An excellently impeccable work. Both its art, characters and psychology convey a macabre tone of horror. Heavy scenes, traumas, extremism, everything here has a very well-built motivation to happen, and it is far from being gratuitous. The shocking tone is beyond the physical, it is through the psychological.

The art is incredible when it comes to representing emotions through close-ups, not to mention that it is also very well drawn, Hideo Yamamoto managed to make many panels that are genuinely disturbing and filled with meaning.

The dialogues tend to be incredible, there are great mind games and Nakoshi’s attempts to pull the trauma out of the characters and it’s extremely captivating and immersive.

All of its characters have incredible developments, all of them, even the secondary ones have something to highlight that is very well done; they are there to assist in the plot, and they succeed with mastery. As for those with real focus and the 2 protagonists, they shine and evolve in an incredible way, Nakoshi has an admirable deconstruction.

Part of the manga brings a lot of Nakoshi's past but it is very well used to reflect the current state of the plot, and that only contributes to the development of this incredible character.

The last chapters of Homunculus are the peak of Nakoshi, where he reached his maximum psychological pressure and simply loses his head, and these chapters yield one of the best endings in any manga I’ve read.