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apechild 's review for:
Gyo, Vol. 2
by Junji Ito
2010 bookcrossing journal:
Ok, so I just read this anyway. I don't know whether I'd ever get hold of a copy of the first part, which seems to be out of print, and I couldn't really wait. I managed to follow the plot even though it's part two. It's not overly complicated and just generally very strange. There's some wierd disease, starting in fish, that gave them legs and they walked out of the sea. This disease has now gone across to humans. The fish die, the legs remain, and when a human is infected, the legs kind of catch them on top as a power source. There's a lot of gas around basically. Delightful. And this lad's girlfriend has turned into one of these bloated gas bags with a tube up her bum and two in her mouth, and he's running after her trying to save her or something. And that's really it. It's a kind of bleak end of the world scenario.
At the end there's also a couple of random short stories. I really liked the last one which was about this massive belt of rock with people-shaped holes in, being thrown up out of the ground after an earthquake.
Ok, so I just read this anyway. I don't know whether I'd ever get hold of a copy of the first part, which seems to be out of print, and I couldn't really wait. I managed to follow the plot even though it's part two. It's not overly complicated and just generally very strange. There's some wierd disease, starting in fish, that gave them legs and they walked out of the sea. This disease has now gone across to humans. The fish die, the legs remain, and when a human is infected, the legs kind of catch them on top as a power source. There's a lot of gas around basically. Delightful. And this lad's girlfriend has turned into one of these bloated gas bags with a tube up her bum and two in her mouth, and he's running after her trying to save her or something. And that's really it. It's a kind of bleak end of the world scenario.
At the end there's also a couple of random short stories. I really liked the last one which was about this massive belt of rock with people-shaped holes in, being thrown up out of the ground after an earthquake.