rainydays's manga / #horror(22)

kanae starts to have disturbing dreams about killing her coworker and crush natsuko, to the point where she doesnt know which reality is the truth. honestly very cool, i like the setup of kanae dreaming, and the reader is supposed to guess which part is actually the dream (the murder reality or the happier reality). interestingly done!

mare is a witch who weeds out the evil, disgusting and predatory people at her school whilst protecting her roommate. first of all: did not like all of the underage & adult sex scenes, made me super uncomfy. i feel like this plot couldve been really cool but the structure was off and worldbuilding was extremely vague, i had no idea who tf that man at the end was, and what exactly happened to mare??

louann connects with the mistress of her workplace after finding out that shes a cannibal murderer pretty good premise, though i wish there was more present-day storytelling to balance out the backstory-heavy narrative this had. loved the art, though, and the character dynamic between the two was unique.

megumi has feelings for her classmate ukyou, and finds out that ukyou has been killing her bullies. cmon, thats it??? i understand why megumi did what she did but it couldve been amazing at the end with them both pursuing her feelings, but this just made me sad!

ngl i have no idea whats going on art was so cool with the 3d perspective but the scat really threw me off, wtf did I just read??

a girl who undergoes multiple abortions to outdo her nemesis i really cant tell how the author came up with something like this... it went from extremely disturbing, to oddly entertaining to just numb acceptance at the end.

izaemon mutilates his wife iwa to earn social points. would have liked this more as a work of horror if the ending had been different. its an interesting take on yotsuya kaidan, extremely graphic and hard to get through, but disappointment really settled in when iwas ghost just decides to continue to serve izaemon instead of making his life a living hell.

short story anthologies centering around an unsettled mimi these were an interesting set of stories, my favorites were the seashore and just the two of us. do wish there was more lore in each of the stories but the sense of vagueness and mystery was still effective.

a man takes his wife on vacation to restart their lives after their sons death, though his meaning of 'restart' turns out to be very literal. there is discourse over who is at fault, i'd say both husband and wife were quite awful in their own ways. gotta give props to the artist for making everything so detailed yet grotesque, the story was really creepy and though the ending was weird, it still felt in character.

this was kind of an odd read... gruesome for sure but i didnt like the gl in the context of transforming the poor woman into that vampire man's plaything.