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77
6
Finished
1986 to 1989
6.5/10
Average Review Score
50%
Recommend It
2
Reviews Worldwide
If you're a fan of horror, this is a must read. I'm not going to try to spoil the experience or anything of that sort, but this manga made me truly afraid and had my heart racing every second. Some storys were unique, the art was decent, the characters were ok and my enjoyment was at it's maximum, I was constantly wondering what would happen next. A must read for the horror fanatics.
Hear me out. I like Kazuo Umezu and his fever dream manga. I like horror, especially comedy horror and am even ok with gore in manga. Horror can be engaging spookily or it can be funny. But this, this was neither, instead it was disgusting and bland. I personally, big surprise, do not like reading manga about CHILDREN getting tortured and/or killed in grotesque ways (such as Corpse Party). For the first, however many chapters went by, it is absolutely disgusting. The plots of the stories were not anything remarkable to speak of either. They were sporadic and random (which can help with other stories suchas crazy Fourteen), seemingly just serving as a medium for gore. I am not the most reliable resource to speak on the plot of the later stories because after ~4 stories my mind began checking out from how negatively I was viewing it. Non-spoiler example because it is at the very beginning of a story, one major issue of being sporadic was when 4 children randomly chose to murder their teacher just to see what her face looked like when she died... tremendous lack of logic. The art? I like his art-style, I usually do not care about the art. Potential questions: Why do you like drifting classroom then? Because there is a solid plotline and it is more of a survival scenario (akin to Lord of the Flies) rather than gore. Why do you like Midori then if that is about a child? Yeah, that's different. They do not show children having literally worse than Alien 1979 shooting stuff out of their chest. Also Midori is a tragedy with a more logical plot-line and "I like circus freak-shows", whereas this is just gorey fever-dream.
The 6 books contains 5 horror stories related to a primary school kid named Sou. Sou has an ability to foresee supernatural events in his dream and even make changes that would eventually happen in the reality. The 5 stories are the Eroded Scissors, the Disappeared Rubber, the Tongue of the Spider Queen, the Black Picture-book and Shadow Dead. All of the scary stories are linked by his unique experience. (Source: MU)