Ito Junji's Gyo is a work that builds on the themes, art style and narrative structure of past works. Fans of Uzumaki, Tomie, and other past mangas will feel right at home with Gyo. That said, Gyo does not measure up to the best of Ito's work, or even the best of the genre.
Gyo starts off strong with a very solid premise, and a very interesting meta-narrative, however it fails to deliver as most of the characters and much of the plot manages to annoy more than frighten or startle.
I would recommend Gyo to fans of Ito's other work, as it remains fairly popular, but
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: The Sad Tale of the Principal Post, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, Daikokubashira Hiwa, Ashura no Dansou no Kai Japanese: ギョ うごめく不気味 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 21
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 12, 2001 to Apr 15, 2002
Theme:
Psychological
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
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Itou, Junji (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #60212 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #205
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May 15, 2022
Gyo- a work that has not yet reached the peak of Itto. If I compare Gyo with a series about Tomie or Uzumaki, I don't find it attractive enough. I had high expectations when I started reading chapter 1, and as the story progressed, everything still met that expectation, it was quite logical and weird and it made me curious about the ending. I thought it had to be a perfect twist like Uzumaki or something, but near the end the story was surprisingly boring, like the author didn't know how to end it. I just don't like stories that have too fast or too
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Jul 9, 2023
The story of Gyo starts off really strong with something absurd as fish having legs invading the town of Okinawa. With most of Junji Ito's work is more of how his able to create suspense and how bizarre the situations could be.
However for Gyo it wasn't the case , the horror aspect did felt surreal and somewhat disgusting which served it's purpose. However the plot felt very predictable in a way that you sort of would have known what's coming next with how he set up the story to it's climax. For this story we have only 4 characters and all I want to say ... 
Jan 24, 2024
Just like Uzumaki, I feel that Gyo started out very well, perfectly conveying that feeling of strangeness, but little by little it was lost.
I don't know if it's us, the readers, who simply get used to the absurdity of ideas, but what I noticed is that Ito presents us with something we've never seen before and then makes it so absurd that we're not actually scared or uncomfortable, but yes, just admiring how quickly it escalated. Which for me takes a lot of the tension out of the scenes. In fact, that might be why I preferred the beginning of his manga. I even had fun ... 
Jun 12, 2020
It lost me as it drug on, caught my attention again with the circus arc, and then lost me again at the end. A lot of really cool body horror, but the overall story and ending definitely lacked.
I am a hoe for anything circus related, and despite it not doing much for the plot it intrigued me nonetheless. There are many things I could pick apart about this manga but I'm trying to enjoy it based on the art alone, which is really sick. I find, so far at least, that is my problem with ito as a mangaka. He tends to have really cool art ... 
Sep 8, 2020
So in Mr Ito's next manga ,we see machine legged fish attacking humans , a circus that looks to be extreme Tim Burtonish and humans then dragged to the machines the fish were attached in the first place, with also them being monsters.
Now I gotta say, the ending man was a literal near tearjerker even if you didn't like this certain character in the first place. Since I'm gonna make this review spoiler free, you can go read it yourself to what happened. This manga really wasn't that extreme as Uzamaki like it reminds me of the Facebook stickers that includes Business Fish. Well ... 
Apr 24, 2021
Junji Ito's phenomenal highly-detailed artwork of sickening and disturbing imagery is once again at play here in Gyo. However, this story feels more like an homage to campy B-movies than his typical fare, and fails to really deliver enough scares. Scenes are often more ridiculously goofy than scary, and it's only really in the final act where the chills briefly start. Even then, nothing about Gyo is "traditionally scary," and more relies on Ito's body horror tropes than past stories that couple this body horror with psychological themes & twisted characters. The story is often hard to follow and the characters are highly unlikeable (especially
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Jan 27, 2023
Yes, junji ito is weird and genius at the same time ,this is my 2nd junji ito manga that i have read ,the first was uzumaki which i really enjoyed ,and now gyo , i went in because i wanted to read more of junji ito's work and it was a meh for me , dont get me wrong this Wasn't a bad manga but it Wasn't good it was an ok manga ,i really enjoyed the first 7 chapters and got really into it , but after it ,it went into chaos and that's only because junji ito wanted to make some sense out
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