Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Gyo: Kıpırdanan Dehşet by Junji Ito

11 reviews

icephoenix44's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Never would I ever expected fricking weaponized farts to be genuinely scary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

abbyjme's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

4.0

My thalassophobia and chronic fear of smelling bad was NOT prepared for this one…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, and Gore

iheartm4m's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, Animal death, Blood, and Death

grey_jayne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.5

Gyo is pure nightmare fuel. The imagery is intense and aggressively unrelenting. I don't know if I like the narrative as much as the visuals, but that doesn't even matter when things are this consistently horrific.

There are two unrelated stories at the end of the book and they're great, especially The Enigma of Amigara Fault, which really played with my claustrophobia. This book is terrifying!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Animal death, Suicide, and Confinement

jacob_dion's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicide

urezia's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Terminal illness, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, Animal death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

lemonade_lover's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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

4.5

Nauseating love it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Body horror, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide attempt, Violence, Self harm, Terminal illness, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

thegayestghost's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Suicide, Death, Violence, Body horror, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Gore, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

readingsofaslinky's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Another insanist story from Junji Ito that had me laughing out loud at the beginning because of how bizarre it was. The toxic (no pun intended) relationship was a good vehicle for this wild plot. 

CW: for suicide/suicide attempt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicide

bibyabs's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Gore, and Murder