What Is Dragon Head About? High schooler Teru Aoki wakes up in the wreckage of a bullet train (Japan’s high-speed rail network) that has crashed inside a tunnel. Almost every passenger is dead. The tunnel is sealed at both ends by cave-ins. There’s no light, no rescue, and no communication with the outside world. Teru … Read more
What Is the Doubt Horror Manga About? — Premise and the Rabbit Doubt Game The short version: Doubt is a completed 4-volume horror-mystery manga by Yoshiki Tonogai about six friends who play a mobile phone game called Rabbit Doubt, then wake up trapped in an abandoned hospital where the game has become lethally real. One … Read more
Doubt — Disturbing Manga as Survival Thriller Author: Yoshiki Tonogai Volumes: 4 Serialized: 2007–2009 English Publisher: Yen Press (a company that translates manga into English for Western readers) What It’s About A group of friends who play “Rabbit Doubt” — a mobile phone game where players must identify a hidden wolf among them before they’re … Read more
Uzumaki — Junji Ito The setup: The small town of Kurouzu-cho becomes infected by spirals. Not a metaphorical obsession — a literal one. People begin seeing spirals everywhere. They become fixated on them. They contort their bodies into them. And the madness spreads like a contagion, consuming the entire town one person at a time. … Read more