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Lullabies From Hell
Welcome to one of the most disturbing minds of Japanese manga! Hideshi Hino has long been considered a master of the horror manga genre since his coming out in the late '70s. And the four stories in Lullabies From Hell will show you how demented the man can be. The self-titled first tome introduces you to the author himself, a horror quasi-biography of sorts. The second story tells of Hino's having willed his pregnant wife into birthing a horrible, planet-devastating reptile baby that eats puppies and children! And you can imagine how the stories progress from there.
232 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2004
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Hideshi Hino
72 books188 followersHideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote and directed two of the Guinea Pig horror movies which were based on his manga: Flower of Flesh and Blood, which he also starred in, and Mermaid in a Manhole.
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April 7, 2021
3.5 Stars
This was a really enjoyable collection of horror manga short stories by an iconic Japanese author. The black and white illustrations managed to be the perfect balance between creepy and cute. My favourite story in the collection was the faux memoir and I also really liked the lizard baby story. Very different than Junji Ito's style, but an author I would certainly recommend to readers looking for more horror manga.
This was a really enjoyable collection of horror manga short stories by an iconic Japanese author. The black and white illustrations managed to be the perfect balance between creepy and cute. My favourite story in the collection was the faux memoir and I also really liked the lizard baby story. Very different than Junji Ito's style, but an author I would certainly recommend to readers looking for more horror manga.
December 8, 2023
Truly this looks like "one of the most disturbing minds of japanese manga"!!!
A well crafted volume of four horror stories that have different levels of appeal and craftsmanship, but the talent is there, present in all of them.
Interesting new (old) author discovery for me!
A well crafted volume of four horror stories that have different levels of appeal and craftsmanship, but the talent is there, present in all of them.
Interesting new (old) author discovery for me!
December 5, 2021
2.5/5
Esta colección consta de cuatro relatos:
A Lullaby From Hell: Varios pasajes me recordaron a Panorama Infernal del mismo autor, pero sin llegar a gustarme tanto como esta última.
Unusual Fetus - My Baby: Sin duda tiene una premisa interesante. ¿Y si nuestro bebé naciera como una criatura distinta de la raza humana?
Train Of Terror: Mi favorita por lo frenética de la persecución.
Zoroku's Strange Disease: Siendo objetivos la más profunda e interesante de las cuatro historias, pero le falto algo para realmente gustarme.
No es mi colección de relatos favorita del autor, pero tampoco está mal.
Esta colección consta de cuatro relatos:
A Lullaby From Hell: Varios pasajes me recordaron a Panorama Infernal del mismo autor, pero sin llegar a gustarme tanto como esta última.
Unusual Fetus - My Baby: Sin duda tiene una premisa interesante. ¿Y si nuestro bebé naciera como una criatura distinta de la raza humana?
Train Of Terror: Mi favorita por lo frenética de la persecución.
Zoroku's Strange Disease: Siendo objetivos la más profunda e interesante de las cuatro historias, pero le falto algo para realmente gustarme.
No es mi colección de relatos favorita del autor, pero tampoco está mal.
January 10, 2020
Eerie, creepy, unsettling and beautifully crafted.
March 26, 2017
Rate: 3.5 stars
Hideshi Hino was a big disappointment to me. I had really high expectations (him being a"master of horror manga" and all...) but his stories usually would just leave me with a "I don't know" feeling. Yes they are creepy and gory and oh I lost the count on how many times I've cringed at the torture and murder scenes, but the problem is that most of the stories have this weird (and kind of stupid) plot in which they are based on. Then, after a fastidious start of the story, the drama suddenly develops way too fast and, in a blink of an eye, when you were finally getting into the plot and starting to think that "perhaps you will end up enjoying this" the story just reaches the end and you're left wondering "what should I think about this?"... It seems that Hideshi Hino wants you to understand the point of view of the main character and his reasons to act this or that way and whether his fate was or not well deserved, but these short horror stories don't give me enough time for that and thus that bitter feeling in the end. "The Horror Mansion" series by Ochazuke Nori are a great example on what a short horror story should be, short and scary, and that's it. Then you have for example the "Corpse Party" series, where the combined work of Kedouin Makoto and Toshimi Shinomiya delivers you a very scary (and very gory!) story with enough length for you to understand the background of the characters, including the villain, such that in the end you can understand why that person acts like that and decide for yourself whether the ending was or not satisfying (anyways it's a horror story, so depending on the point of view the ending may never be satisfying enough?).
