However I didn’t find it to be as entrancing and amazing as Uzumaki. Overall I liked this book, it was well done. I actually enjoyed the two bonus stories “The Sad Tale of the Principal Post” and “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” a bit more than the main story. I would recommend to older teens just because there is some nudity, some of the scenes later in the book are pretty gross, and there is strong language in here as well.

The story is more just gross and a bit disturbing than actually scary. The illustration is amazingly detailed and easy to follow. We are left pretty much in the middle of the story with no real idea about how exactly this horror came to be and what will happen to the people of this world now.

This book also didn’t have as much closure as Uzumaki did. Rather than dealing with supernatural themes of madness it deals with strange legged fish that come out of the sea and start attacking people. I didn’t think Gyo was quite as intellectually interesting as Uzumaki. That being said it was still a very well done and very well drawn manga. Gyo is quite a bit shorter and I wasn’t as impressed with the story as I was with Uzumaki. When I finished reading Uzumaki by Ito-san I immediately went out and bought the other two deluxe editions by him. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of Uzumaki, Junji Ito. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene… So begins Tadashi and Kaori’s spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. “Something is rotten in Okinawa… The floating smell of death hangs over the island.

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