School Zone

This is the very best Goosebumps you'll ever read. I don't mean it for the weaknesses those books had (pointless cliffhangers, meandering, template characters, lack of goals) this has none of them. But it's clearly taking very childish fears and twisting them into the horrors kids see in them. It might take a minute to distance yourself from how absurd some ideas are, and some might die in the translations (the very concept of school myths is very japanese), not so much if you're used to japanese horror but even if not you'll get in the mood really fast. The art is outstanding, as expected ofKanako Inuki, like a more cartoony Junji Ito. It dances in the line between being too cute in its depiction of fear and straight up gore. I'm surprised this hasn't been mined for reaction faces and unlicensed shirts. The one thing I have to warn about, and it's a bit of a spoiler so be warned and stuff, is that there is no absolute ending to this manga. It sort of closes its concept for the plot but it's 3 volumes of a non existant 10 volume series more or less, it's really noticeable and it might leave a bad taste.