Despite all this, Hideshi Hino's works all seem to have this particular characteristic that I found really interesting though. All of his stories that I read exude this crazy-like feeling - the characters are plain lunatic or go through some really crazy and twisted events, and Hideshi Hino transmits this atmosphere brilliantly with his drawings.
Now, regarding "Lullabies from Hell", I have to say that this book gave me a real hard time when rating it, and it still leaves me a bitter taste in my mouth because I just don't know what to do. "Skin and Bones" was a great book, I was actually very impressed with Hideshi Hino's stories from that volume, and I ended up giving it 4 stars. As for "Hell Baby", it started in a very weird way but I felt that in the end it redeemed itself and, since it wasn't that bad after all, I gave it 3.5 stars. Now "Lullabies from Hell" is a collection of short horror stories, like "Skin and Bones" but unlike the latter, its stories were a bit stupid, with some characters taking some really stupid decisions sometimes or the plot being just weird, and so I can't give it a 4 stars rating. However, "Hell Baby"'s plot was way stupid than any of the stories from "Lullabies from Hell" to begin with (and I found the present book way more enjoyable to read), and I gave it a rating of 3.5 stars, so it also doesn't feel right to give this book only 3.5 stars... Despite all that, "Skin and Bones" has definitely some of the best stories Hideshi Hino has written, which was why I've decided to just give "Lullabies from Hell" 3.5 stars.
trad.: Hideshi Hino foi uma grande desilusão para mim. Tinha grandes expectativas (sendo ele um “mestre do manga de terror” e tudo…) mas as suas histórias apenas me deixavam geralmente com uma sensação do tipo “não sei…”. Sim as histórias são arrepiantes e sangrentas e oh perdi a conta à quantidade de vezes que me arrepiei nas cenas de tortura e assassínio, mas o problema é que a maioria das histórias têm um enredo estranho (e algo estúpido). Depois, após um fastidioso início da história, o drama desenrola-se demasiado depressa e, num piscar de olhos, quando estou a finalmente entrar na história e a pensar que “talvez até venha a gostar disto” a história já acabou e fica-se com a sensação “o que é que eu devo pensar disto?”… Parece que o Hideshi Hino quer que compreendamos o ponto de vista do personagem principal e as razões que o levam a agir desta ou daquela maneira para que fiquemos a pensar se o seu destino era ou não merecido, mas este conceito de pequenas histórias de terror não dão tempo suficiente para isso e daí aquela sensação amarga no final. A série “The Horror Mansion” de Ochazuke Nori é um grande exemplo do que pequenas histórias de terror devem ser, pequenas e assustadoras, e pronto. Depois há por exemplo “Corpse Party”, em que o trabalho combinado de Kedouin Makoto e Toshimi Shinomiya nos traz uma história bem assustadora (e bem sangrenta!) mas longa o suficiente para que possamos compreender a história dos personagens, incluindo o vilão, tanto que no final podemos até perceber porque é que a pessoa age assim e temos uma opinião sobre se o final foi ou não satisfatório (de qualquer das formas é uma história de terror, portanto dependendo do ponto de vista o final pode até nem nunca ser satisfatório o suficiente?).
Apesar de tudo, o trabalho do Hideshi Hino tem uma particularidade que eu achei até muito interessante. Todas as suas histórias têm uma aura como que de loucura a rodeá-las – os personagens são completos lunáticos ou passam por situações bem loucas e retorcidas, e o Hideshi Hino consegue transmitir essa atmosfera de forma brilhante através do desenho.
