 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: The Sad Tale of the Principal Post, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, Daikokubashira Hiwa, Ashura no Dansou no Kai Japanese: ギョ うごめく不気味 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 21
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 12, 2001 to Apr 15, 2002
Theme:
Psychological
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
Big Comic Spirits Authors:
Itou, Junji (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #62752 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #211
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Jan 9, 2008
Horror is a hard thing to make in comics today without just being a mindless blood bath of gore and fluids splattered across the walls. Junji Ito does a good job of providing us with good, freaky stories that scare or just plain old disturbs us. Gyo is one of his most recent stories that he took a chance with and provided us with a new look of what is under the sea. Not just that either, in this series we were also given two quick short stories at the end of the series to leave us terrified of not going under
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May 29, 2015
The manga starts as a fun read, with a creative premise and situation. Since neither the reader or the characters knew anything about what was going on, it felt eerie and weird, as in, “what the fuck is going on?”, I’d say this was a good start.
But that’s it, after the initial beach chapters, the manga starts showing it’s terribleness. Unlike most of Ito’s manga, Gyo, doesn’t have that creepy atmosphere always looming in the background, normally represented by the visuals, be it the dreadful backgrounds or the sheer expression of terror on the character’s faces. One of my main gripes with this manga is that ... 
Dec 13, 2008
Remember those B-grade horror films they air on sci-fi quite often? This is pretty much the same thing. If you've ever seen Snakehead Terror, its quite similar to that. I wouldn't recommend reading this after you've eaten, as some of the images are gruesome enough to make your stomach do loop-de-loops in your chest. The story however is very creative, and has many twists and turns you don't see coming, so if you have some down time, drop by onemanga or buy the manga if you have some extra cash, plop yourself down, and you'll never want to eat Sushi again.
Oct 19, 2011
Gyo— another masterpiece by Junji Ito after 'Uzumaki', one of the greatest horror manga series that could have ever been made! Having his works equipped with bizarre plots and aberrant visuals, Junji has proved that horror is not necessarily synonymous with 'the ghost with long black hair' or 'the evil, bloodsucking vampires lurking in the bush out there'. He has the ability to create gruesome horror out of anything and everything, even if it is a fish. Fish— that's exactly what he portrays in 'Gyo', well, in an extremely absurd way that is beyond anyone's imagination with Junji being an exception of course.
The manga ... 
Dec 16, 2009
In the beginning "Gyo" pulls you in with it's weirdness. The things shown are so odd that it makes you wonder how it's going to be explained and what the meaning behind it is.
Unfortunately, there is no meaning behind this story as far as i can discern. Unfortunately, the explanations given are very poor and hard to believe. It makes me wonder, what is the point of this manga? What did the author try to convey, if anything? I guess this manga does offer some very disturbing images which may be enjoyable (they did not affect me a lot, positively or negatively) but what value is there ...
Apr 20, 2015
Even though I think this story is very good, I have to admit to not finding it even a little bit scary. More than anything, the things that happen in this story are very gross, bizarre, and hilarious. It's a unique, interesting concept overall, but I think its scare factor really relies on whether one is afraid of fish and the ocean or not; if you aren't scared by those things, you probably won't find this story scary.
Sep 8, 2016
Ito Junji's Gyo is a work that builds on the themes, art style and narrative structure of past works. Fans of Uzumaki, Tomie, and other past mangas will feel right at home with Gyo. That said, Gyo does not measure up to the best of Ito's work, or even the best of the genre.
Gyo starts off strong with a very solid premise, and a very interesting meta-narrative, however it fails to deliver as most of the characters and much of the plot manages to annoy more than frighten or startle. I would recommend Gyo to fans of Ito's other work, as it remains fairly popular, but ... 
May 11, 2009
Ah, the story circling around stink.
After reading Uzumaki, I simply had to read another work of Junji Ito. Gyo was my first choice. The first thing I noticed was the art. When people think manga or anime, they think of the huge, shining eyes, cute little turned up noses; a up-graded cartoon. I enjoyed Ito's art, it was a nice change. Breathtaking, actually. The only thing I don't like is at first it's hard to keep up with what's going on in the story. At the beginning, it's just extremly confusing. Though, as the manga unfolds, it becomes a delightfully creepy manga. I would really recommend ... 
Mar 11, 2012
There's scary, and then there's senselessly scary. 'Gyo' frightened me beyond belief, more than any horror movie or book I've watched or read before. Truly, this is a tererifying manga.
The story is about a couple, Tadashi and Kaori, who are visiting a remote Japanese island on holiday. However, they encounter a walking fish in their house, and this quickly grows into one of the most horrible apocalypses that anyone could have ever dreamt up. This manga disturbed me- I highly recommend it. 
