Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Gyo by Junji Ito

14 reviews

westernsunshine's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Body horror, and Suicide attempt

ravenpuff's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicide

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Animal death

Minor: War and Gaslighting

maxor76's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? N/A

3.25

So Gyo itself is pretty silly and not really scary. I'd hate to be in that situation don't get me wrong, but it won't keep me up at night. 
It kinda lost me towards the end as well, it ends so abruptly and without resolution.

The enigma of amigara fault is brilliant however, I love that story so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Animal death, and Suicide

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