Relativamente a “Lullabies from Hell”, tenho que dizer que este livro deu-me uma grande dor de cabeça na hora de atribuir uma classificação, e ainda me deixa com uma sensação desagradável porque não sei bem o que fazer. "Skin and Bones" foi um livro muito bom, impressionou-me bastante pela positiva, tanto que acabei por lhe atribuir 4 estrelas no final. Já "Hell Baby" começa de uma forma mesmo muito estranha mas senti que no final até que se conseguiu redimir e então atribuí-lhe 3.5 estrelas. Agora "Lullabies from Hell" é uma colectânea de pequenas histórias de terror, tal como "Skin and Bones", mas ao contrário deste último as suas histórias são algo estúpidas, com personagens que tomam decisões bem idiotas em certas ocasiões ou simplesmente porque o enredo é apenas muito estranho, o que me leva a que não consiga atribuir 4 estrelas ao livro. Contudo, o enredo de "Hell Baby" foi mesmo dos piores para mim, mais do que qualquer história em "Lullabies from Hell" (na verdade até gostei de ler “Lullabies from Hell”), e eu atribuí-lhe 3.5 estrelas, portanto também não me parece bem dar a este livro apenas 3.5 estrelas... No entanto, apesar de tudo "Skin and Bones" tem definitivamente das melhores histórias que já li de Hideshi Hino, o que me levou a decidir dar a este livro 3.5 estrelas.
Hideshi Hino was a big disappointment to me. I had really high expectations (him being a"master of horror manga" and all...) but his stories usually would just leave me with a "I don't know" feeling. Yes they are creepy and gory and oh I lost the count on how many times I've cringed at the torture and murder scenes, but the problem is that most of the stories have this weird (and kind of stupid) plot in which they are based on. Then, after a fastidious start of the story, the drama suddenly develops way too fast and, in a blink of an eye, when you were finally getting into the plot and starting to think that "perhaps you will end up enjoying this" the story just reaches the end and you're left wondering "what should I think about this?"... It seems that Hideshi Hino wants you to understand the point of view of the main character and his reasons to act this or that way and whether his fate was or not well deserved, but these short horror stories don't give me enough time for that and thus that bitter feeling in the end. "The Horror Mansion" series by Ochazuke Nori are a great example on what a short horror story should be, short and scary, and that's it. Then you have for example the "Corpse Party" series, where the combined work of Kedouin Makoto and Toshimi Shinomiya delivers you a very scary (and very gory!) story with enough length for you to understand the background of the characters, including the villain, such that in the end you can understand why that person acts like that and decide for yourself whether the ending was or not satisfying (anyways it's a horror story, so depending on the point of view the ending may never be satisfying enough?).
Despite all this, Hideshi Hino's works all seem to have this particular characteristic that I found really interesting though. All of his stories that I read exude this crazy-like feeling - the characters are plain lunatic or go through some really crazy and twisted events, and Hideshi Hino transmits this atmosphere brilliantly with his drawings.
Now, regarding "Lullabies from Hell", I have to say that this book gave me a real hard time when rating it, and it still leaves me a bitter taste in my mouth because I just don't know what to do. "Skin and Bones" was a great book, I was actually very impressed with Hideshi Hino's stories from that volume, and I ended up giving it 4 stars. As for "Hell Baby", it started in a very weird way but I felt that in the end it redeemed itself and, since it wasn't that bad after all, I gave it 3.5 stars. Now "Lullabies from Hell" is a collection of short horror stories, like "Skin and Bones" but unlike the latter, its stories were a bit stupid, with some characters taking some really stupid decisions sometimes or the plot being just weird, and so I can't give it a 4 stars rating. However, "Hell Baby"'s plot was way stupid than any of the stories from "Lullabies from Hell" to begin with (and I found the present book way more enjoyable to read), and I gave it a rating of 3.5 stars, so it also doesn't feel right to give this book only 3.5 stars... Despite all that, "Skin and Bones" has definitely some of the best stories Hideshi Hino has written, which was why I've decided to just give "Lullabies from Hell" 3.5 stars.
