Surgery
This is a famous (and very dark) Japanese internet horror meme comic commonly known as “The Surgery” or “Shujutsu” (手術 = surgery). It’s a short “jump-scare” style story told in panels that deliberately misleads the reader before delivering a brutal twist. Here’s what actually happens, step by step:
1. A vain or beauty-obsessed woman decides to get extensive plastic surgery (the “SURGERY” sign, her lying on the operating table with anesthesia mask, etc.).
2. She goes under anesthesia and the operation begins.
3. She wakes up mid-surgery, bald, terrified, screaming in pain while the doctors continue operating on her open abdomen.
4. In panic she jumps off the table and tries to escape.
5. A male doctor (sometimes interpreted as her boyfriend or husband) chases her down the hallway.
6. He catches her, knocks her out / subdues her, and drags her back.
7. The nurses are now drawn as grotesque, zombie-like creatures, implying something has gone horribly wrong (or that this is no normal hospital).
8. Final twist (the actual punchline):
The last proper panel shows the surgeons pulling a giant, fully formed **homunculus-like copy of the male doctor** out of her open torso.
The very last panel shows her awake again on the table, now grinning maniacally with wide eyes while holding scissors, clearly driven insane, as the “new man” sits up from inside her body.
The intended meaning / urban-legend explanation that circulates with it:
The woman was so obsessed with her boyfriend/husband that she secretly underwent an illegal, experimental surgery to **grow a perfect clone of him inside her own body** so she could literally “give birth” to him and keep him forever. The surgery is a success (they extract the full-grown clone), but the trauma turns her insane.
That’s why the meme ends with her laughing like a maniac while the clone-doctor is “born” from her abdomen. It’s body horror + yandere obsession taken to the absolute extreme.
It’s deliberately drawn in a crude, sketchy style and paced like a normal cute/sad story until the last few panels, which is why it’s so effective as a screamer-style shock comic online.