Gyo by Junji ItoMy rating: 7 of 10 stars
Pages : 393p
Year : 2002
Genre : Horror
Series : Solo
I rate this a 7 out of 10.
This is a novel , not a short story collection as Junji Ito is more famous. There is also an anime movie on it (never watch it, so far).
This novel follows a couple of characters as they are having vacations on the south of Japan and something weird starts to happened there. Fish and other sea creatures are coming out the sea. They are not totally violent (although the shark ones are) and they segregated a lot of Gas. What are they? They have all like an appendage underneath the monster torso with legs attached to it. In turn they are connected with the fish through some cables on the mouth and ... well ass and other orificies. The story progress as the monsters start invading other cities, going throughout Japan and the world.
The vast majority of the novel is set on Tokyo where a guy must save his girlfriend which is dead and linked to one of those machines.
There are some questions that one may ask, some have answers, per example, how and why these monsters appear (we know it's due to the gas) but it's never really stated what are they or came to be. Well to be fair, it's hinted the gas is something sentient and created by some mad Japanese war scientists. In this tale, as the previous Remina you know earth is doomed. So what's making our main character do anything? Well first of all is the dedication to give somekind of peace to his girlfriend which he feels morally connected.
The ending is quite strange, to be honest, okay we know that he is immune and he finds some people who are also immune. I question what has happened to his uncle & apprentice. We will never know since there is no truly an end there.
Not the best of Junji.
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