trad.: Hideshi Hino foi uma grande desilusão para mim. Tinha grandes expectativas (sendo ele um “mestre do manga de terror” e tudo…) mas as suas histórias apenas me deixavam geralmente com uma sensação do tipo “não sei…”. Sim as histórias são arrepiantes e sangrentas e oh perdi a conta à quantidade de vezes que me arrepiei nas cenas de tortura e assassínio, mas o problema é que a maioria das histórias têm um enredo estranho (e algo estúpido). Depois, após um fastidioso início da história, o drama desenrola-se demasiado depressa e, num piscar de olhos, quando estou a finalmente entrar na história e a pensar que “talvez até venha a gostar disto” a história já acabou e fica-se com a sensação “o que é que eu devo pensar disto?”… Parece que o Hideshi Hino quer que compreendamos o ponto de vista do personagem principal e as razões que o levam a agir desta ou daquela maneira para que fiquemos a pensar se o seu destino era ou não merecido, mas este conceito de pequenas histórias de terror não dão tempo suficiente para isso e daí aquela sensação amarga no final. A série “The Horror Mansion” de Ochazuke Nori é um grande exemplo do que pequenas histórias de terror devem ser, pequenas e assustadoras, e pronto. Depois há por exemplo “Corpse Party”, em que o trabalho combinado de Kedouin Makoto e Toshimi Shinomiya nos traz uma história bem assustadora (e bem sangrenta!) mas longa o suficiente para que possamos compreender a história dos personagens, incluindo o vilão, tanto que no final podemos até perceber porque é que a pessoa age assim e temos uma opinião sobre se o final foi ou não satisfatório (de qualquer das formas é uma história de terror, portanto dependendo do ponto de vista o final pode até nem nunca ser satisfatório o suficiente?).
Apesar de tudo, o trabalho do Hideshi Hino tem uma particularidade que eu achei até muito interessante. Todas as suas histórias têm uma aura como que de loucura a rodeá-las – os personagens são completos lunáticos ou passam por situações bem loucas e retorcidas, e o Hideshi Hino consegue transmitir essa atmosfera de forma brilhante através do desenho.
Relativamente a “Lullabies from Hell”, tenho que dizer que este livro deu-me uma grande dor de cabeça na hora de atribuir uma classificação, e ainda me deixa com uma sensação desagradável porque não sei bem o que fazer. "Skin and Bones" foi um livro muito bom, impressionou-me bastante pela positiva, tanto que acabei por lhe atribuir 4 estrelas no final. Já "Hell Baby" começa de uma forma mesmo muito estranha mas senti que no final até que se conseguiu redimir e então atribuí-lhe 3.5 estrelas. Agora "Lullabies from Hell" é uma colectânea de pequenas histórias de terror, tal como "Skin and Bones", mas ao contrário deste último as suas histórias são algo estúpidas, com personagens que tomam decisões bem idiotas em certas ocasiões ou simplesmente porque o enredo é apenas muito estranho, o que me leva a que não consiga atribuir 4 estrelas ao livro. Contudo, o enredo de "Hell Baby" foi mesmo dos piores para mim, mais do que qualquer história em "Lullabies from Hell" (na verdade até gostei de ler “Lullabies from Hell”), e eu atribuí-lhe 3.5 estrelas, portanto também não me parece bem dar a este livro apenas 3.5 estrelas... No entanto, apesar de tudo "Skin and Bones" tem definitivamente das melhores histórias que já li de Hideshi Hino, o que me levou a decidir dar a este livro 3.5 estrelas.
October 2, 2012
More icky fun from the most visceral of all manga artists.
A child raised by demented parents goes from torturing animals and self mutilation to murdering his enemies by depicting their deaths in his drawings. (Hino's protagonists are often artists.) A woman gives birth to a lizard in a story that could all be a fantasy devised by her manga artist husband. This story has an environmental message that never quite rises to the sophistication of Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. In the third story, three children visit the countryside alone. They travel by train and return to find their world has become a nightmare complete with abandoned amusement parks and homicidal parents.
The final story, "Zoruko's Strange Disease," has that combination of physical repulsiveness and eerie grace that makes HIno more than just a master of gross-out horror. A socially outcast child, loved only by his mother, develops a degenerative disease that reduces hims to a pustule-infected monstrosity. Abandoned in a house deep in the forest, he uses the blood and ichor of his boils to paint strangely beautiful pictures. When the villagers decide to kill him before the spring thaw causes his putrid odor to once again fill the village, they discover a mystery that is simultaneously melancholy and lovely.
