Erotic Horror

This is a really hard manga to talk about, mostly because it’s all one shots and also because it’s done by many different artists and manga-ka. Instead of going through every single one of them, I guess I should talk about them slightly as a whole for most of this. The stories were pretty well done for small horror stories you could probably sit around the camp fire with but they would probably not of held up around other stories of a similar nature. They were pretty much generic, something sort of supernatural happens, the main character falls into that little trap, and then atthe end, it is resolved in sometimes the most bloody of ways. For all of them, I could pretty much tell how the ending was going to be but it was still a little interesting to read it in how it played out. Two of them did stand out a bit though. Transient Future, while not my favorite story in the grouping, had a very interesting concept of the time loop, using the grandfather theory I guess to support what was going on. It stood out only for that particular aspect. The other was Hotaru is Waiting which was a really cute little story with a sad happy ending. It was the only one of the group that didn’t make the horror aspect not so horror. It was a good little break in between the other vengeance heavy stories. One of the biggest questions I had while reading this was why it was called ‘Erotic’ Horror when there was very little that could be seen as erotic. Two chapters had sexual content but unless you’re getting off on other people dying, that was pretty much it. Even the characters were not all that amazing as they mostly were all pretty much normal high school and middle school students. Sure there was one that had collage kids but again, pretty generic looking characters. The artwork is very well done for all of them, some a little more detailed then others but like I said before, this was done by 5 different people. Strangely though, the characters all really look the same design which made me wonder if the artists all lived together or even worked together before. I guess that is good for most manga, but this didn’t even have stories that were fluid together so it just made me a bit confused. Most everything had a very dark look to it much to add to the horror except for ‘Hotaru is Waiting’ which was set in the daytime instead of night. Although that one was different, the mood that was set was very different in general. I still believe that it is an ok read, even if the stories were pretty bland. ‘Hotaru is Waiting’ was worth the read but the others felt very similar to what I have read before in horror stories. It’s worth a look at but your not hurting if you skip it.