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祖母の葬式で帰省した過疎化が進むその村で、主人公とその親族が巻き込まれる「怪異」。それはこれから始まる「生き残りゲーム」の序章に過ぎなかった――。「ひぐらしのなく頃に」「うみねこのなく頃に」の竜騎士07が紡ぐ新たな世界を、新世代シリアスホラーの旗手・小池ノクトがリアルタッチで描き出す、日本の寒村を舞台にした「～頃に」シリーズ最新作！
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128 pages, Paperback
First published September 12, 2016
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January 13, 2025
Bleak, surreal and unsettling-feeling scary rather than jump-scares or clearly-understandable scares, reminiscent of Stephen King's 'The Mist' (only more surreal) crossed with 'Hell's Paradise' (only with less action and character depth).
A family gathers back in their remote old hometown for grandma's funeral, stewing in the tensions between the different siblings & teen/twentysomething cousins, and in the morning find that grandma's body has disappeared, as have the other villagers, and the village is surrounded by a fog that won't let them escape. Then more uncanny things start happening, like a swarm of weird bugs and the food going bad. And finally a lone stranger appears and tells them a terrible truth (?).
I don't enjoy horror focused on surreal bleakness, so maybe this just isn't for me. But the stranger and their revelation didn't make sense: where did they come from? They're a bit too convenient. And if the brothers grew up in this village, how is the 'revelation' a surprise to them? It's not something that would be easy to hide from kids for over a decade!
I ended up getting impatient with the bleak wallowing and skimming through the last quarter, and through the second volume in case there was something to hook me into the story (there wasn't). I won't bother finishing this series.
Content concerns: low-key family dysfunction; flashes of female nudity; attacks by animals, and related violence & bloody injuries; attempted monster-r@p3 (in vol.2)
A family gathers back in their remote old hometown for grandma's funeral, stewing in the tensions between the different siblings & teen/twentysomething cousins, and in the morning find that grandma's body has disappeared, as have the other villagers, and the village is surrounded by a fog that won't let them escape. Then more uncanny things start happening, like a swarm of weird bugs and the food going bad. And finally a lone stranger appears and tells them a terrible truth (?).
I don't enjoy horror focused on surreal bleakness, so maybe this just isn't for me. But the stranger and their revelation didn't make sense: where did they come from? They're a bit too convenient. And if the brothers grew up in this village, how is the 'revelation' a surprise to them? It's not something that would be easy to hide from kids for over a decade!
I ended up getting impatient with the bleak wallowing and skimming through the last quarter, and through the second volume in case there was something to hook me into the story (there wasn't). I won't bother finishing this series.
Content concerns: low-key family dysfunction; flashes of female nudity; attacks by animals, and related violence & bloody injuries; attempted monster-r@p3 (in vol.2)
August 10, 2020
The suspense is real!
August 22, 2020
Es más un 2.5 que un 3 en realidad.
Básicamente en el primer volumen una familia va al funeral de su abuela y en la noche comienzan a suceder cosas malas y todo el mundo tiene miedo.
Básicamente en el primer volumen una familia va al funeral de su abuela y en la noche comienzan a suceder cosas malas y todo el mundo tiene miedo.
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