This was an amazing manga for me to read, it was very unsettling, my favorite part of it was the mountain humans. I really liked how this was something that was explained to give the person an unreasonable need to enter their hole, though I don’t like when the MC to the story went into his hole, he knew what would happen, he even had a dream for gods sake!! I understand that they portrayed the holes to seem enticing to the ‘owner’, but it seemed that he was very emotionally strong, so it didn’t make much sense to have him enter the hole. I was ok with the main story because the art was amazing, and the details were great, but I hated how Junji Ito portrayed the girlfriend. I have also heard that he makes his work more unsettling by making it somewhat realistic, but the main story was anything but.
~ Overall, I enjoyed it thoroughly, I’m not the biggest fan of Junji Ito’s work, so I can’t really be concerned with it all, but the best way I can describe my feelings is just amused but also bored, it makes me have a hole in my stomach, not the one you feel when you’re scared or weirder out, but a suffocatingly boring sort of feeling. It wasn’t refreshing and didn’t really make me feel the horror that was supposed to happen (since his work is horror), it just felt like weircore. Either way, thanks for the hard work and I hope to see good horror from Junji Ito (I love his art style).
Gyo