Oct 1, 2011
In light of Gyo being set to become an anime, I decided it was time to finally read it. I adore Junji Ito's work and have read Uzumaki, Tomie, Black Paradox and now Gyo, particularly drawn by the way he draws such amazing and grosteque pages.
Story - I originally didn't read Gyo as I didn't think it would be that creepy. I mean 'fish with legs', how on earth could that be creepy? And yet again, as always, Junji Ito shocks and awes with his amazing art and fascinating story line. I don't want to spoil the plotline for you but it is very interesting, ... 
Nov 10, 2009
If your a fan of zombies and fish then look no further for your aquatic horror fix. Gyo is the story of a world under siege by at first what seems to be spider versions of the entire underwater kingdom but later turns out to be crazy spider machines that take control of any living thing turning it into a walking biological weapon. The story follows Tadashi and for some part his easily hate able girlfriend Kaori as Tadashi attempts to survive the invasion and look after his girl, discovering the source of the invasion and his uncles involvement in it along
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Sep 21, 2010
I will be totally honest - I love Junji's works. Ever since the first Junji's manga I've read I knew he'll be one of my favourite mangakas. He has the ability to write a great grotesque horror and I just simply respect him for that.
And Gyo isn't different here, it's just simply another masterpiece which has the ability to give you goosebumps or nausea, if you're eating anything while reading this title. The art is simply amazing - he's a guy writing horror mangas, still his art is really manga-ish. But what I love about his arts are these macabre pictures. After you read about ... 
Sep 9, 2014
Horror has kind of been in a rut, at least in western media. It kind of seems to be stuck in a MORE GORE state of mind, where bodily fluids are the hot ticket, and nothing becomes unique or memorable. Gyo however, takes this in a direction that I like.
I will say, I do prefer the bonus stories to the main story. They almost have a strange parable aspect to them, with some message behind them, this being far more clear in the Principle Post short story than the fault. That being said, I think the fault was my favorite. It was strange, surreal, ... 
Feb 11, 2019
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Mutant fish, the scent of death, whales and sharks walking around on land, mad scientists, a creepy circus and tubes up a human's anus. You may be wondering what I'm babbling about, if you're not, then you're probably a fellow Itou fan. Gyo is a story I had heard of as an Itou fan but had never paid much attention to. I knew it existed, I knew it was strange and screwed up, but I never really paid much heed to it before deciding to add it as one of ... 
Nov 19, 2012
Gyo was the first horror manga I ever read and it was also probably the weirdest manga I have ever read.
Freaky fish run rampant in this manga and not in a cool "yay fish" way. The fish get creepy and even beyond creepy. The plot is... wait there was a plot? Hard to notice. I guess that makes sense because this is a horror manga but still. There were more panels about the freakishly grotesque fish-things than actual talking about what the heck was going on in the book. This manga turned me off to wanting to read any other horror manga because of how ... 
Jan 1, 2023
I’m a very big Junji Ito fan so this review is definitely going to be a bit biased. Having said that I absolutely LOVED Gyo. It’s just so incredibly insane and weird that I ended up finishing the manga in one sitting. Just when you think: ‘this isn’t going to get weirder’. Junji Ito manages to do just that. Every page turn was a f-ing jump scare, the art is just phenomenal. If you decide to pick it up you’re sure in for a wilde ride until the very end.
Personally I really like the weird storyline and the weirder it got the more I wanted ... 
Sep 8, 2020
So in Mr Ito's next manga ,we see machine legged fish attacking humans , a circus that looks to be extreme Tim Burtonish and humans then dragged to the machines the fish were attached in the first place, with also them being monsters.
Now I gotta say, the ending man was a literal near tearjerker even if you didn't like this certain character in the first place. Since I'm gonna make this review spoiler free, you can go read it yourself to what happened. This manga really wasn't that extreme as Uzamaki like it reminds me of the Facebook stickers that includes Business Fish. Well ... 
Jun 12, 2020
It lost me as it drug on, caught my attention again with the circus arc, and then lost me again at the end. A lot of really cool body horror, but the overall story and ending definitely lacked.
I am a hoe for anything circus related, and despite it not doing much for the plot it intrigued me nonetheless. There are many things I could pick apart about this manga but I'm trying to enjoy it based on the art alone, which is really sick. I find, so far at least, that is my problem with ito as a mangaka. He tends to have really cool art ... 
Jan 24, 2024
Just like Uzumaki, I feel that Gyo started out very well, perfectly conveying that feeling of strangeness, but little by little it was lost.
I don't know if it's us, the readers, who simply get used to the absurdity of ideas, but what I noticed is that Ito presents us with something we've never seen before and then makes it so absurd that we're not actually scared or uncomfortable, but yes, just admiring how quickly it escalated. Which for me takes a lot of the tension out of the scenes. In fact, that might be why I preferred the beginning of his manga. I even had fun ... |
