I liked the art (except the planet tongue... that was... dumb) and overall premise, but the ending fell flat for me. The characters that survived till the end were all happy despite being condemned to a year of boredom in what amounts to a floating coffin. I would have liked some kind of sign that at least one character had looked past their survival bliss to realize just how screwed humanity really was instead of the contemplative sorrow of Remina losing her loved ones.
Japanese horror is basically that. You unknowingly do some slight against a god/demon/ghost and get a week of foreshadowing before getting your spine ripped through your anus. And that's assuming you aren't just fucked randomly because you happened to be born to the wrong family or just be in the vicinity.
And Uzumaki was a serial, so it was also "hey let's see the fucked up things happening this week in Spiral Town," with each chapter needing to have a little payoff of its own.
That one got a very lacklustre 'sequel' like a year ago. iirc, some people manage to evade the balloons thus triggering them to float aimlessly, final reveal is that the survivors skin is becoming of a texture similar to a balloon's. Literally ends there, I remember the comments shitting on it and asking what was the point. In retrospect, that represented what happens when you make this inescapable horror that somehow leaves survivors so you have to comically try to rekindle whatever mystique it had.
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I hope @Cats knows that this book exists, so he can sue Junji Ito for so blatanly ripping him off.
Is there actual evidence for that? It was bad enough when he tried to argue the spiral curse was some evolving entity despite really needing to reach hard for it. It feels like he has SCP brainrot where everything needs to have DEEPLORE rather than just existing by itself.
The giant spiral eye radiating warmth upon its congregation of content worshipers made warped stone statues kind of lends itself to that idea.
Yes. Wendigoon's style is to take larger works and make them digestible sprinkled with some Chicken Fried Christianity and a hint of political dissent. The only difference from other similar video essayists being that he lets his videos get to ridiculous lengths if he really thinks the topic at hand is interesting.
That is a very good way to put it, and is the reason why I personally liked Wendigoon in the first place. His videos have an easy-going air surrounding them, they aren't highly edited and flashy, and they lack a cold formality that a lot of other video essayists and horror content creators so needlessly cling to, to make themselves seem important than they really are. On top of that, Wendigoon himself is a charismatic guy. Maybe he's done some shit recently that I find retarded, but even then he still comes off as a likeable person who relays information in a simple, but entertaining way. I would take passion over production when it comes to YouTube videos any day.
His theory didn't make much sense to me either, but as I thought about it more, I realize it's actually really clever if that's what Junji Ito intended.
