Reviews tagging 'Death'

Remina by Junji Ito

35 reviews

wispy_reviews's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Stalking, Body horror, Child abuse, and Death

el_wheel's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

It was okay. Seemed to drag in the middle and there's no real explanation for things which is usual for Ito, but here it just worked less

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, and Violence

dave_ex_machina's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Not 100% nihilistic but close, very gross, like a twisted lovecraftian horror... Lots of cosmic licking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual violence

Yikes, this one is a lot, there are a bunch of triggers that aren't even mentioned on this list, don't read unless you know what you are getting into

nickel_books's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A

4.0

Not long after the world rejoices a new scientific discovery, a planet jettisoned through a wormhole, it becomes clear that the world is ending.  Can such a threat be eliminated by proxy - Remina the girl for Remina the planet? A gorgeously illustrated sci-fi horror story, Remina shows many human follies -pride, vanity, entitlement, idolatry, hive mind - and their most horrifying consequences.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

glecharles's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Great art, bonkers story; like a disaster movie on acid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Death of parent, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

jacob_dion's review

dark tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Abandonment, Classism, Death, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Grief

wayfaring_witch's review

dark fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Death, and Violence

mrsdarko's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Emotional abuse

caden_brown10's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Torture

urezia's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

I’d definitely add this one to Ito’s “cosmical” genre of his work. Focused on the universe, including galaxies, planets, and the end of the world/humanity. Using those characteristics he develops the story of the main character that has to go through these unstoppable situations. Using those descriptions I’d compare it to Sensor (also a work of Ito’s) for containing the same characteristics in the story. If you’ve read Sensor before, I hope that my review gives you an idea of how Remina looks like. Definitely not for me, but I’ll acknowledge that it’s because of my taste and not the quality of the work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Stalking