World Apartment Horror

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I will just be rating based on the two chapters I was able to read.
The only English translations I could find were for Chapter 2 Visitors and Chapter 4 Joyful Bell.

Satoshi Kon is an excellent director and has written some nice work as well. Generally, I praise his work but because this is not finished I think it was decent but enjoyable to read.

Visitors was an interesting chapter to read where a family moves into a home in a good area that is accessible to the train for a surprisingly good deal. The owners who lived beforehand left after 3 months of living there. Not ... only is the house haunted but the only one who says anything about it is the youngest girl and the mom tries to shut her down whenever she mentions it. This was a nice short read.

On the other hand, I can't really say much about Joyful Bell. There wasn't enough substance for me to really say much about it.

The only reason I even picked up this manga was because I liked another work of Satoshi's, Kaikisen.
The art style was of course similar but a little worse than Kaikisen.

There are 4 different chapters, they are not related at all. They are just simple horror ghost stories, but what the 4 chapters have in common is that they all revolve around the same concept of the house being haunted. I hate the horror genre because it's too scary for me, but this was nothing.

I somehow pulled through the 2 chapters, they weren't interesting in the least, both of them were very cliché. I ... really didn't enjoy this work of Satoshi's unfortunately. I feel like the chapters are lacking substance, and with such little background, the chapters are hard getting attached to.