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The Summer Hikaru Died (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022The best place to start if what grips you in Ito is the wrongness of something familiar. In rural Japan, Yoshiki realizes his best friend Hikaru has been replaced by an otherworldly entity, and he chooses to keep it close anyway. Mokumokuren builds dread out of still summer days and sudden…0 - 2
Parasyte (2011)Published Jan 1, 2011Body horror built on one small, brilliant mistake: the alien parasite meant to take over Shinichi's brain gets stopped and takes his right hand instead. What follows is a long argument between a boy and the cold, curious creature living in his arm, broken up by bodies that open into blades and…0 - 3
Mieruko-chan (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020A lighter, stranger turn. High schooler Miko can see ghosts, and they are horrible: stretched, many-eyed things drawn in loving, grotesque detail. Her only defense is to act as if she sees nothing, so the scares come from her frozen face while something leans in an inch from her ear.
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The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019An entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground, and the children inside find themselves stranded in a wasteland where the adults cannot be trusted. Kazuo Umezu's 1970s epic is shrill, frantic and cruel in a way modern horror rarely dares: hunger, disease, monsters and the kids…0 - 5
Cat-Eyed Boy: The Perfect Edition (2023)Published Jan 1, 2023More Kazuo Umezu, and the gentler way into his work. The title character is a boy who comes from the world of demons, lives among humans and is despised by both, and he drifts through these stand-alone tales sometimes as the lead and sometimes as a sideline witness to whatever horror the people…0 - 6
Mermaid Saga Collector’s Edition (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Rumiko Takahashi's dark side. Folklore says eating mermaid flesh can grant immortality, but far more often it kills you or turns you into a damned creature. Yuta has lived 500 years since he took that gamble, and these episodic stories follow him and Mana, a young woman about to be sacrificed when…0 - 7
PTSD Radio 2-in-1 (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022The closest thing here to Ito's short stories, and also the least like them. Masaaki Nakayama tells fragmentary, interlocking ghost stories, most only a few pages long, that refuse to explain themselves: a figure half-glimpsed in a doorway, a scene that simply stops. The fear builds through…0 - 8
Gannibal (2023)Published Jan 1, 2023Folk horror with a crime story's grip. Police officer Daigo transfers to a remote village, and a mysterious death there leads him toward rumors that the locals eat people. Masaaki Ninomiya keeps you unsure for a long stretch whether the threat is supernatural, human or simple paranoia, and the…0 - 9
Blood on the Tracks (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020No ghosts and no monsters, just a mother. Seiichi is a quiet middle schooler with an overprotective mother, and on a family hike he is the only witness to something unthinkable she does. Shuzo Oshimi then stays inside the boy's head, with long, nearly silent sequences and close-ups of his mother's…0 - 10
Dorohedoro (2010)Published Jan 1, 2010Grimy, funny and violent. Caiman is a man whose memories were erased and whose head was turned into a reptile's by a sorcerer's magic, and he roams the slum city of Hole looking for the one who did it. Q Hayashida's art is dense and filthy in the best way, packed with masks, smoke and gore, and the…0