There is just something so sinister about someone being that close, they can hear you breathe, they can hear you move. It does indeed help with the blockage, but it quickly becomes apparent that someone is living within the chair. A writer is having a serious case of writer’s block and her husband purchases her a luxurious writing chair. Its an experience that no-one would believe or indeed, would want to. My god this was so many levels of fucked up and perverted. A worried wife follows her husband and hears him uttering words to another woman, she vows to get to the bottom of it but is she really prepared for she finds in a locked box?Īnother story I absolutely loved was The Human Chair. A new marriage is supposed to be filled with joy and peace, but the husband keeps leaving the marital bed in the middle of the night. A story that features a new husband that seems disconnected with reality. Some of my favourite stories within Venus in the Blind Spot were, An unearthly love. Mental illness for many of these haunting stories become and inevitable conclusion. Violence has the capability of ruining the victims contained within. Each story has a catalyst, an implosion point that sets the tone for the remainder of the story. On first meet you think these people have the perfect lives, perfect families and perfect lifestyles but on the flip side the reader peels back the multiple layers of perfectville and are left with a stripped back corpse the rotten remains spilling out and infecting all those that come across them. Darkness has seeped into these stories and it’s a set of stories that aren’t likely to be forgotten in a hurry. There is tales of misadventure, Japanese lore, and the undercurrents of love and suffering constantly being the backbone of the collection.
The artwork and the storytelling is both horrific and awe inspiring. It isn’t something that I would have necessarily picked up but I received it in an Abominable Book Box.
Venus in the Blind Spot is my first ever Manga novel. This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito’s career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa’s classic horror story “Human Chair” and fan favorite “The Enigma of Amigara Fault.” With a deluxe presentation-including special color pages, and showcasing illustrations from his acclaimed long-form manga No Longer Human-each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror. Genres: Comics & Graphic Novels, Manga, General, Horror, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Literary, Science Fiction
Published by VIZ Media LLC on August 18, 2020
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