Book Review: Tombs by Junji Ito

Tombs by Junji Ito
My rating: 9

Pages 344

Year  2023

This is probably one of the best anthologies Junji Ito grace us with so far.

We've got 9 tales.

The first one , is the title of the novel and deals with two siblings as they experience a traffic accident leaving dead a young girl. As they arrive to a town where they were meeting another friend. But so far, what's strange? well everywhere in the city there are tombs appearing and our duo will soon learn why and their own fate. It's a eerie tale filled with mystery. 10/10

The Second tale is about ghosts and time travelling (kind of). It's probably one of my least favourite tales but it's good nevertheless. 7/10

The third one is spooky as shit as Master Ito have grace us. It's about a young girl who is having problem talking and we learn that their house yard has a lot of snails. So, of course she is growing a snail instead of her tongue. Horrible! The art is amazing and the end almost comically scary. 10/10

Next tale is about a young man who has a weird neighbour and every night she comes out and scares the shit out of him. It's good, I've already knew from an anime. Probably the only tale with an happy ending if you can call it that. 7/10

Washed Ashore is something only Ito could have create. Imagine a strange fish/whale monster being dead on the sand, now imagine that it attracts a lot of people, all with the same dreams. Now imagine... nah not going to spoil but the monster is something really interesting and the ending quite good 9/10

The Strange Tale of the Tunnel is probably one of the best so far. We've got this weird tunnel where our main protagonist mother has killed herself. The daughter is being drawn and the boy must try to find her out. Afterwards his father also disappeared and he is trying to find out what is happening. Why people disappear? Why the photos being taken there have blurs and other stuff. There is even a scientific explanation , which I found out very interesting and means Junji is very knowledge in not that known scientific stuff. 10/10 Really enjoy this

Bronze Statue is a good tale, unexpected. I Thought the tale was going one way and by the end the author throws us a curve ball that I Bet the vast majority would not think of. 9/10

Floaters is a tale about strange stuff that is leaving people's bodies, like those white stuff that are released by some flowers here in Portugal. But they have the people inner thoughts. It was a very interesting tale (not that scary) but very cool. 9/10

The last tale is about a hidden town and the strange case of epidemic with the loss of blood of the inhabitants. Very cool story and nice ending. 9/10

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