Scary Book by Kazuo Umezu, 231 pagesThis is a manga book recommended by the same person who gave me Stargazing Dog, so I was hoping for something that would awesomely follow in its footsteps. Sadly it did not live up to my hype.
Scary Book is comprised of two stories. The first is Reflections and comprises most of the book. The second is Vengeance Demon. In Reflections a girl falls in love with her reflection and does everything she can to make herself look beautiful. What she doesn't know is that the reflection she sees is really an evil spirit that is waiting to escape and take over her life. Vengeance Demon was a little more convoluted. There a prince is living with the kings master swordsman while his castle is under siege. The swordsman also has a son that he hopes will befriend the prince. Except the prince is cruel and abusive to the point where his son almost dies. But by saving his son the prince gets injured and the kings wrath is great.
These were not bad stories per se but they were not what I was expecting. For starters I could not find anything that was particularly scary about Vengeance Demon and Reflections is more of a psychological horror that either effects you or doesn't. While I found the stories to be lacking, I really enjoyed the art, especially in Vengeance Demon and some of the landscapes and panoramas he creates.
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