Fuan no Tane+

(Check my profile for a link to my personal site containing more up-to-date reviews and bonus media!) Written June 17, 2018 12:00 am EST --- Exactly what it says on the tin. Like Seeds of Anxiety? You will like this. Perhaps not as much though, such as in my case. Seeds of Anxiety always had a lofty concept, but it seemed unlikely the author could carry it being the original series’ run. This superfluous sequel basically confirmed that, being derivative of story structures in the first series without evolving the material in any way. If anything, the initial goal to explore irrational fears and fantasies has waned this timearound. The preludes to each section make less sense than before in their attempts to tie certain stories together thematically (though most in this series were unreadable because they were lazily left untranslated). The biggest change here is the infrequent attempts at longer stories. Typically, these still only last two or three additional chapters and don’t offer definitive conclusions like usual, but the sentiment is still nice to see. Your curiosity regarding certain tales is occasionally taken a little further. Anyway, this is fine horror reading. Less bite all around than the first series: increasingly repetitive, weaker creature designs, and a decreasing lack of relevance to the core concept of Seeds of Anxiety. But despite all of that, Seeds of Anxiety+ has enough creepy moments for J-horror fans.

I was hoping it would at least get better than the absolute garbage that was the prior iteration. I mean the bar is on the floor, how could it not? Unfortunately this is more of exactly the same stuff. This mangaka hasn't improved let alone changed anything. It's entirely redundant garbage of almost the exact same nonstory repeated 100+ more times. So once again, another 100+ repetitive, painfully boring few page non-stories of: +90% scene setting irrelevant filler panels introducing non-characters. Then, What if a ghost? OooOoh. The end. Repeat. The art is low effort garbage (especially the dumb ghost faces) that is just silly if anythingat all and almost never scary. The chapter titles of each grouping of stories is still arbitrary nothings with no relevance to the randomly ordered stories. The mangaka has tried doing a few more recurring characters (of redundantly repetitive stories that go nowhere), but rather than just having each one's stories in one chapter as a longform story, each is deliberately not grouped together so as to be as pointlessly disjointed as possible (dragging it out to minimize anyone's ability to care about the noncharacters' nonstories). This is either a cashgrab shitpost of a mangaka who still couldn't be assed to put in any effort or, even scarier, the possibility that this mangaka is actually doing the best they can with this garbage (given that the mangaka here admits to being a coward who can't handle horror, it may just be that this horror for babies is the most he can bear). It is genuinely scary how poorly made this manga is and how much people shill/glaze the series. 1/10 (where 5/10 is average)