En esta obra maestra del manga de terror marino, Junji Ito nos cuenta la historia de Kaori y Tadashi, una pareja de tokiotas que decide pasar sus vacaciones en Okinawa, cerca del mar. Tras un pequeño incidente de submarinismo con unos tiburones, la pareja decide volver a Tokio... Pero antes de poder regresar, empiezan a encontrarse con extrañas criaturas parecidas a peces. Además, un olor a muerte empieza a impregnar toda la isla. ¿Qué son realmente estos seres? ¿Y qué está causando el hedor?
Junji 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.