Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Il Mostro - Frankenstein e Altre Storie by Junji Ito

9 reviews

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

doomluz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Love this adaptation of Frankenstein. It’s pretty spot on with the original except for a bit towards the end.

This features the Bride of Frankenstein and I love Junji Ito’s take on her.

The art also adds weight to the gruesomeness of the task of creating the monster.
The stories centered on Oshikiri were interesting, though I wanted to know more about how similar the main Oshikiri was to the one from the other dimension.
The other 2 stories creepy, but the ones at the end about his mom's dog were cute and a funny way to end this anthology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Body horror, Gore, Death, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

grayreadsmanga's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Animal death, Medical content, Child death, Death of parent, and Suicide

louisegraveyard's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death

sirenricobooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

bookwomble's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Child death, and Body horror

bronz_dan's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Loved the art style and the quick pacing of all of the stories, horror is better in small doses, usually.

I especially like how the Oshikiri stories are connected but not, all at the same time. I don't like his incel vibes in the earlier versions though

The dog story is great as well.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment

novelyon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Medical trauma and Murder

Minor: Animal death

lilybear3's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

The first half is the story of Frankenstein and the rest is a collection of stories.  Art is a 10/10 as always, he is a master at horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Fire/Fire injury