Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection - Vol. 12 Ch. 7 - In The Soil

[MangaDex]

 

[Meduchi]

Short and simple but still powerful. Predictable ending but it doesn't matter much since the execution works just fine. Maybe could had done the "weird girl" a more interesting character.

A nice volume. Honestly I don't think none of the stories is great, but they all manage to hold a certain level of desirable quality, so it's a good read. The Bully is probably the best.
Good: The Bully, Memory, The Back Alley, In the Soil
Okay: A deserter in the House, Heart of a Father, Love as scripted

 

[LegionGuy49]

Holy...

 

[PedroSimao002]

The whole time, I was like "here it comes, here it comes, there's gonna be something awful inside it..."

 

[Vainfire]

This might be my favorite volume out of all of Junji Ito. It really puts a human face to the horror that goes on, to the point that you get stories where the protagonist is actually the horrorterror (Memory, The Bully, Love is Scripted, etc.) and where the horrorterror gets to have a bit of honest human pathos (all the previously mentioned stories, A Deserter In the House, Heart of a Father). It does occasionally get a bit too close to the traditional ghost story/western slasher, especially with Love is Scripted, but putting these stories into uniquely Japanese contexts helps avoid the rot.