describing it as "unkempt blonde" and I have no idea where the shit they got that idea.
But I'm pretty sure that cover preview was always blue.

Heard about this, interested. Where to start?

>>60478
The start.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/v01/c001/1.html

>>60471
Yes, her hair does look a bit paler in the preview pic. I described it as "purplish" because I wasn't sure which specific color it was closest to. >>58902 is fan art from Pixiv, so that's why there's a bit of a color disparity there.

>>60475
I'm guessing someone either made an assumption, or based that off of fan art made prior to her hair color being made known.

>>60482

Ithankyew.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

>>60510
Yeah, it's kind of like that. Have you gotten to Veronica yet? Because shit really gets amazing after that.

I'm on #28 right now.

So far, all of them except the Chrysalis one have me deeply in love.

>>60542
>except the Chrysalis one
What's the matter? Too BAD END for you?

>>60543

Eh, kind of. I didn't get what it was trying to say.

inb4 "it was just a joke"

>>60544
Hows you can't force someone to love you?

>>60542
Aw, but that's one of my favorites. :c
Sometimes I listen to the audio drama version during figure class for concentration.

>>60548

Wait...who forced who to what now?

>>60544
>I didn't get what it was trying to say.
I suppose you could draw parallels between Kaneda's physical metamorphosis with her growth as a person (while ironically ultimately becoming something quite inhuman). Sometimes in Franken Fran, as in real life, weird and terrible things just happen. There's not any inherent sense or moral logic to it, and we're left to simply try and sort it out ourselves. Myself, I don't think too hard about possible moral implications and just laugh at the morbid humor.

>>60548
"Hold Me Tight" seemed to give a stronger vibe of that sort than "Chrysalis" did.

>>60557

That got me thinking about it differently.

The guy's infatuation (note: infatuation, not love) with her was based purely on her playing to his ego. In her recovery, he wasn't clinging to "her" as much as the idea of "her."

He spent so much time being obsessed with her one act of flattery that he was blinded to the purposelessness of his endeavor, because she never actually "loved" him either, she felt a debt she owed. I don't know why I didn't see it, but they never really talked about each other/themselves directly aside from "hey remember that one time you cheered me on?"

I think the lesson was that "insect biology probably just isn't a good thing to mix with humans", or "if you're going to bang your half-mantis girlfriend, feed her an entire chicken as foreplay first."

>>60559
>"if you're going to bang your half-mantis girlfriend, feed her an entire chicken as foreplay first."

Also applicable for spider-girls. Certain species require the male spider to bring a food offering as part of courtship.

>>60427
>Talking with friend about this release
F: "Man does human flesh really takes like spam?"
Me: "Yeah like a salty pork, didnt you know?"
F: "Of course not-wait. How did you know?"

You know I have no idea why I already knew that. God I hope I picked it up from a documentary or somthing.

>>60602
Well, it's not really that hard a thing to assume, honestly. Biologically, we're very similar to pigs. There's a reason we do so much medical testing with them.

>>60602
>>60608
And it implies volumes about the love affair the world has with Bacon.

>>60602
>>60608
Funny that, I was watching River Monsters last night, and in Papua New Guinea human flesh has the moniker "long pork". I also recall hearing some time ago that the phrase "two-legged pork" was used in another country in which cannibalism was a common practice.

>>60612
Food for thought.

Is there anything you'd suggest I check out in the meantime that's similar?

Questionable medicine, SCIENCE, easily digestible (i.e. something I won't have to read 500 pages of to enjoy)?

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/v06/c049/1.html
"I wonder what kind of shenanigans we're up to this ti-"
>Gavrill is a substitute teacher
Holy shit I can't even breathe

>>61035
Great chapter, but I still thought the funniest thing was the joke edit the scanlators included in the end.

>the bonus chapter
Damn
>Gavrill is planning to just swim the ocean until she hits land
Awesome

>>61035
I want this to be its own spinoff so badly.

>>61035
>substitute teacher Gavrill
Oh gods. That was amazing. :D

>bonus chapter
Poor cop. Not even an army of her clones can catch a break.
Also, damn, Gavrill be hardcore.

Chapter 50 is up.
DDL - http://www.mediafire.com/?c5yxtu6o0nq3jov

I like how Katsuhisa Kigitsu manages to inject a bit of social commentary in the most hilarious and wtf-inducing ways. Also, this chapter reminds me: I'd really like to get some pet triops.

Japan...doesn't like old people?

>>61376
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7084749.stm

>>61377

So Japan doesn't like old people...because the young people aren't having kids?

>>61378
Just think for a moment what people not having kids implies for a society at large and the distribution of age groups in it. And what young people having to care for the elderly might have to do with that.

>>61378
Its more they don't like old people, because "they refuse to die and just keep leaching of us, the younger generation, despite outnumbering us."

>>61379

Amerifriend here. It's 2011. The babyboomers start retiring this year. That's ~24% of our entire population dropping out of the workforce and entering into social security and Medicare.

...We're mostly glad over here. This gives young people a chance to control the labor market for the first time in contemporary history. Sure, there are some major changes coming for retirement planning, but why blame retirees for retiring?

Have people been writing in, demanding to know how these things taste?

>>61387

I was honestly expecting it to turn into some kind of DRINK THE BLOOD OF OUR ELDERS but it went the other way.

>>61372
It seemed kind of weird for them to just suddenly find a bunch of similar cases at the end.

Also, why is a Japanese woman born in the 19th century named Sue? Was that just supposed to be a joke itself?

>>61381
I'm not going to strongly express an opinion for something I don't understand, but I've definitely heard far more people seeing that as a bad thing.

New chapter is finally up.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/v07/c051/1.html

...I'm not the only one who's getting really tired of the Sentinel subplot, am I?
I get that Katsuhisa likes doing Kamen Rider parodies, but it's getting kind of annoying at this point.

>>63203
I don't have a problem with Sentinel stuff in of itself, but this chapter ended way to abruptly.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/v07/c052/1.html

Bump for new chapter(s)

>>64262

>Octopus

I can't tell if this is a fascination with octopuses worked into manga or the other way around.

Either way I don't get why incestend yet again. Is it really popular in Japan?

>>64268
Are you kidding? About a quarter of the h-stuff out there is incest . I dont know why but its a popular fetish.

>>64274
Off the top of my head I'd guess because with Japan's piss-poor birth rate, the likelihood of having a sibling is fairly rare and thus has the appeal of the unknown.

>>64262
Poor Veronica.

HNNNNGH

No one mentioned the two latest chapters yet?
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_furan/v07/c054/1.html
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_furan/v07/c055/1.html

If Blofeld from the James Bond films was a huge otaku.

>>64804
Whoa, holy shit.
I know Kuhou is kind of the series punching bag, but, wow. Turning her into a murderous bug girl? Wasn't exactly expecting that.

>>64804

Aw come on, she doesn't even get the favor of a separate clone to go off and be semi-normal this time?

Off topic, I re-read the Substitute Teacher Gavril chapter again and god damn it if I didn't wanna see more of that. So good.

>>60560
Technically, the males bring the food to DISTRACT the females. Their sperm is in a special forelimb that can be used after they're killed so they tend to bring something for the female to be preoccupied with so they can do the deed and run the hell away.