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May 17, 2017
Preliminary (26/72 chp)
A series of short vignettes reminiscent of urban legends, which is not a bad idea on its face. Usually a horror story contains a pattern of rising tension -> scare -> more rising tension with no drop-off -> bigger scare until you hit the conclusion. In a short vignette you may only have one scare, but you usually trail off into an implication of a grisly conclusion to leave the audience with something to take away from that scene.

This manga's problem is that it abruptly ends its stories right at that point when the tension ramps into the scare, without letting the whole scare play out. "A man was walking down the street and when he looked down, *his shadow didn't look normal*" is not a spooky urban legend without telling us what the abnormal shadow implies about his ultimate fate. That's the part that's missing from this series, the part that leaves you with just enough information to be able to imagine what happens next. Each story cuts off right *before* the moment where that happens.

It seems like each story was just a single spooky visual the artist had in mind; it may as well have just been an artbook of those moments. The attempt to put a story behind them just seems like wasted effort here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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