A child raised by demented parents goes from torturing animals and self mutilation to murdering his enemies by depicting their deaths in his drawings. (Hino's protagonists are often artists.) A woman gives birth to a lizard in a story that could all be a fantasy devised by her manga artist husband. This story has an environmental message that never quite rises to the sophistication of Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. In the third story, three children visit the countryside alone. They travel by train and return to find their world has become a nightmare complete with abandoned amusement parks and homicidal parents.
The final story, "Zoruko's Strange Disease," has that combination of physical repulsiveness and eerie grace that makes HIno more than just a master of gross-out horror. A socially outcast child, loved only by his mother, develops a degenerative disease that reduces hims to a pustule-infected monstrosity. Abandoned in a house deep in the forest, he uses the blood and ichor of his boils to paint strangely beautiful pictures. When the villagers decide to kill him before the spring thaw causes his putrid odor to once again fill the village, they discover a mystery that is simultaneously melancholy and lovely.
June 17, 2021
Hideshi Hino exhibits his fascinations and limitations in this twisted collection of horror stories. The art is fabulous, cute and endearing while utterly grotesque - presenting horrific imagery as an aesthetic enterprise and as more artistic than sadistic.
The gore links to the Guinea Pig films, we have a fascination with eye stuff and a final story about overwhelming boils that are lanced for fluids - to make art with - and that produced maggots. This will repeat in Mermaid in the Manhole. Also, the meta tale of the first story, it is just a horror artist wanting to draw horrible things. He wants to draw horrible things being done to people - and then that stuff seems to happen to people. It is about violent art as escapist but also about consequence, and about indulging these sides of us. It makes my reading of Mermaid in the Manhole, as a reflection on the earlier Guinea Pig films, seem more grounded.
Alas, a lot of this just boils down to: what's a horrible thing I could imagine? The stories progress little past just putting nasty things on paper - though these nasty things are compelling - and some of the stories get lost in themselves when they push for narrative. They also have some weird implications that betrays a lack of wider thought. It is just cool dark stuff, and it is cool and dark, it is just little more.
The gore links to the Guinea Pig films, we have a fascination with eye stuff and a final story about overwhelming boils that are lanced for fluids - to make art with - and that produced maggots. This will repeat in Mermaid in the Manhole. Also, the meta tale of the first story, it is just a horror artist wanting to draw horrible things. He wants to draw horrible things being done to people - and then that stuff seems to happen to people. It is about violent art as escapist but also about consequence, and about indulging these sides of us. It makes my reading of Mermaid in the Manhole, as a reflection on the earlier Guinea Pig films, seem more grounded.
Alas, a lot of this just boils down to: what's a horrible thing I could imagine? The stories progress little past just putting nasty things on paper - though these nasty things are compelling - and some of the stories get lost in themselves when they push for narrative. They also have some weird implications that betrays a lack of wider thought. It is just cool dark stuff, and it is cool and dark, it is just little more.
January 7, 2016
The first two stories I thought was brilliant. Dark and a bit twisted, exactly what i was expecting from "one of the most disturbing minds of japanese manga". If the book had only contained these two I would have given it 5 stars.
The third story was... bad accually in comparison to the first two. It was also awkward to read(this may have a bit to do with transelation). Fourth story i found a bit gross. This was to be expected really. And it's just my opinion.
The third story was... bad accually in comparison to the first two. It was also awkward to read(this may have a bit to do with transelation). Fourth story i found a bit gross. This was to be expected really. And it's just my opinion.
May 16, 2015
This was my first manga and I really liked it. The first story was the scariest out of all, but I still liked all of them.
September 22, 2022
Lullabies From Hell is a short story collection made up of 4 tales.
A Lullaby From Hell 4 / 5. This seems to be kind of a spoof on how people might see him as he is known for very disturbing manga and gore. I think this a good tale to show his very black humor and satire. I really like the idea of him just laughing as he draws himself as the embodiment of evil. A really fun tale with creepy art and a lot of gore.
Unusual Fetus -- My Baby 4 / 5. This one was… To say it best it's just really fucking weird. The story is about Hino’s wife giving birth to a blood thirsty reptile. It has some commentary on humans against the environment but I really like that it doesn't say outright why this is happening. This one is lighter on gore but really weird and fun anyways.
