Talk:In Between the Static/@comment-6862307-20140117151508/@comment-6862307-20140117204316

Gyo seems to be Ito's most popular work next to Uzumaki, and I like Uzumaki more as I stated though I will admit that I think Gyo is more disturbing in the foul, unpleasant sort of way and it's a bit more technologically oriented as compared to the rest of his works which are more supernatural, although there are some elements of that mixed in as well. I think one of the things I like so much about Ito is the sort of mythic level to his work, not unlike something like Lovecraft where his stories, strange as they are, feel like they tap into a natural part of the universe that we simply cannot understand - but with a more Asian flavour.

I have heard of Shintaro, I have not read any of his works. The only other horror manga I've read outside of Ito's works are Hideshi Hino's sickening but brilliant Jigokuhen AKA "Panaroma of Hell," and I have also read one volume of M.P.D. Psycho after enjoying the bizarre and silly live action TV version by Takashi Miike, who did "Audition" and "Gozu," films I quite like. "Gozu" especially if not solely for how fucking mad it is. But anywho, I only barely got through the M.P.D. Psycho volume before deciding I wasn't going to bother. I mentioned in my review of Black Dog & Goat that I am a little troubled that rape seems to be an inevitability in the NSFW pastas here, but that at the very least I hadn't yet run into any pastas that legitimately felt like the author was some misogynistic shit that actually fantasizes about the subject or worse - and my take away from M.P.D. Psycho though was that the author and artist were legitimately fucked up, not only did it actually graphically show the rape save for the actual penetration shot but it sure loved showing naked women in overtly sexualized poses with mutilated genitals and missing heads and other extremities so yeahhh.... I didn't have a good experience with that one.