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Black Paradox
Empat orang yang punya keinginan bunuh diri saling mengenal lewat situs bunuh diri yang disebut “Black Paradox”.
Ada Maruso, seorang perawat yang gelisah akan masa depan. Taburo, yang menderita oleh kemunculan doppelganger. Piitan, ilmuwan yang memiliki robot mirip dengan dirinya. Serta Baracchi, yang menderita akibat tanda lahir di wajahnya.
Pintu apakah yang dibuka oleh mereka dalam perjalanan mencari kematian yang sempurna!?
Selain cerita Black Paradox, buku ini juga memuat dua cerita lepas terkenal lainnya.
Ada Maruso, seorang perawat yang gelisah akan masa depan. Taburo, yang menderita oleh kemunculan doppelganger. Piitan, ilmuwan yang memiliki robot mirip dengan dirinya. Serta Baracchi, yang menderita akibat tanda lahir di wajahnya.
Pintu apakah yang dibuka oleh mereka dalam perjalanan mencari kematian yang sempurna!?
Selain cerita Black Paradox, buku ini juga memuat dua cerita lepas terkenal lainnya.
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Junji Ito
223 books14.8k followersJunji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.
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March 27, 2021
Here's to another cycle of sleepless nights and nightmares!!!
August 25, 2022
Another creepy-ass story from Junji Ito. This one seems to be a bit more polarizing than his others but I really enjoyed it. Bizarre as ever. (Also, all the trigger warnings are implied in any of his books but this one is a bit more suicidy than some of his others.)
March 24, 2023
It has been some time since I’ve read manga or a graphic novel. It has been even longer since I’ve read anything related to the horror genre. I am very grateful Black Paradox caught my eye at the bookstore. I enjoyed every aspect of this book and my reading experience.
There are six separate stories or chapters, and a bonus story. Each one involves a group of four people who met online and formed a suicide pact. Each story has a supernatural or macabre element that keeps all members of the group from finishing the act/completing the pact. It is not as dark as it sounds.
I am a huge fan of the Netflix series Black Mirror and Love, Death, & Robots. Black Paradox has a similar feel and experience. If you are a fan of these series or Supernatural, Stranger Things, and the X-Files, I think you would enjoy this book.
There are six separate stories or chapters, and a bonus story. Each one involves a group of four people who met online and formed a suicide pact. Each story has a supernatural or macabre element that keeps all members of the group from finishing the act/completing the pact. It is not as dark as it sounds.
I am a huge fan of the Netflix series Black Mirror and Love, Death, & Robots. Black Paradox has a similar feel and experience. If you are a fan of these series or Supernatural, Stranger Things, and the X-Files, I think you would enjoy this book.
October 5, 2019
Como la mayoría de las obras de Ito, una locura total, pero de esas locuras fascinantes, morbosas, que te hacen sentir rara. La historia es muy original y retorcida, y a pesar de que me encantó, no lo considero este manga de mis favoritos del querido Junji.
September 4, 2022
Four desperate people meet on a site called Black Paradox and arrange their group suicide. But their attempt takes an unexpected turn as they discover a gateway to the afterlife and a precious - but dangerous - resource called Paradonite that’s going to change the world…
Junji Ito’s 2009 manga Black Paradox, translated in English for the first time this year, starts off really well, in a incredibly barmy very Junji Ito-way, and then unfortunately becomes quite dull for the rest of the book.
The opening chapter is like a demented fever dream as the four main characters meet and, en route to their death site, they share their reasons for dying. I won’t give anything away here but it’s one bonkers horror twist after another. It’s not so much terrifying as it is hilariously mental and also undeniably enthralling.
The second chapter starts comedically too as the group convene to attempt suicide once more via pills this time before even that descends into weird farce. If the whole book had been this incompetent group trying, and failing, to off themselves, I would’ve been fine with it. Sadly, this is where the meat of the story begins as one of the group starts vomiting up glowing balls and we get into the whole spirit world/Paradonite nonsense for the rest of the narrative. (The one continuation of this opening act’s storyline is the robot repeatedly trying to kill itself for no reason throughout the book - it’s so funny!)
