#junji ito's mimi's ghost stories

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Mimi's Ghost Stories ("The Seashore") // Junji Ito

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THE HALLOWEEN GODS HAVE BLESSED ME TIME FOR A VAMPIRE WEEKEND, BABEY

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Recurring themes in 2023: Horror and Gore

My knowledge and experience with horror still remains shallow, but I had some chilling encounters with I dare say some essential reads in the manga genre that got to me. Of those are: PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki Mimi's Tales of Terror by Hirokatsu Kihara & Ichiro Nakayama adapted by Junji Ito Cold Apartment by Akane Saiga

I was encouraged to check out Masaaki Nakayama's work many years ago and the licensing of PTSD Radio gave me a great reason to finally get started. Not only is the horror truly unnerving, deploying great sequences and a wide range of spirits, I was also blown away by the balancing of multiple timelines, locations, and overarching story thread playing out in the unfortunately unfinished series. What got me most though was in the final volume when he in detail describes and artistically depicts his affliction with a sudden and extremely rare blood disease that put him out of commission for some time. Then a series of truly eerie and unnerving hauntings that had affected himself and several acquaintances. A series not to be missed by lovers of ghost and spirits based horror. Maybe more action-packed and body horror than a typical horror I was so happy to finally have read the famous for decades work that is Parasyte. I found myself absorbed into the well planned story and the questions it asked itself. Its status among Japanese readers as a gateway work is not one I will challenge.

Junji Ito is beyond cliche at this point but Mimi's Tales of Horror reminded me that I like him a lot as someone who does adaptions or his own spin on other people's ideas so I found this with its mix of comedic and intense encounters with the supernatural to be my favorite Ito release of the year. While these reads were all great, it still felt like part of the cultural catch up I was doing as they are quite famous in their genre, but there was one fluke find I was surprised I couldn't find much info in english. Cold Apartment by Akane Saiga. Literally handed to me as I was browsing in a store, I was intrigued by the art style on the cover and didn't find myself disappointed by the contents of this one-shot compilation. A landlord must feed his giant carnivorous cat, a stalker becomes the stalked, two children stumble upon a slashers hideout, those are just the stories easy for me to quickly summarize. With some gorey panels that made me wince, depictions of intense emotions that rocked me, and an artistic expression reminiscent on the type of original horror content you could mistakenly stumble upon on the 2000's internet. This read will be impossible for me to forget any time soon

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lets all think about the nextdoor neighbor story from mimis ghost stories by junji ito

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“The Sound of Grass,” from “Mimi no Kaidan (Mimi’s Ghost Stories).” 

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junji ito series : mimi ghost story

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Mimi's Ghost Stories ("Just the Two of Us") // Junji Ito

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Mimi's Ghost Stories (ミミの怪談), by Junji Ito (伊藤 潤二)

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Mimi’s ghost story: The Woman Next Door

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favorite horror movies/novels/games (not including: Pact by John Charles "Wildbow" McCrae)? 🔍

asking me this question is a great way to make me forget literally every thing i have ever seen with my eyeballs ever however i like junji ito (especially some of the shorter stories...fond of the slow-moving zombie one fond of the mimi's ghost stories one with the unnervingly tall folding woman) and fuan no tane. fuan no tane i especially am endeared to because it feels like it hits on exactly the same things some of junji ito's shit (like mimis ghost stories) does. & it's very much a "what if there really was some Thing behind your shower curtain when you go to the bathroom at night/wgat if there was. a monster following you home/what if when you turn the lights off shit DID start chasing you up the stairs" type of deal where it's appealing to sort of childhood kid-in-the-dark fears and i love that type of thing. this isn't really a Recommendation per se but i also love old creepypastas urban legends and other early internet online horror including and at times especially if it's kind of badly done