World Apartment Horror

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Japanese: ワールドアパートメントホラー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 4

Status: Finished

Published: 1991

Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Slice of Life, Supernatural

Themes: Mythology, Samurai

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Magazine (Monthly)

Authors: Otomo, Katsuhiro (Story), Kon, Satoshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 6.45¹ (scored by 677 users)

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Ranked: #16828²

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Members: 3,377

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Ranked #16828Popularity #6222Members 3,377

MangaYoung Magazine (Monthly)Otomo, Katsuhiro (Story), Kon, Satoshi (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

Collection of four stories by Satoshi Kon:

-World Apartment Horror
Manga adaptation of Otomo's self-directed live-action film of the same name.
A bumbling Yakuza member is sent to rid an old and rotten apartment block of its foreign occupants, but finds it a lot harder than expected when he discovers an evil spirit still resides there.

-Visitors

-Waira

-Joyful Bell

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Background

World Apartment Horror was published in Italian by Edizioni Star Comics on April 1, 2006.

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May 9, 2020

emilyluna

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (2/4 eps)

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 ...

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Aug 4, 2022

Rayar

Not Recommended

Preliminary (2/4 eps)

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 ...