Train of Terror 2 / 5. While I enjoy the concept, this story is just way too messy, it jumps way too much and the events are the same for about 40 pages. He runs from his parents, they catch up, he runs again, repeat. It's not a pleasure to dislike a work but this one is just kind of a headache to read. Also most panels just look way too similar to other works so it just feels like a bad mix of some of his works.
Zoroku’s Strange Disease 3 / 5. While I kinda enjoyed this one, it's just way too similar to other works of Hino. I don't know why but this is my third book by him and I already feel like his stories are too similar of a good for nothing human turning into something else. It's an okay end to the collection but still a little sad over how unoriginal it feels as it feels like a worse copy of his other works.
A Lullaby From Hell 4 / 5. This seems to be kind of a spoof on how people might see him as he is known for very disturbing manga and gore. I think this a good tale to show his very black humor and satire. I really like the idea of him just laughing as he draws himself as the embodiment of evil. A really fun tale with creepy art and a lot of gore.
Unusual Fetus -- My Baby 4 / 5. This one was… To say it best it's just really fucking weird. The story is about Hino’s wife giving birth to a blood thirsty reptile. It has some commentary on humans against the environment but I really like that it doesn't say outright why this is happening. This one is lighter on gore but really weird and fun anyways.
Train of Terror 2 / 5. While I enjoy the concept, this story is just way too messy, it jumps way too much and the events are the same for about 40 pages. He runs from his parents, they catch up, he runs again, repeat. It's not a pleasure to dislike a work but this one is just kind of a headache to read. Also most panels just look way too similar to other works so it just feels like a bad mix of some of his works.
Zoroku’s Strange Disease 3 / 5. While I kinda enjoyed this one, it's just way too similar to other works of Hino. I don't know why but this is my third book by him and I already feel like his stories are too similar of a good for nothing human turning into something else. It's an okay end to the collection but still a little sad over how unoriginal it feels as it feels like a worse copy of his other works.
November 30, 2024
Hideshi Hino's horror comes from pure gore and a complete lack of hope. It is not about making you disgusted like in Shintaro Kago, or impressed with dreadful obsessions like in Junji Ito. It is more hellish. It is the kind of story that penetrates the heart if it's already being consumed by strange, blood-thirst thoughts. Just like his child character reading Edogawa Rampo and others in "Jigoku no Komoriuta" (we can see that the author includes his own name between the books on the shelf).
On a personal note, it gave me goosebumps when the mother finds the boy's treasures hidden in the closet - and the family has it disposed of in the river. At 13, my mother confiscated the Hideshi Hino's volumes from my shelf, and I was punished for having a taste for the weird (luckily, she kept them instead of throwing them away and I could get them back when older).
On a personal note, it gave me goosebumps when the mother finds the boy's treasures hidden in the closet - and the family has it disposed of in the river. At 13, my mother confiscated the Hideshi Hino's volumes from my shelf, and I was punished for having a taste for the weird (luckily, she kept them instead of throwing them away and I could get them back when older).
July 5, 2017
Hideshi Hino is a mangaka whose work has never really worked as well for me as I would like it to, but I keep returning to the well because there is undeniably something powerful in his combination of grotesque, gross, gruesome, grim subject matter and his incredibly cartoony style. This volume worked better for me than much of what I've read, and from some later reading, I think I enjoy him more when he's working in the short form (to the surprise of no one familiar with my reading patterns).
"Train of Terror," in particular, had a pretty unforgettable panel in which the young protagonist explores a waxwork and Hideshi Hino draws classic movie monsters, including Lon Chaney in London After Midnight and the titular monster from Hammer's The Reptile.
"Train of Terror," in particular, had a pretty unforgettable panel in which the young protagonist explores a waxwork and Hideshi Hino draws classic movie monsters, including Lon Chaney in London After Midnight and the titular monster from Hammer's The Reptile.
May 26, 2018
3.5 stars
Equal parts gruesome and gross, Lullabies from Hell contains 4 four short horror stories of varying quality. I'm not usually a fan of guro, in fact it more often that not makes me sick, but Hino's more cartoony classic manga style makes the contents more tolerable. I'm not sure if I'd call Hino the "master of horror"-I much prefer Junji Ito, and even he's hit and miss-but I did find this charming, in a grotesque sort of way. Enough to make me want to take a look at some of his other work, at least.
