Mimi no Kaidan
Mimi's Tales of Terror

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Spooky!!⚰️
This year I started to read Junji Ito's Mangas, but Mimi caught me.
I think this is the best manga ahead Uzumaki or Soichi *my favorites before Mimi* I really really recommend this manga.
I will be very transparent with you, I did not knew the original work "Shin Mimibukuro" I will probably see the work someday.
Mimi's character remembers me "Kirie" from Uzumaki, but with other context because here we have short histories, not a long history like Uzumaki. I think the art is good, I like womens next door's draw. We can see the stranger things in Mimi's life with her boyfriend.
So... that's all. Enjoy ... this magnific adventure about "Mimi and her stories from beyond the grave" called in Argentina.
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I don't know why I read this Manga again...

This was the first manga I read of the master of Horror Junji Ito, coincidentally this being one of the weakest mangas he has ever done. I'm only logging that manga again because I just read an English translation of it, I don't know why I did it, but I did.

The best story in this manga is definitely "The Seashore", being one of the scariest in the entire manga (in my opinion)

The manga is very light for a Junji Ito horror, being great for non-Horror readers and beginners in this new universe, but I feel that it ... is a bit of a thorn in the side because whoever reads this manga and bases Junji Ito only on that, will think that his stories are stupid like these.

"Fragments of Horror" is certainly the best manga (and collection) to start in this world of our beloved Mangaka...

Mimi's Ghost stories was, in effect, my first Junji Itou... which I read 15 - 18 years back!

I obviously didn't know who he was at the time. Now almost 2 decades later, and I still remember some of these panels! That's the mark of greatness right there.

This collection is a bit different compared to the author's usual works. They are in fact much, much, MUCH tamer! That's because they weren't written by Junji, they were popular urban legends from that time period. Mimi, the protagonist, is a young lady that ends up living through them as the main framing device.

6 main chapters with a ... few "bonus" tale summaries at the end. The one that stuck in my head for over a decade was oddly Graveman, the most harmless of the bunch but for some reason the most disturbing.

Overall I do have mixed feelings about this one. Yes it was creepy... in the early 2000s. Not so much now though.

I would recommend it for a lightweight of the genre or someone looking into the author's lesser known work, but that's about it.