The Enigma Of Amigara Fault (2002) - Plot & Excerpts
Read this. Read this when you're alone. Read this when it's midnight.Read this when you have the lights off and there's nothing but the sound of you breathing.I read this during daytime, lights full blast, and this shit creeped me the fuck out. Describing it to others creeped them out. I can only imagine reading it in the perfect atmosphere (alone, in the middle of the night, in darkness and silence) would create awesome, terrifying nightmares. I had very mixed emotions about what to rate this story. I'll just say 4 stars for now, but I still thought this was great. I wish it could have been a little longer, just to build up the tension a bit more. Everyone is saying how this has haunted them long after reading it. Maybe it's because I don't get scared too easily, or the fact that I've read Uzumaki before this, but I wasn't 'horrified'.The chilling factor is strong, and combine a story like this with Junji Ito, we've got one heck of a story. I'm fairly impressed with Junji's creativity with horror stories, but for this one specifically the whole "recognizing your hole" seemed a little unrealistic to me. I've love this author's works, mainly because it almost spoke out saying "anything is possible". The kind of idea that under crazy circumstances something like this could possibly happen is probably the most creepy fact overall. But with this extremely short volume, having the holes "call" to their rightful personnel was interesting, but odd. Most people recognize the shape of their bodies from the width and torso size. You can't exactly display those defining characteristics with a hole, and I can assure you that if you see an outline of yourself it would be fairly difficult to justify whether that is "your's" or not. For example, it's like drawing an outline of your shoes on a piece of paper. You're most likely going to look at it and be like: "Is my shoe size really THAT big?" Or "Is my shoe size really THAT small?" The human eye looks for definition and dimensions. Trust me, it would be difficult to know the perfect matching outline and which hole would be yours. Also, many of those people who visited the Fault site were only relying on the split second image on the T.V. of the hole they only THOUGHT were theirs. The thing is, is that if you knew you were going to die if you went into the hole and didn't want to, WHY would you go into it? I guess that those facts just added to the horror part of it that they would be so psychologically manipulated into almost DESIRING to go into the hole, but still.Very chilling story, but I think I would have liked it much more if it was extended a little bit and if the two main character's relationship was more thoroughly developed. Then their deaths would have been much more devastating.
What do You think about The Enigma Of Amigara Fault (2002)?
THAT WAS FUCKED UP SO WHY AM I LAUGHING OMG but still, i'm going to have nightmares of this ok
—francis
