Pure Trance
After the Third World War leaves Earth's surface toxic, humanity retreats underground and survives with the help of a life-sustaining pill called Pure Trance. The drug creates a new social crisis: hyperorexia, an uncontrollable need to eat. The story begins inside Over Eaters Treatment Center 102, a hospital ruled by the tyrannical direct
Synopsis
After the Third World War leaves Earth's surface toxic, humanity retreats underground and survives with the help of a life-sustaining pill called Pure Trance. The drug creates a new social crisis: hyperorexia, an uncontrollable need to eat. The story begins inside Over Eaters Treatment Center 102, a hospital ruled by the tyrannical director Keiko Yamazaki, where nurses and patients endure abuse, bizarre medical experiments and a culture twisted by food, beauty, celebrity and control. From there the manga spirals into alien encounters, body modification, pop-idol obsession and grotesque science-fiction satire.
Pure Trance is Junko Mizuno's first major long-form manga and already contains the cute-grotesque visual language that became her signature. The book deliberately mixes shoujo aesthetics with body horror, consumer satire, techno culture and post-apocalyptic science fiction. Its hospital setting gives the early chapters a clear center, but the narrative quickly expands into an unpredictable collage of cruelty, desire, pop culture and surreal adventure rather than following a conventional hero's journey.
9 Chapters
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Pure Trance should never be presented as a conventional shoujo romance. The defining visual identity is Junko Mizuno's cute-grotesque collision of pastel femininity, food, medical imagery, body horror and retro-futurist techno culture.
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