Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Gyo: Kıpırdanan Dehşet by Junji Ito

42 reviews

perth_is's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Medical content, Violence, War, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Suicide

zuckerpass's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

andy78's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Read the story on the internet a few years ago and thought it was mediocre - mainly because of the open ending. Now, after reading every other Junji Ito books and making peace with his style of storytelling, I appreciate Gyo for what it is good at: transporting you into a disgusting fever dream of body horror. I still have problems with how Ito writes such annoying characters and tropes (e.g., women depicted as always being the first to go crazy/contradictory and throw tantrums). I fully hope Junji Ito is out there enjoying healthy and fulfilling relationships, because couples/spouses in his stories will make you think "Why the hell are they not broken up and hating each other already?" That said, with Gyo's female protagonist, we have some sprinkles of backstory (her upbringing) and exposition (let's be honest, I'd probably act like her as well if I smell the stench of rotting corpses all the time) to justify for her actions. All in all, excellent art. One of Ito's Big Three for a reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Blood, Suicide, and Body horror

plyn's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Death, and Animal cruelty

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

clovetra's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

1.0

what the hell 🔥
ok but seriously this is probably my least favourite junji ito story im sorry
i was not scared or creeped out at all, and i read it in a pitch black room at 12:30am.
um idk this felt like it was missing the thing that makes a junji ito story a junji ito story.
like idk i didn't even like the premise. or the plot. or any characters. complete apathy.
the only thing that gave me a feeling of unease was

kaori's suicide

but other than that.... i was not spooked. and that's one page
like tell me why the bonus stories scared me more? like the enigma of amigara faults actually made me scared more than the entire gyo story. junji ito my love you flopped here <3
im kidding junji ito can never flop but this so far is my least favourite work from him </3
i found nothing redeemable about this story im sorry
also who moved first one star of 2024

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, and Suicide

Moderate: War

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

zakcebulski's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

So, fucking what the shit?

This story was crazy crazy. 
Germs infect fish and then the fish come on to shore and start to infect other animals and then people?
Jesus Christ Ito did an amazing job with this story and the art therein, but it is absolutely fucking insane. 
I get the feeling that the theme of this book is the raping of nature via humans and the gradual approach toward humans becoming the commodity for sale of other humans. 
As well, I wonder if there is a sexual angle to read this book through as the way in which people are attached to the machines is in an overtly and very intrusive way comparable to rape or sexual assault?

I did think that Kaori was a very one note character that ultimately became a stand in for a object to drive the story forward. 
Overall, this story was easily the most stomach churning of all of Ito's works that I have read to this point. His illustrations were horrifically on point, as they always are. 
I felt that there were a few loose ends that were not tied up or resolved in this story which is why I am dropping the rating down a little bit. 

We are lucky to live in a time where Junji Ito makes manga. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Medical trauma, and Body horror

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