Without getting into spoilers, it’s just very repetitive as they set about trying to harvest these balls in a variety of different ways even though it’s not especially clear why they’re immediately identified as so valuable given how dangerous and strange their properties are. Things become even more convoluted when a mad doctor gets involved and the group - now bizarrely calling themselves Black Paradox like they’re a rock band/superhero team - “know” where it’s all headed, even though those revelations only throw up more questions.
So Junji Ito’s still not a great writer, but then he never really has been or seems likely to develop into one at this point, nor does it seem to matter to his ever-growing fanbase anyway. His narrative idiosyncrasies though are what make his comics so unique - I can’t say I’ve ever read a story like Black Paradox before.
Ito’s artwork is Ito’s artwork - it’s the same as it appears in most of his books, no better or worse, though it remains very high quality. Also included in this edition is a short, full colour story called Strange Pavilion that’s completely pointless. Set in 2105, cormorants are apparently extinct so future people bioengineer a way to bring them back - with kerazy results!
Junji Ito can write semi-interesting longform stories like Uzumaki and Gyo that are more successful than Black Paradox. I just found this book to be mostly uninteresting in the repetitive actions of mining this precious mineral. It’s got a cracking opening chapter though that might be worth checking the book out purely for that, and I’m sure Ito fans will pick this up regardless. Overall, Black Paradox didn’t do much for me and I found it mostly boring.
Junji Ito’s 2009 manga Black Paradox, translated in English for the first time this year, starts off really well, in a incredibly barmy very Junji Ito-way, and then unfortunately becomes quite dull for the rest of the book.
The opening chapter is like a demented fever dream as the four main characters meet and, en route to their death site, they share their reasons for dying. I won’t give anything away here but it’s one bonkers horror twist after another. It’s not so much terrifying as it is hilariously mental and also undeniably enthralling.
The second chapter starts comedically too as the group convene to attempt suicide once more via pills this time before even that descends into weird farce. If the whole book had been this incompetent group trying, and failing, to off themselves, I would’ve been fine with it. Sadly, this is where the meat of the story begins as one of the group starts vomiting up glowing balls and we get into the whole spirit world/Paradonite nonsense for the rest of the narrative. (The one continuation of this opening act’s storyline is the robot repeatedly trying to kill itself for no reason throughout the book - it’s so funny!)
Without getting into spoilers, it’s just very repetitive as they set about trying to harvest these balls in a variety of different ways even though it’s not especially clear why they’re immediately identified as so valuable given how dangerous and strange their properties are. Things become even more convoluted when a mad doctor gets involved and the group - now bizarrely calling themselves Black Paradox like they’re a rock band/superhero team - “know” where it’s all headed, even though those revelations only throw up more questions.
So Junji Ito’s still not a great writer, but then he never really has been or seems likely to develop into one at this point, nor does it seem to matter to his ever-growing fanbase anyway. His narrative idiosyncrasies though are what make his comics so unique - I can’t say I’ve ever read a story like Black Paradox before.
Ito’s artwork is Ito’s artwork - it’s the same as it appears in most of his books, no better or worse, though it remains very high quality. Also included in this edition is a short, full colour story called Strange Pavilion that’s completely pointless. Set in 2105, cormorants are apparently extinct so future people bioengineer a way to bring them back - with kerazy results!
Junji Ito can write semi-interesting longform stories like Uzumaki and Gyo that are more successful than Black Paradox. I just found this book to be mostly uninteresting in the repetitive actions of mining this precious mineral. It’s got a cracking opening chapter though that might be worth checking the book out purely for that, and I’m sure Ito fans will pick this up regardless. Overall, Black Paradox didn’t do much for me and I found it mostly boring.
November 27, 2022
Black Paradoz is s suicide website that brings four people together to kill themselves, but the story goes way off that course, finally. Maruso’s a nurse who is despondent about the future; Taburo is driven mad by his doppelganger; Pii-tan is an engineer with his own robot clone, and Baracchi is a girl with a strange birthmark on her face that she hates. Early on they all seem to take pills, but it turns out no one actually dies.
