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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
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
Aside from everything about this book that pissed me off, it was fine.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Transphobia
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
fuck ryuji and asukawa fr but if you really think about it, couldn’t they (asukawa, his wife, and baby) take turns rewatching the tape once a week to restart their death timers without involving any more of the public? like sure who knows how long that could’ve lasted if it causes them to go mental (poor baby 😭) but like imagine if they did that instead tho…
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Me sorprendió que fuera una serie. También fue más entretenido de lo que esperaba, aunque creí que me daría tanto miedo como la película en su tiempo. No fue así.
The goal of reading this was to add to a property I already loved but, as it turns out, almost everything it added, I was happy not knowing about in the first place. The only bit I liked was the more firm connection between the videotape and a virus, but that's present enough otherwise to not be that big a get. Ryuji was hard to care about given what we knew about him and I normally would care about that character so much but it was like the author went out of his way to be like: no, absolutely not. So, okay, you win, I don't. Asakawa was so unpleasant with and detached from his family and he didn't seem to care about them much so I was honestly surprised by his decision at the end, the only way that makes sense is if he just thinks of them as an extension of himself and then I can see it.
All the best parts of this were definitely mined already, imo, and everything left should've been.
All the best parts of this were definitely mined already, imo, and everything left should've been.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
ugh, shoulda DNF'd it tbh.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia
Moderate: Suicide, Vomit
Minor: Alcohol
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Suicide
Minor: Vomit, Death of parent
interesting but not anything great. the horror/mystery aspects were enjoyable, but multiple main characters being shameless rapists and transphobes was not. first published in japanese in 1991, i can understand that some of the social aspects aren't approached from a modern angle, but it's repulsive to read about multiple rapes in a book about a haunted tape where the sexual assaults don't have anything to do with it, and even if they did, sexual assault as a plot device is tired at this point anyways. maybe one of these days i'll watch the movie in the hopes that it's better than the book