ZASHIKI ONNA
STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
1
RELEASE
July 6, 1993
CHAPTERS
11
DESCRIPTION
Hiroshi Mori is an ordinary college student leading an unremarkable life, until one day he hears someone ringing his neighbor's doorbell over and over again. He goes out onto the landing and finds a strange woman in a trenchcoat―whose tenacious attention soon transfers to him. Stalked and harrassed by this monstrous woman, Hiroshi tries to find out the truth about her before she ruins his life completely.
(Source: Kodansha USA)
CAST
Hiroshi Mori
CHAPTERS
REVIEWS
ThelewdOtaku
Don't recommend, its rather shoddyContinue on AniListWell, there isn't much to say about this manga in all honesty.
It's about a dude who encounters some unhinged phantom of a woman while he's getting ready for bed, doing college dude stuff and killing time.
A lot of horror manga with phantom lady plots start the same way from what I have read, dude has neighbor who has weird stalker creature/woman/thing WHATEVER unbeknownst to him and somehow manages to gain it's love and or attention after the briefest of brief encounters with it.
It's nothing new, at all, and I would honestly say the fact that it takes on such a common and generic cookie cutter premise and manages to make it somehow more boring than it already is pretty impressive.
I love horror manga, even the bad ones, I just do. I find them borderline addicting and I just can't get enough, but this one is just boring without any of the charm or quirks of your standard horror manga. It's not even B-Movie tier, it's just bad movie tier ya know?
The art though, is dated and I do find it nostalgic in a sense but it does not fit this type of stories tone or theme whatsoever, I'm sure it could but in this instance it was just left as is and untouched. There was no real effort to make it work or seem more appealing, which I think may also be the point seeing as it's an urban legend based manga.
Maybe the author wanted it to seem grounded which would make some sense given the fact that the rest of the story is realistic outside of a few gripes here and there that are honestly easily to forgive and glance over.
I do hate the apparition/woman whatever it is though, and just how it's portrayed in general. I don't know what it is about some of the horror manga I've read and their weird fixation on women being ugly.
Because that's literally the only about this woman that is "off putting" or "ghastly". She's just tall and happens to be unattractive, not even grotesquely so either, she's just like a 3/10 or something. It makes the whole manga sort of a pain to read, because you just have this giga chad 7 foot tall lady being a weirdo and tanking shots like she's got diamond armor on under her coat and just chugged an invincibility potion or something.
It's really silly, not at all something you would take serious, and it takes you out of the story.
You see her getting curb stomped american history X style by the MCs friend then all of a sudden she's chasing him down the street like Usain Bolt while he pees his pants, it's silly and not really anything spooky.
I don't hate the manga or anything at all, and it's a crazy short read, but I don't recommend it. It's just bland, and fails to be anything. Like anything at all, It's just a story you read really.
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SCORE
- (2.9/5)
MORE INFO
Ended inJuly 6, 1993
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