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One Missed Call #1-2
One Missed Call 1 + 2
It's an epidemic of accidental death! Multiple college students receive odd voice-mails from themselves, messages from the future, and all they contain are the screams of their own deaths. A few days later, at the date and time of the message's posting, they die in mysterious accidents, and oddly enough, each has a candy in their mouths. Directed in Japan by the famed Takashi Miike, One Missed Call is coming to America. And to celebrate, Dark Horse is delighted to bring you the manga based on the movie. Full of mystery, horror, and suspense. Intensely drafted in Japan by Yasushi Akimoto and Mayumi Shihou, One Missed Call might make you think twice about pressing the answer button.
264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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March 29, 2011
Part of my cleaning out my cabinets. When I updated my manga database last week I stumbled on this one. It must have been one of those splurge purchases and then I had to read all the new manga for my book -so I never got around to reading it. Tonight I read it while watching a re-run on TV.
This one was not for me at all. I like horror, I like Japanese horror. But I did not like this. It was very hard for me to follow. The character designs were too similar and I kept confusing who was alive and who was dead and who was dying next. I don't typically have this problem with manga (and those who know me, know I read manga!) so it really threw me. The plot was compacted together in a way that made the pacing feel very rushed. I guess it really just didn't work for me.
This one was not for me at all. I like horror, I like Japanese horror. But I did not like this. It was very hard for me to follow. The character designs were too similar and I kept confusing who was alive and who was dead and who was dying next. I don't typically have this problem with manga (and those who know me, know I read manga!) so it really threw me. The plot was compacted together in a way that made the pacing feel very rushed. I guess it really just didn't work for me.
February 4, 2025
This felt so boring, confusing and rushed. If I hadn’t watched the film many years ago I would have had no idea what was going on, i thought it might have been because i dont typically read manga but the reviews are all very similar no matter who has read this..
March 15, 2019
Rating: one and a half stars
As a massive fan of Takashi Miike, I was surprised I hadn't ever heard of the manga for One Missed Call. Being one of my first Miike movies, I've always had a small soft spot for the franchise, so upon finding the manga series, I immediately rushed into it.
My average manga score was finally starting to increase and look better, sigh.
This was pretty much an insult to Takashi Miike's franchise. An insult is pretty much putting it nicely.
The artwork just seemed lazy with two of the characters in the second volume looking so similar you couldn't tell them apart. The story followed the film exactly with literally no differences. The second volume was so rushed, there was no telling what was going on even with knowledge from the film. Again, the artwork just looked simple and basic as though the artist didn't even care about what they were doing.
This was just an overall mess and I can't even describe how much of a mess it was. Watch the films, skip this and thank me for it later.
As a massive fan of Takashi Miike, I was surprised I hadn't ever heard of the manga for One Missed Call. Being one of my first Miike movies, I've always had a small soft spot for the franchise, so upon finding the manga series, I immediately rushed into it.
My average manga score was finally starting to increase and look better, sigh.
This was pretty much an insult to Takashi Miike's franchise. An insult is pretty much putting it nicely.
The artwork just seemed lazy with two of the characters in the second volume looking so similar you couldn't tell them apart. The story followed the film exactly with literally no differences. The second volume was so rushed, there was no telling what was going on even with knowledge from the film. Again, the artwork just looked simple and basic as though the artist didn't even care about what they were doing.
This was just an overall mess and I can't even describe how much of a mess it was. Watch the films, skip this and thank me for it later.
February 21, 2019
Al igual que otras personas que aquí han escrito, encontré este comic bastante mediocre, con una línea muy confusa y difícil de seguir. Y no es que con esto piense que todas las adaptaciones de película a comic sean malas, solo que esta no cuaja.
January 23, 2023
la gente tenía razón el libro es un poco caótico, la verdad es que no me he enterado muy bien de lo que ha pasado pero aún así ha estado bastante interesante el tema, lo único que hace falta pulir un poco más la historia y algunos detalles más
April 1, 2020
Confusing story because of too much plot holes. Also, confusing placement of speech bubbles.
October 19, 2021
Great idea for a comic book, but it didn´t turn out as good as I was hoping for.
August 17, 2023
1.5 stars.
Unfortunately, I found this really boring. Part 2 was slightly more interesting but it still really dragged.
Unfortunately, I found this really boring. Part 2 was slightly more interesting but it still really dragged.
February 11, 2017
Though I knee the general plot (victims get a phone call post-dated at the time of their death), I had a hard time working out what was going on. A lot of the difficulty is due to minimal character design (who's talking now?) and almost non existent backgrounds (are we in Japan or Taiwan, and whose flat is this scene taking place?).
August 8, 2011
Una buena adaptación en manga de la novel·la i la pel·lícula homónima.
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