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Not because it’s particularly grotesque or heinously scary, but because you’re compelled to re-read it for how weird it is. This is one of those that left me stunned silent, staring at the page for a few minutes after I had finished it. I’m already having trouble going to sleep just thinking about it.īEST “WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K WAS THAT STORY” STORY: “The Woman Next Door” Still, worse than that is the concept that haunts many of us: being trapped in your own mind for an eternity. Mukoda turns into is unsettling, to say the least, captured vividly through Ito’s shading and uncomfortable closeups. This quick read, paired with artwork that reeks of pure decay as the victim of this peculiar affliction begins to decay faster. Dreams that get exponentially longer with each passing night quickly become the stuff of nightmares. Still, I’ll take what I can get when we see endings like the one in…īEST “MY PERSONAL HELL” STORY: “The Long Dream”Īrguably the most horrifying of Junji Ito’s work, this story depicts one of those “fates worse than death” that many stories claim, but few can back up. This story also boasts one of the most hopeful Junji Ito endings, which is miraculous since it’s only about a sliver of a chance of surviving fish hell. When sea creatures begin coming ashore on spider-like, robotic frames, we end up with some of the best monster designs in any horror manga to date.
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No spoiler’s here since the manga never actually tries to conceal the monster: it’s fish.
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One of Ito’s serialized works, Gyo, is a short series that brings a whole new meaning to the word submechanophobia.