It sparks a memory for Yuuji about his grandfather, which leads him to a suspicious artifact seemingly long forgotten. However, when Yuuji sees her through the window, she will point into the garden and chuckle, sleeve riding up to reveal several deep holes in her skin. It follows Yuuji, a boy who becomes curious about his neighbor Rina, who isn’t allowed outside due to a severe illness. “Shiver” is one story that isn’t for those with trypophobia (fear of small holes clustered together). Little did they know that Yuuko was battling a slug of her own…These two stories are further examples of Ito’s ability to create unsettling and upsetting tales by combining disturbing imagery and excellent storytelling. She finds Yuuko’s family in the garden battling the abundance of slugs that have taken residence then. When she hasn’t been at school in a few days, her friend Rie goes to her house to check on her. “Slug Girl,” the more popular of the two stories, centers around Yuuko, a chatty young girl who has suddenly gone quiet. This leads him down a path to try and right a wrong he committed as a child. But when Ryuusuke starts to feel that he is responsible for the death of Midori's aunt, he tries to avoid her. It follows Ryuusuke, a high school student that finds himself in love with a girl in his class named Midori. This episode contains a fairly long story, “Boy at the Crossroads,” and a rather short one, “Slug Girl.” The former tells the story of a town where girls often go to intersections to play a fortune telling game in the hopes of receiving good news about their love lives. Both stories highlight how Ito tells his tales - focusing on building up suspense and unease - and also showcases his use of body horror, particularly in terms of the appearances of Fuchi and Tetsuro. However, Tetsuro’s body is frail and decrepit due to a strange phenomenon that makes his dreams last for years. Kuroda tells her it’s only Tetsuro taking a nightly walk. Mami reports seeing the Grim Reaper walking past her door each night and begins to worry about dying, but Dr. “The Long Dream,” on the other hand, is one of Ito’s most acclaimed works and involves three central characters: a neurosurgery patient named Mami, a psychiatric patient named Tetsuro Mukoda, and their attending physician, Dr. As they film their movie deep in the mountains, it turns out that Iwasaki’s unease was for good reason and that Fuchi was just as monstrous as she seemed. “Fashion Model” centers around screenwriter Iwasaki as he becomes increasingly unsettled with a horrific looking model, Fuchi, that was cast in a film he wrote. Visual horror fans, I recommend giving this one a flick through for sure.This episode contains two rather famous stories. Again, it's all down to the artwork, and the work in this is utterly stunning. If this was a novel or short story, I probably would have only given it 3 stars. This story? It didn't get ten stars for the storyline alone. It's chilling stuff - Google Image search his name and take a look at some of his artwork and you'll see what I mean. Goosebumps raise and you swallow a little as your eyes widen. Somehow, no matter what the story (so far in my readings so far), Ito manages to draw an image that shocks you and gives you chills. The artwork within goru manga can sometimes be a letdown and honestly is the reason I left the genre for a brief period - too many badly drawn or weakly drawn / not shocking enough artwork to go with it. When the storylines are, to a degree, guessable as an avid horror fan, it doesn't surprise me when the stories go the way they do. With the idea of mental instability, you can kind of guess which direction this story heads.Īgain, the artwork. breaks a curse on a tomb, similar to the theories of many Egyptian tombs, and the curse is passed onto his daughters. I believed the game may have taken inspiration from this one-shot, but quickly found this is not the case, although vaguely similar.Īs with many other Ito stories, it comes down to the artwork within this story, for me. Layers of Fear is another simple, not as short (forty-ish pages) one-shot by guro author Junji Ito and made it onto my reading list tonight simply for being a one-shot.Īt first, I was attracted to this after recognising the name from the 2016, psychological horror game of the same name (it's an amazing game, I recommend watching a gameplay of it).
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