But that’s only the start of what is a typical, over-the-top Ito story. The horror story, with plenty of body horror, is also a sci-fi story with some kind of commentary (capitalism? Climate change--the need for new energy sources--on the production of some kind of energy gems called paradonite that is derived from. . ..uh, souls?!! . . . oh, well, it’s too crazy to get into it. It's all part of the fever dream that Ito's stories build to, the place of extreme fear and madness. But the final question is: Will these four save humanity?! And why would you trust these four sad-sack crazies to do anything? Maybe that's the point, that you wouldn't?
Oh, it’s paradoxical, all right. I would say to Ito, if I were his writing buddy or agent: Cut down on the number of aspects of the story, simplify. Cut the crazy let's say 30%. But who am I telling the mangaka Ito? This is what he does.
But that’s only the start of what is a typical, over-the-top Ito story. The horror story, with plenty of body horror, is also a sci-fi story with some kind of commentary (capitalism? Climate change--the need for new energy sources--on the production of some kind of energy gems called paradonite that is derived from. . ..uh, souls?!! . . . oh, well, it’s too crazy to get into it. It's all part of the fever dream that Ito's stories build to, the place of extreme fear and madness. But the final question is: Will these four save humanity?! And why would you trust these four sad-sack crazies to do anything? Maybe that's the point, that you wouldn't?
Oh, it’s paradoxical, all right. I would say to Ito, if I were his writing buddy or agent: Cut down on the number of aspects of the story, simplify. Cut the crazy let's say 30%. But who am I telling the mangaka Ito? This is what he does.
November 11, 2022
I absolutely loved this! What a fun, unique story with some really gross elements. I think this is one of my favorite Junji Ito pieces (though I feel like I've said that about the last few of his books I reviewed!). The characters are three-dimensional, the twists are exciting, and the whole plot is that perfect blend of bizarre and delightful that Junji Ito is so well-known for. I highly recommend this for any horror manga lovers!
Thank you to the publisher for the review copy! All thoughts are honest and my own.
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July 12, 2018
¡Qué locurón! Veamos. Cuatro jóvenes, que se han conocido a través de Internet, deciden reunirse para suicidarse juntos, algo que parece demasiado habitual en Japón. Sin embargo, no resultará tan sencillo, ya que enseguida empezarán a suceder hechos extraños a su alrededor. Y es tal la locura que se alcanza en ‘Black Paradox’ (Black Paradox, 2009), de Junji Ito, que me niego a contar nada más. El manga se completa con dos relatos cortos, ‘El pabellón de lo paranormal‘ y ‘La Lamedora’. Inquietante, perturbador y surrealista. Hay que leer a Junji Ito.
April 18, 2024
Black Paradox is a great choice if you fancy a dark Junji Ito tale; tw:// suicide themes!
A group of four people, who are intent on taking their own lives, meet on an online suicide forum called Black Paradox. They then introduce themselves to each other in real life as their screen-names; Maruso, Taburo, Pii-Tan, and Baracchi.
{Maruso instantly reminded me of Tomie! Making me finally want to reread that soon after many years.}
We then find out individually why the characters all suffer with their suicidal ideations, as they search for the perfect death. But they end up opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny…!
There’s plenty of iconic Ito imagery throughout, of course it doesn’t hold up on the body-horror goodness!
The bonus story at the end, Strange Pavilion is in colour and the artwork looks truly gorgeous! Always find myself thoroughly impressed by Ito’s work.
4.6 Stars
A group of four people, who are intent on taking their own lives, meet on an online suicide forum called Black Paradox. They then introduce themselves to each other in real life as their screen-names; Maruso, Taburo, Pii-Tan, and Baracchi.
{Maruso instantly reminded me of Tomie! Making me finally want to reread that soon after many years.}
We then find out individually why the characters all suffer with their suicidal ideations, as they search for the perfect death. But they end up opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny…!
There’s plenty of iconic Ito imagery throughout, of course it doesn’t hold up on the body-horror goodness!
The bonus story at the end, Strange Pavilion is in colour and the artwork looks truly gorgeous! Always find myself thoroughly impressed by Ito’s work.