Equal parts gruesome and gross, Lullabies from Hell contains 4 four short horror stories of varying quality. I'm not usually a fan of guro, in fact it more often that not makes me sick, but Hino's more cartoony classic manga style makes the contents more tolerable. I'm not sure if I'd call Hino the "master of horror"-I much prefer Junji Ito, and even he's hit and miss-but I did find this charming, in a grotesque sort of way. Enough to make me want to take a look at some of his other work, at least.
October 17, 2023
Pretty sure I said the same thing for the last Hino book I read, but I don't know if there is any other horror creator that I could truly say is "deranged" or "demented" other than him. They're both words that get thrown around a lot in horror circles, but it's not just a cliche with this guy. I can't imagine ever being in a headspace where I could anticipate how his stories develop. Every one of them is from an alien mind, it's awesome.
November 16, 2023
quite a mixed bag from the H man. the first story is basically "panorama of hell" but not as good. the second story (about the reptile baby) I found boring and stupid. the third story seems like hino's trying his hand at a kazuo umezz type of story and drawing style. it doesn't work for him. then the final story, zoruko's strange disease, is a... total masterpiece. just a beautiful, poetic tale that really reminded me of why I love Hino, despite the first three stories kind of sucking.
November 20, 2017
If memory serves this was like all about parent/child/monster murder and dead/evil/lizard monster babies? IDK. it was a little sloppy, which makes it too funny to really be effectively horror comic-y. JUNJI ITO FOREVER. Sorry, brah.
January 16, 2022
Tunnel of Terror is the longest story in this collection and probably the weakest I've read from Hideshi Hino so far but otherwise this is gross, uncomfortable, horrific fun! The last story is both disgusting and melancholy, a balance this mangaka pulls off often and does well.
July 13, 2022
This is easily one of my favorite mangas! Dark and disturbing in a fun way. I like the art style a lot. I read this after watching Flower of Flesh and Blood because I wanted to see what Hino's mangas were like and I was not disappointed.
June 4, 2017
The stories are described as "gruesome" and that's exactly how they are.
August 21, 2024
hicbir sey junji ito gibi olamıcak biliorum ama yine de fena degildi
December 10, 2024
hino is clearly an obsessive on certain themes like a lot of great artists, he keeps coming back to similar scenes and imagery
May 26, 2025
Καταπληκτικό! Πρώτη φορά σε μορφή manga στα ελληνικά μου άρεσε αρκετά! Οχι το ίδιο δυνατές και οι 4 ιστορίες αλλά πολύ καλή προσπάθεια!
September 12, 2025
Four stories that are quite interesting, each one for different reasons. There are meta elements, social commentary and even satire, too.
October 8, 2010
Me bajé este manga por dos razones: la review que leí, y el dibujo.
Divertido y terrorífico, así lo defino. Si no le doy las 5 estrellas es porque una de las cuatro historias me pareció algo floja o previsible (Train of terror), pero las demás me entusiasmaron. Destaco la primera (A lullaby from hell) y la última (Zoroku's strange disease), que es mi favorita. Sin duda, leeré algo más de este autor en cuanto pueda.
Divertido y terrorífico, así lo defino. Si no le doy las 5 estrellas es porque una de las cuatro historias me pareció algo floja o previsible (Train of terror), pero las demás me entusiasmaron. Destaco la primera (A lullaby from hell) y la última (Zoroku's strange disease), que es mi favorita. Sin duda, leeré algo más de este autor en cuanto pueda.
June 26, 2025
Even though the art style was not my favourite, the stories were really freaky. Not entirely horror but they will certainly make you feel pretty uneasy...
It was a peculiar experience overall, which I liked, it was different!
It was a peculiar experience overall, which I liked, it was different!
July 12, 2010
The first story was definitely the most horrifying, sick and twisted. The others veered between silly and stupid.
January 5, 2013
Pretty great! A cross between Octopus Girl and Junji Ito!
October 3, 2013
Sick ._.
September 9, 2016
Historias realmente miedosas, el espacio en el que se desarrollan es triste, gris y deprimente, lo cual suma bastante para hacer de su lectura más agradable en términos de diseño. Grotesco ante todo.
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