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[body horror] I'm finally reading Franken Fran, so here's the story of its most legendary chapter, Chrysalis
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for the unfamiliar, Franken Fran is about a girl who does fucked up nightmare surgery to help people. horror and dark comedy
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Chrysalis is the second chapter, and involves a boy who asks out his crush, only to get shot down brutally 
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she then immediately afterwards gets hit by a car
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she's too damaged for a normal hospital, so the boy takes her to Fran 
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He promises not to complain, no matter what, as long as he saves her life
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so, Fran gets to work
so, Fran gets to work
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18 hours of intensive surgery later
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Kanade wakes up, feeling
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different
different
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but this is just stage 1 of the recovery process
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a stage that will test the power of Tajima's love
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he keeps coming to see her
he keeps coming to see her
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talks about why he fell for her, which has nothing to do with her looks, so her strange caterpillar body isn't a problem
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just as she's starting to get used to it, Fran reveals that it's time for her to recover her old body again
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she spends a while in the chrysalis, rebuilding her entire body from the neck down
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and emerges, good as new
and emerges, good as new
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having fallen in love, they later head to a love hotel, as Fran wonders if the insect DNA she used will have any side effects
having fallen in love, they later head to a love hotel, as Fran wonders if the insect DNA she used will have any side effects
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probably not
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the
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end
end
Love Snake Kaja
Ah Franken Fran. Loved that manga
Niamh Vibes
Franken Fran has a very precise sense of humor
BattroidBattery
I have not read much franken fran but my understanding of the general pattern is that if you have a choice between being healed by fran and dying you're probably better off dying
Bloodededeborne
Ah yes, I remember this manga!
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this is peak what the fuck shit
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here's another fun one
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Fran stumbles across a murder in progress
Fran stumbles across a murder in progress
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the murderer explains that they were in love but their parents disapproved, so they couldn't be together, so he decided they should die together
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Fran is anti-death and pro-love so she'll figure something out
Fran is anti-death and pro-love so she'll figure something out
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the body's dead
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so she crams all the necessary bits into the head
so she crams all the necessary bits into the head
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something resembling a life continues
something resembling a life continues
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she lost most of her memory from brain damage but she's alive
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Fran gives her some fingers for mobility
Fran gives her some fingers for mobility
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but boy wants her to have a bigger body, so that he can hold her tight
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so, she gets to work on that
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and we learn some things
and we learn some things
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like how he doesn't even know her name
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and she was terrified of him
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and how he's a sociopath
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and also
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she didn't lose her memory
she didn't lose her memory
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and now
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she has a body again
she has a body again
✶ 天鈿女命
YEAH GIRL GET HIM
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god this rules why did I keep not reading it
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a painter going blind goes in for eye surgery so Fran hooks him up with even better eyes that can see colors invisible to normal humans
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but it lets him see the other things
Wild Child
franken fran is so fucked up (mostly affectionate)
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there's an arc with a love triangle where two guys like a girl named Youka and she can't choose between them so Fran splits her into two Youkas
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and the two still can't choose but also hate each other and fight to the death
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and somehow it spirals into a plague of duplicating Youkas threatening to overrun the planet
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and like
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polyamory is simpler than this
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Of6 yeah I loved franken fran!! Iirc it started developing its own plot though and I was thoroughly uninterested, I only wanted the twilight zone "you see that crazy shit?" one shots
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✶ 天鈿女命
'this is kind of almost our fault' god i forgot how much i love her
dragon time
I think it really sells it that Fran is constantly and genuinely like yay, I'm helping!
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she rly is just like lalalala yippee! all the time it's so funny
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yeah Fran's personality makes the series work
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truly, she's doing her best
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her morality is very consistent, it's basically two rules
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1. never let someone die if you can save them
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2. customer is king
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did
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did this just provide a backstory for the flying spaghetti monster
Bloodededeborne
It sure fucking did
Bloodededeborne
I think I went "Oh no" when I first saw where it was going
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say what you will about Fran
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if you have a problem, and she shows up
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then when she's done, you'll have a totally different problem
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she steps in
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how it started
how it started
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how it's going
how it's going
big juicy
i love that she offers up the normal solution of like "have you considered exercise" first
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so you know that everything that comes next stems from this dude's choice
Villain
He probably isn’t being bullied anymore, though