4.6 Stars
October 8, 2025
While I’m not necessarily new to junji this was officially my first ever dive into his literary works he’s best known for and truly story aside, you really can see and appreciate the eeriness and darkness of his world and inner psyche through the incredible use of shading and drawn imagery and while it always seems to lean into the grotesque and absurd, it also from a step back becomes more profound, with a somewhat clear warning or message either way leaves you upon the last pages with that tingle a good scary story tickled your spine like when you were a child. The concept was a bit bizarre and probably an odd place to start their works, but I can’t say I wasn’t thoroughly impressed with the entire piece for what it is and with it being the chilling spooky time of year, I might just have to hunt down some more of his works because this just vibed.
April 26, 2023
Wow. I've read Junji Ito's works before, but this was the first stand-alone I read in full. Based on the blurb, I was expecting this to be more firmly in the horror genre, but it definitely belongs in fantasy and sci-fi as well. And I'm not just lumping those together; it fully exists in all three genres separately. It's quite an impressive feat to pull off actually--without going to space at least. I have always loved Ito's artwork; it has a creepy feel to it that immediately makes you feel uneasy--if pressed to explain why though, I'm not sure I could. My only issue with it--and reason for 4 instead of 5 stars--is the disjointedness of the first two chapters from the rest. I also feel like maybe something got edited out, or the author forgot to put a few panels in to clear up a plot hole or two for the reader, but either way, it was still a great book. I highly recommend it for horror, dark fantasy, and dark sci-fi lovers ages 16 and up.
December 24, 2022
3.5 stars
As always, the artwork is brilliant. The setup book was fantastic but I will admit that I did not completely love the execution of the idea. The narrative was just a little unwieldy for my tastes.
As always, the artwork is brilliant. The setup book was fantastic but I will admit that I did not completely love the execution of the idea. The narrative was just a little unwieldy for my tastes.
January 17, 2023
I tried to hold back. I tried to savour it as I'm running out of unread Junji Ito stuff. Then I gobbled it up in like an hour or so. Damn.
December 16, 2021
Clubs de suicidio; doppelgänger, sombras y dobles que viven al otro lado del espejo; portales al mundo de los espíritus en el píloro (me encanta decir «píloro»); esferas de minerales misteriosos que albergan almas y que podrían ser la solución energética para el futuro de Japón (o no); mucha gente deshaciéndose, deforme y asquerosa... vamos, todo lo que os podáis imaginar que puede salir del pozo de locura y horror que es la mente de Junji Ito. Tiene momentos maravillosos, aunque el final me parece un poco flojo. Eso sí, la historia extra de «La lamedora» es una delicia de principio a fin.
November 2, 2022
"Every time I see my face in the mirror, I lose the desire to live. I just know… the me in the mirror is saying Die. Die."
The master of horror manga is back with his strangest tale yet. He uses Japanese history to create a story we haven't seen before. It's a wild one about making a suicide pact with strangers. What could possibly go wrong?
Ito amazes me every single damn time. I always think that he can never outdo his last book and I'm wrong. His stories get even more bizarre as time goes on and I love it. The art is amazing and so is the story. This is one that I'll be recommending to everyone.
The master of horror manga is back with his strangest tale yet. He uses Japanese history to create a story we haven't seen before. It's a wild one about making a suicide pact with strangers. What could possibly go wrong?
Ito amazes me every single damn time. I always think that he can never outdo his last book and I'm wrong. His stories get even more bizarre as time goes on and I love it. The art is amazing and so is the story. This is one that I'll be recommending to everyone.
December 31, 2022
Lo que más me ha gustado ha sido ver como la sinopsis se desvanecía en una nebulosa desde el primer capítulo y todo se iba volviendo cada vez más y más extraña, pero finalmente, conseguía engarzarse y tener cierto sentido.
No es lo mejor que he leído de Ito, pero aún así, sus ideas, giros y situaciones alocadas siguen situándolo como el maestro que es.
Pronto, reseña más extensa por el blog :)
No es lo mejor que he leído de Ito, pero aún así, sus ideas, giros y situaciones alocadas siguen situándolo como el maestro que es.
