Horror Anthology Comic: Blindside - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - The Bookworm (Amagappa Shoujogun)

[MangaDex]

 

[peachyv]

...hm. yeah. rather than the previous stories, this one is p scary.

 

[SteelField]

The ending is scary

To see such cute character design at the start to be gutted and peeled alive?

Damn, still i'm not expecting this ( °~°)

 

[tanzinaahmed1]

Woah, that's... terrifying. Went from 0 to 484737 in about 2 pages. Jesus. :O

 

[StoogieStan]

So sad

 

[Vainfire]

two major tropes in Japanese horror are here: don't disturb the monsters (see Fuan no Tane for great examples of this, seriously just endless), and don't push back on custom. Here, the mother tries to set up her daughter with a nice man in a solid marriage, and because she rebels she gets karmically punished.

 

[eldachii]

well that escalated quickly

 

[Voyvoy_]

hot take: the other ones were better :/

 

[Voyvoy_]

when you first read it, it's bad, but when you reread it it's even worse!

 

[Voyvoy_]

THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORDS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO EXPLAIN HOW FUCKING AWFUL THIS ONE IS.

 

[jade.jupiter1996]

two major tropes in Japanese horror are here: don't disturb the monsters (see Fuan no Tane for great examples of this, seriously just endless), and don't push back on custom. Here, the mother tries to set up her daughter with a nice man in a solid marriage, and because she rebels she gets karmically punished.

the second one would be dictated by the japanese society itself. A society that gives so little freedom to its young generation, that's why the manga and anime turn out to be so colorful and full of freedom in the first place, to let out the suffocating air of oppression.

 

[Vainfire]

THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORDS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO EXPLAIN HOW FUCKING AWFUL THIS ONE IS.

Deeply empathizing with your hatred of this particular story lmao, there are some horror stories out there with questionable takeaways but you rarely see something so disproportionate between its crime and punishment. It's almost like the 2007 flick Funny Games, grinning at the audience and daring them to cry foul.

 

[Voyvoy_]

Deeply empathizing with your hatred of this particular story lmao, there are some horror stories out there with questionable takeaways but you rarely see something so disproportionate between its crime and punishment. It's almost like the 2007 flick Funny Games, grinning at the audience and daring them to cry foul.

Amagappa gets a lot of praise in his horror for what I find very basic, it's like a more jumpscare oriented, mainstream and amateurish version of Takahashi Yousuke's short stories.