Jukai - Ch. 10 - Record Ten: Virtual Reality

[MangaDex]

 

[Skullkrusher]

The Backrooms have reached Japan, I see.

 

[NebulaBoy26]

LOL THE FRIGGIN BACKROOMS

Can’t wait for the final story of “The Monster in the Maximum-Security Temple”, whenever that drops

Thanks for the TL!

 

[NeverAnother]

Cultural interpretation is welcome and signs of an overlapping understanding. I for one am happy to see this take on the backrooms.

 

[OWMWO]

He fail to reach exit 8...

 

[SMAXZO]

Forget your virtual reality, that guy's facing virtual insanity!
There's nothing so bad as a man-made man, is there?

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

bideo gaem.

 

[crimeone]

never expect to see the backrooms

 

[Trin4life]

This is somehow Kojima's fault

 

[Hitspark]

Feels like the weakest one so far but it was still pretty fun, overall.

 

[fight2live]

you don't get hungry or sleepy? you know what, sign me up

 

[tammylikesart]

For what we experience culturally now, I think this one becomes weak quickly because the idea is so prevalent. The simple fact that something resembling the backrooms exits isn't really scary anymore. It's so spread around that we became overfamiliar.

At this point, you need either a genuinely good story set within that kind of space, or something with strong physical presence - like convincing movie sets, practical effects, atmosphere - to make that concept feel disturbing again. Just revealing "you felt out of reality and now you are in the creepy out-of-bounds area" doesn't work with same weight itself anymore.

The whole freezing, corrupted speech and pixelated face is much more interesting, but then the backrooms basically brought the story down.