Pronto, reseña más extensa por el blog :)
June 26, 2017
This is by the far the best Junji Ito novel I have ever read. What starts out as a bizarre suicide story on a micro level expands as the plot progresses, ending up with a macro sci-fi story reminiscent of a warped, dark and twisted version of the X-Men. Some images were absolutely nauseating and have been burned into my retinas. Pure brilliance.
January 1, 2023
Black Paradox - 3/5
Strange Pavilion - 2/5
Strange Pavilion - 2/5
June 24, 2025
now this was captivating in a way, the first chapter with all the imposter stuff was pretty creepy and morbid. not my fav by him, but still pretty good. guess all the characters got what they wanted in the end. everyone was so greedy in this, realistic in that sense lol
October 17, 2018
Ágil y entretenido este manga, espera terror duro y gore y me gustó que fuera más intriga y un terror suave, con unas criaturas fanásticas.
December 27, 2015
I am not really disappointed but I am surely as hell not to be pleased with how the concept ends. I got really bored after Pitan's robot came back etc but the whole gemstone's idea isn't so bad. I just wish the story ends with even a better conclusion/plot twist.
July 10, 2015
Terror japonés con toques lovecraftianos. Eso es lo que te espera si vas a leer Black Paradox. Hay gente que dice que le ha dado miedo; a mí no. En mi caso no lo describiría como miedo, sino más bien como cierta inquietud: algunas escenas son repugnantemente impactantes, tanto de forma visual como moral.
La historia no se parece a nada que haya leído con anterioridad y me ha dejado con ganas de leer más cosas de Junji Ito. La propuesta es interesante, el desarrollo sorprendente y en definitiva es un manga que he disfrutado mucho. Una de sus grandes ventajas es que se trata de un tomo único, porque últimamente las colecciones de manga me dan mucha pereza (algunas son interminables).
Creo que no puedo decir mucho más, porque es una historia para descubrir poco a poco y madurar, pero sin duda me parece una obra más que recomendable.
Al final se incluye una historia corta extra, que no tiene nada que ver con Black Paradox, y que también es muy inquietante y me ha gustado mucho. Se trata de La Lamedora, donde una siniestra mujer con una descomunal lengua envenenada se dedica a sembrar el caos en una pequeña población japonesa, asesinando con sus lametazos a todo el que se le pone por delante. La atmósfera es realmente opresiva, y el diseño de la mujer da bastante grima.
Un saludo,
Carol Rodríguez
La historia no se parece a nada que haya leído con anterioridad y me ha dejado con ganas de leer más cosas de Junji Ito. La propuesta es interesante, el desarrollo sorprendente y en definitiva es un manga que he disfrutado mucho. Una de sus grandes ventajas es que se trata de un tomo único, porque últimamente las colecciones de manga me dan mucha pereza (algunas son interminables).
Creo que no puedo decir mucho más, porque es una historia para descubrir poco a poco y madurar, pero sin duda me parece una obra más que recomendable.
Al final se incluye una historia corta extra, que no tiene nada que ver con Black Paradox, y que también es muy inquietante y me ha gustado mucho. Se trata de La Lamedora, donde una siniestra mujer con una descomunal lengua envenenada se dedica a sembrar el caos en una pequeña población japonesa, asesinando con sus lametazos a todo el que se le pone por delante. La atmósfera es realmente opresiva, y el diseño de la mujer da bastante grima.
Un saludo,
Carol Rodríguez
September 29, 2023
Junji Ito is easily my favorite Horror manga writer ever, and so this summer I decided I would go through a lot of his works and enjoy them! Unlike most of his works which come as collections, Black Paradox is one story written in a longer form. It is both spooky and beautifully grotesque to read. I still to this day (many months later) think about the characters in this story, and how the story unfolded so unfortunately for them all.
Junji Ito is a master artist. In one panel he can show you the most disgusting, gory images that will stick in your brain for years, and in the next panel have a gorgeous, beautiful landscape that would easily belong in a museum alone. What he doesn’t actually say or describe in written text, he does easily enough through his artwork. His style of horror artwork is always shocking, sometimes hard to even look at…but that’s what makes it powerful.
