“Junji Ito really is good at thinking up horrible ways to die.
One of my favorites (not from this collection): You approach a stone wall, and you see a cutout that’s the EXACT shape of your body, and the cutout is this deep hole that goes waaaaay into the rock. And you have this unstoppable urge to enter the cutout. Because it’s the exact size and shape of your body, you just sort of slowly move forward against your will, and you have absolutely no ability to alter your course or stop yourself or whatever. By the end, you’re extruded on the other side of the walk wall, like one of those Play-Doh things. Except instead of like a star or a tube, the shape is “Completely fucked-up body horror.” I don’t think that nozzle comes standard with most playsets.
I wish I could come up with shit like that. Which is kind of a messed-up thing to say, but, okay, let me just try:
Uhhh…okay, you bite a fingernail, then pull it, then the whole nail comes off, and then there’s like some veins and shit, and then you keep pulling and more cords and blood and stuff comes out, then you’re seeing brain and shit, and then you’re dead.
Eh?
See, Junji Ito knows what he’s doing.”