由久米田康治原作的《绝望先生》,于2005年开始在讲谈社周刊少年Magazine连载。作品是以12页的独立单元式短篇开展故事,在每一话中,大量渗入对日本的社会现象及自我的嘲讽,并基于作者本身的学识,使用自行创作或特定的词彙,带出有关事件,以及有关的笑点。因此作品内隐藏(或不明显)的物件及文字、让知情者会心微笑的时事材料、诙谐式模彷及笑话的内容,成为作品的最大特色。后来根据本作改编的两季TV动画、在新房昭之监督的带领下更是展现出不失原作风格的魅力。
之前曾推出两部动画版的「绝望先生」,此次迎来了其第三次的动画化。新作标题为「狱・绝望先生」、并决定将以OAD的形式推出。在去年推出的「翼 TOKYO REVELATIONS」OAD版大获成功之后,最近讲谈社旗下的作品推出的OAD初回限定版都是以DVD捆绑漫画来发售,比如即将发售的「魔法先生白之翼」和「校园迷糊大王第三期」,所以此次的「狱・绝望先生」也不会例外。OAD版分为上下两卷,预定于2008年10月17日和2009年2月17日发售,而初回限定版则是分别捆绑漫画第15、16集发售。
Ryan Murphy dropped a teaser for a new series titled Grotesquerie in an Instagram post (see it below) on Friday. According to the post, it will star Niecy Nash-Betts — who has worked with Murphy several times before and is coming off an Emmy win for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville and is set to premiere in the fall.
The teaser features Nash-Betts’ voice, sounding very disturbed about a crime scene: “I don’t know when it started. I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s different now. There’s been a shift. It’s like something’s opening up in the world — a kind of hole to the center of nothingness. What I saw today — they sent shrinks for everyone who worked this crime scene. You think, ‘Well hon, evil has always existed,’ and cite some statistic about how the world’s getting better, less murder, more help, less global horror, never been a better time to be alive, honey.”
Her voice cracking, Nash-Betts (or rather, her character) concludes by saying, “Come back. It’s not getting better. And I keep needing to hear your answers, because something’s happening around us, and nobody sees but me.”