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marlowe84 (marlowe84) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-18 20:55:00

Entry tags:

creator: junji ito, medium: manga, title: gyo

Ohnoshark!
I was reading this manga the other day, and I feel like I just have to share.

3 pages from Junji Ito's Gyo under the cut. It might be a spoiler, although it happens fairly early on in the series. As it's manga, panels read from right to left.

In Japan, fish have inexplicably grown legs and are running amok. Also, sometimes your significant other may have unreasonable expectations of you!

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	foxhack 2009-10-19 12:48 am UTC (link)
	Remember folks, this is the same author who wrote Uzumaki and that Frankenstein adaptation we've seen posted here recently. And this is freaking me the FUCK OUT. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	marlowe84 2009-10-19 12:58 am UTC (link)
	"And this is freaking me the FUCK OUT." Really? I can't stop laughing at it! There's a shark.... IN YOUR HOUSE! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-10-19 01:45 am UTC (link)
	That thing doesn't have legs. It has tentacles. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-19 01:58 am UTC (link)
	No, it has legs. Big, metal, vaguely insectoid legs. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	marlowe84 2009-10-19 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Actually, it has both! The tentacles are attached to it's gills, the spindly leg things allow them to move around. Although they're more like tubes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-10-19 12:53 am UTC (link)
	...Candygram. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-19 01:12 am UTC (link)
	... Dammit! I was going to make that joke! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	khamelea 2009-10-19 02:25 am UTC (link)
	I was going to go with something like: "It didn't even ring the doorbell." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	just_mrasaki 2009-10-19 04:28 am UTC (link)
	chokes, cough, hack, DIES LAUGHING Damn, I love this comm. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dejadrew 2009-10-19 04:31 am UTC (link)
	YES. That sketch keeps running through my head whenever I read this damn manga. Hard to be properly horrified when you're giggling maniacally. "You're the undead mechanical shark and you know it!" "Ah, I, I'm only an undead mechanical dolphin, ma'am." "An undead mechanical dolphin? Well, okay." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dejadrew 2009-10-19 04:46 am UTC (link)
	Also... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tsunamiwombat 2009-10-19 07:35 am UTC (link)
	What tags do you use to include icon images in your post? D: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dejadrew 2009-10-19 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	??? Just a regular img source tag to where the pic is saved in photobucket. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	re_weird 2009-10-25 08:02 am UTC (link)
	I'm so snagging this. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darkblade 2009-10-19 01:08 am UTC (link)
	I know this should be scary but I can't stop laughing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	danielolsen 2009-10-19 01:45 am UTC (link)
	Actually. Gyo is Ito's idea of the best B-movie ever. Whatever works as long as you appreciate walking fish. Just wait till the shark chases a tank in a scene that might as well be put to Yakity Sax. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-19 01:59 am UTC (link)
	Two words: Kaori's death. KAORI'S DEATH. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marlowe84 2009-10-19 02:21 am UTC (link)
	I dunno, I thought the blimp was the real show-stopper! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	crinosg 2009-10-19 02:26 am UTC (link)
	Honestly though, and I hate to say it, but I can't have much sympathy for Kaori, considering how much of a bitch she'd was before she became a bloated stink ball in a spider machine. I mean look at that, she's yelling at her boyfriend for not fighting a fucking shark. A shark on legs I mean that's bitchery on the level of the girlfriend from Hobgoblins. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

penguinzero
2009-10-19 04:18 am UTC (link)

Meh, she's being chased through a building by a shark on legs. Under the circumstances, I can understand an irrational panicked response due to stress, and I'm inclined to give her the benefit of a doubt. Because, dude, shark on legs.

Having read nothing else of this manga, of course, I have no idea if she's like that when not in imminent danger of being eaten.

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	crinosg 2009-10-19 04:30 am UTC (link)
	Well, Kaori's whole hang up is about her sensitive nose; she freaks out around anything that smells bad, and insists that her boyfriend keep taking showers and crap. Which really sucks for her, since the big gimmick of these monsters is the gas they produce that powers their spider legs stinks to high heaven. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-19 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Gyo is Ito's idea of the best B-movie ever He's right. He's sooooooo right. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-10-19 02:27 am UTC (link)
	I think its more like his take on the zombie movie, since that's what these things basically are. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkblade 2009-10-19 04:00 am UTC (link)
	Now I'm imagining Thriller dancing sharks. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dcanacek 2009-10-19 01:38 am UTC (link)
	LANDSHARK! (Reply to this)

	just_mrasaki 2009-10-19 04:28 am UTC (link)
	So, um, I understand context is for the weak and all, but what the fuck is going on here? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-19 05:26 am UTC (link)
	At this point in the story, it's unknown - all anyone knows is that there are fish (stinky, stinky fish) walking on land. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ninjapeps 2009-10-19 05:03 am UTC (link)
	sharks! (Reply to this)

	abates.livejournal.com 2009-10-19 08:04 am UTC (link)
	... Sky-Byte? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nagaoka 2009-10-19 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	If these sharks started spouting poetry they still wouldn't be half as awesome as Sky-byte is. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stig 2009-10-19 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Wasn't this the one with the farting-disease that makes you suicidal? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-10-19 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	No, its the farting disease that makes you fat and bloated and pimple covered, then paralyzes you, then one of those empty spider leg things picks you up and uses you as a power source to move around. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lady_mondegreen 2009-10-19 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	Sharks are more afraid of you than you are of them. (Reply to this)