I have seen a lot of reviews mentioning that this is not their favorite of Junji Ito’s works and I can understand that. For me it is not my favorite either BUT I truly did enjoy reading it and WOW the artwork in this one is incredible. It made me feel gross to read some of it, and full worry for the characters in others and I think that is a key point in this…not all writers or artists can make someone truly FEEL, but Junji Ito always does!
Junji Ito is a master artist. In one panel he can show you the most disgusting, gory images that will stick in your brain for years, and in the next panel have a gorgeous, beautiful landscape that would easily belong in a museum alone. What he doesn’t actually say or describe in written text, he does easily enough through his artwork. His style of horror artwork is always shocking, sometimes hard to even look at…but that’s what makes it powerful.
I have seen a lot of reviews mentioning that this is not their favorite of Junji Ito’s works and I can understand that. For me it is not my favorite either BUT I truly did enjoy reading it and WOW the artwork in this one is incredible. It made me feel gross to read some of it, and full worry for the characters in others and I think that is a key point in this…not all writers or artists can make someone truly FEEL, but Junji Ito always does!
January 5, 2023
A suicide pact amongst four people twists and warps into a bizarre and heavy-handed parable about humanity's greed and its self-destructive pursuit of energy sources. It's all a little dumb and a little dull though, with wooden and shallow characters whose terrible fates could barely stir a shrug in me.
The ratio of panels with body horror to those with people just talking was way too low, and the gore -- while it had a couple moments -- wasn't on par with what you'd expect from Junji Ito.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Chapter 1. Group Suicide -- Chapter 2. A Peculiar Pylorus -- Chapter 3. Pardonite -- Chapter 4. Dr. Suga's Cottage -- Chapter 5. The Spirit World Project -- Final Chapter. Toward a Dazzling Future -- Bonus Story: Strange Pavilion
The ratio of panels with body horror to those with people just talking was way too low, and the gore -- while it had a couple moments -- wasn't on par with what you'd expect from Junji Ito.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Chapter 1. Group Suicide -- Chapter 2. A Peculiar Pylorus -- Chapter 3. Pardonite -- Chapter 4. Dr. Suga's Cottage -- Chapter 5. The Spirit World Project -- Final Chapter. Toward a Dazzling Future -- Bonus Story: Strange Pavilion
September 1, 2024
This is one of Junji Ito’s longer stories that spans several chapters. Although some readers found it a bit disappointing, I think it’s pretty solid.
If you’ve watched Stranger Things, you’ll definitely catch some familiar vibes while reading this one from Ito.
Hmm I don’t know, maybe I should dive into Uzumaki first—it’s known as Junji Ito’s magnum opus.
If you’ve watched Stranger Things, you’ll definitely catch some familiar vibes while reading this one from Ito.
Hmm I don’t know, maybe I should dive into Uzumaki first—it’s known as Junji Ito’s magnum opus.
January 5, 2023
A little too sci-fi for me & not as many shocking moments as usual. Not my fave of his by any means, but I still absolutely love his work ♡
August 21, 2024
Not bad. Vaguely unsettling but not up to Ito's usual high standards in my opinion.
March 17, 2021
Has Ito's deadly sin of taking a great first chapter that would be amazing as a standalone short story and then turning it into a cumbersome, wonderless horror narrative. Ito is one of the best shortform horror artists in any medium, but I really do have reservations about the rest.
January 28, 2024
I don't love a lot of Junji Itos shorter stories but I really liked this one, especially the beginning. Very interesting characters from him, love their backstories and has a lot of great art🙏🖤
February 11, 2023
3.5
This one starts off with four characters driving off to commit suicide...
The fact that it's more than 10 pages long should tell you it's not quite that straightforward..
From there it moves into very strange choices and becomes very bizarre
Better than some recent offerings...which seemed like fleshed out stories from years ago
This one starts off with four characters driving off to commit suicide...
The fact that it's more than 10 pages long should tell you it's not quite that straightforward..
From there it moves into very strange choices and becomes very bizarre
Better than some recent offerings...which seemed like fleshed out stories from years ago
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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