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isaacada1



Joined: 04 Sep 2002
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Location: Snohomish, WA
PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:07 pm Reply with quote
How many readers like to read horror manga series? I found a site that gives a great overview of this genre.

Girls' Horror Comics
http://www.thirteens.net/~ghc/

I believe Vampire Miyu would probably be the most known series of this genre. I'm curious if people believe more titles in this genre will be released in English.
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Arkard



Joined: 15 Oct 2003
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Location: Poland
PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:18 pm Reply with quote
Damn
I really like the horror genre itself but there are so little titles out there.
I read Alive - can that be considered as a horror manga?
Also Domu:its a childs dream - is that a horror?
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Kagami no Kage



Joined: 28 Oct 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 7:26 pm Reply with quote
Petshop of Horrors!

It's not really horrifying though... Confused
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Mou Kaoru



Joined: 17 Oct 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:02 pm Reply with quote
Junji Ito's stuff is my fav horror manga.
Tomie and Flesh-colored Horror were great.
Uzumaki gave me nightmares.
I read some of GYO, but from what I glanced over it looks pretty freaky.
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sacchan



Joined: 13 Mar 2003
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Location: Okinawa, Japan
PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 7:52 am Reply with quote
"Umi no Yami Tsuki no Kage" by Chie Shinohara is a great shoujo horror story.

It's about twin girls who gain psychic powers through a virus. And one of them turns evil and wants to kill the other...
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Lupin_333



Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 11:03 pm Reply with quote
I'm really liking GYO right now. It's very disturbing.
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Carol Maxwell



Joined: 17 Oct 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:03 am Reply with quote
How can there really be an horror comics? You're reading it, it doesn't have the same effect as it does watching it. When you watch it, you jump with surprise, when you read it, you can kind of see what happens when you flip the page, therefore, kind of spoiling the surprise.
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Lupin_333



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:26 pm Reply with quote
Horror comics, or at least the good ones anyways, have to use special tricks to scare you. Since pretty much anything goes in manga, they have to, instead of scare, disturb. If you've ever seen the movie The Exoricist, then you know what I'm talking about. That movie's not very scary, but it's disturbing. That's the same feeling a good horror manga should give you.
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Carol Maxwell



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:32 pm Reply with quote
That makes sense. And according to some people who have seen SM&7B (save for the few that are immune to it) would agree with that. But, for someone like me, I need that surprise, or I just look at something that's disturbing and do one of the following: laugh or say it's cool.
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