New Read - The Liminal Zone
The Liminal Zone is a collection of four short manga tales from the master of body horror and horror manga, Junji Ito. I picked it up from the library not that long ago and this marks my first manga read for 2025.
The four stories are Weeping Woman Way, Madonna, The Spirit Flow of Aokigahara, and Slumber. Each are wild and filled with the types of creepy scenes you'd expect out of a Junji Ito manga.
My favorite of the stories had to be Weeping Woman Way. In this one, a couple passes through a town and sees a woman supposedly hired to weep during a funeral. After passing by, the girl in the relationship cannot stop crying. They return back to that community to try to find out what caused her to cry so uncontrollably. It's filled with such wild body horror and weeping that it's hard to look away.
Each story is self contained and disconnected from the previous ones, which gives you an easy stop point between stories if you needed a break from the horror.
If you are a fan of horror manga, of course I recommend this collection. I am trying to be purposely vague about the stories, as they are worth experiencing. However, a warning there is violence, references to suicide, and verbal / physical abuse in this collection. So, be warned and be careful if that type of content is an issue for you.
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aunque casi siempre son calaveras y manos.
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