Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Franken Fran, Hellboy, Unspeakable Vault, Zenith, Army of Darkness, Caballistics, Inc., The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Neonomicon, Alan Moore's The Courtyard, Necronauts, Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths, H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness, The Five Fists of Science, Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again. Excerpt: Franken Fran Furanken Furan) is a manga from Katsuhisa Kigitsu. It started appearing in Akita Shoten's Champion Red magazine in September, 2006, and it is ongoing. It is a comedy horror starring Fran, a patched up synthetic beauty with an expertise in anatomical remodeling technologies, which she employs in the service of various people. Fran is a girl created by the world's top biologist. She takes care of her creator's mansion while he is away on research. Her life is pretty uneventful, until many different medical cases begin falling in her lap. This manga is very graphic and frequently features scenes of extreme gore, as Fran begins to do more and more intense surgical procedures. There is a fair amount of black humor, as usually each story ends up with Fran having created some sort of gruesome monstrosity from her patients, while in the end answering to their requests - sometimes literally. 1. Brains - A desperate father comes to the mansion in hopes of saving his murdered son. Fran fixes it by combining the brains of father and son in the father's body, resulting in the father's torment. As this is technically the pilot chapter, Fran looks different in comparison to later chapters. 2. Chrysalis - After a boy confesses his love to a girl with no interest in him, she gets hit by a car. Fran sees this, and the boy asks her help to save her. She gives the girl a caterpillar body in order to help. As she rehabilitates, the boy visits her every day. She begins to develop feelings for him as she enters a cocoon state. When she emerges, she has her original body, and leaves with the boy. Later, she eats him out of love, much like an adult, female insect. 3. Take to Pieces - The police seeks Fran's help as body parts begin to pop up all over town. She puts together the ones they gave her, only to find it to be a blob. She tracks down the source of the parts, a teen girl with a very rare type of tumor causing her to grow body parts in excess. Fran saves the girl with an
