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Sans emploi ni occupation, le jeune Yukito mène une vie de reclus… À la suite du décès de sa grand-mère, il se rend à Hirasaka, le village natal de son père. Accompagné de sa demi-sœur Yue et de son père Masashi, il retrouve ses oncles et cousins pour la veillée funèbre. Mais le corps de sa grand-mère disparaît dans la nuit. Au réveil de la famille, le village n’est plus tout à fait le même… Le cauchemar ne fait que commencer !

224 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)
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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.
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