The Enigma of Amigara Fault

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

Remember to read from right to left.

The story opens in the aftermath of an earthquake that destroyed several towns and villages. Following the earthquake, a large fault was discovered in the epicenter on the north slope of Amigara Mountain.

"This was the sign... of the beginning of this strange incident."









Yoshida's looking for something that she was on TV--a hole in her exact shape. When Owaki points out to her that these holes must be thousands of years old, she responds "I knew it was me. It doesn't have to make sense!"

A  man named Nakagaki introduces himself and says he came here for the exact thing--his hole. Most of the other people here have come for the same reason. He points to a hole in the rock, and tells them that it's his.



The rescue squad is called, and one of them attempts to go into the hole himself, but to no avail.



The next morning, no sign of the man has been discovered. Yoshida tells Okawi that she has finally found her hole.



The next day, another kid finds his hole and, claiming that it was made just for him, goes inside it. More people are now entering the holes on the fault.







He tells her yes.

That night he has another nightmare. "It was another time...I don't know how long ago." In the dream, he has committed a crime and his punishment is to go through one of these holes.



Waking up from this nightmare, he realizes that Yoshida is gone...

Comments

[From: nagaoka.insanejournal.com]

OH GOD OH GOD NOT THIS CAN'T LOOK OH GOD WHY DID YOU POST THIS GOD GOD GOD....

[From: aegof.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

whyamIreadingthiswhyamIreadingthiswhyamIreadingthis

[From: the_lassiter.insanejournal.com]

Wow.

Rarely does anything get to me that's posted here. But this is way messed up.

Thanks for posting? **Brrrr**

[From: coridan.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Such refreshing terror! It's rather cleansing, in a horrific way.

[From: geoffsebesta.insanejournal.com]

[From: cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

(http://www.pict.com/)

[From: silverzeo.insanejournal.com]

... so what is the point of the story?

[From: freeman333.insanejournal.com]

DON'T GO IN THAT HOLE

[From: freeman333.insanejournal.com]

Oh good Lord. Honestly, as a claustrophobic myself, the scariest part of this whole thing was his first dream. Being trapped in a mountain like that, unable to move....guh. And when he described his second dream, that he was forced to go into the hole as punishment for a crime, my thought was, "They could just go ahead and kill me; I'd rather be executed than have to walk into a hole like that."

Of course, the end is pretty creepy too, but not in the same way. In fact, after that first dream, the ending is almost reassuring to me. "Phew, thank God, it's just some kind of hideous monster. That I can deal with. Trapped under the mountain? Not so much."

[From: marlowe84.insanejournal.com]

junji ito, why do you insist on freaking me out?!

[From: khamelea.insanejournal.com]

Gah, fatalistic nightmare logic gets me everytime.

[From: toasty_fresh.insanejournal.com]

This gets me every time. *shiver*

[From: nonnyeve.insanejournal.com]

Anyone else notice some of those holes seem to be child-sized?

[From: nagaoka.insanejournal.com]

You're trying to trick me, but I won't let you. Just the artwork from this story is enough to give me nightmares.

I'm a little confused

[From: roguefankc.insanejournal.com]

So, is it horrific because of the thoughts of claustrophobia and being trapped in a small space?

Or is the horror in how some evil entity is drawing humans to these holes?

Or is the horror that basically, the humans come out of the holes all deformed?

I'm not trying to be difficult; it's just that for some reason, I don't understand the point of how this is scary, exactly.

Re: I'm a little confused

[From: toasty_fresh.insanejournal.com]

I mean, all three? The thought of feeling powerlessly, inextricably drawn to what you know, on some level, will be your grave, the thought of being in that tight, confined space for days, of not being able to move, as your body is slowly stretched and deformed, and you slowly die, surrounded by solid rock, slowly moving forward . . . SO TERRIFYING BRB PEEING MYSELF

[From: superfan1.insanejournal.com]

I get shudders reading this every time.

[From: (Anonymous)]

*Walks up to mountain*

Oh, hey! A hole in the side of the mountain in my exact shape!

*Walks away*

THE END

[From: queen_marshed.insanejournal.com]

I don't know. I'm kinda finding this hilarious instead. Maybe I've seem too many parodies. :S

[From: gargoylekitty.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I've always found it hilarious. They're just so ridiculous looking at the end it's hard to be scared by it.

Freaked out now.

[From: proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

That is fucking terrifiying.

Ugh! Bad dreams now.

[From: idreading.insanejournal.com]

The hole is shaped to his haircut. If he'd cut his hair, it wouldn't have been his hole anymore.

...sorry, this was scarier the first time.

[From: (Anonymous)]

Horror story logic dictates that had he done this, the hole would've mysteriously changed shape the next day.

[From: icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Definitely a creepy, creepy story, and I'd say the slaustrophobia is a good starting point for the horror, and the fact that it alters them as they go through is a great ending, but it's the ongoing notion that SOMEONE/SOMETHING MADE THESE HOLES which somehow lingers as the weirdest part.

[From: coridan.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

One more thing - it also included the traditional japanese lover's suicide thing. Homeboy failed to protect his love, so he went in with her.

CB

[From: kaetepixie.insanejournal.com]

Strangely this comic mainly makes me feel sympathy for the poor government workers who will have to clean up all these hideous deformed former people when they finally all ooze out.

[From: coridan.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Also, the notion that this is all punishment for a crime of some kind also makes it mysterious and horrific.

[From: midare.insanejournal.com]

I'm torn between looking for more work by this guy right now or avoiding anything done by him forever and ever.

[From: cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

It depends on your standards. This is far from his most grotesque work (one word: snails) but at the same time this is probably one of the scarier concepts he's done.

[From: leikomgwtfbbq.insanejournal.com]

AUGH AUGH AUGH AUGH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I'm already severely claustrophobic and this just terrifies me so much. T___T JUNJI ITO, YOU MAGNIFICENT HORROR-WRITING BASTARD.

[From: rushhouragain.insanejournal.com]

UGGGH NOOOOOOOOOO This is the 3rd time I've seen this and I always end up reading the entire thing every. single. time. It's like that hole, I know it's bad for me, scares the shit out of me, yet I can't help myself.

So scared. DDD;

[From: magnetic_regina.insanejournal.com]

Oh god. Why did I click on this? Especially at night!

I need to go watch Yu-Gi-Oh! abridged or something now.

[From: nagaoka.insanejournal.com]

Scans Daily needs to start some sort of therapy group for this story, I think.

[From: yotsuba123.insanejournal.com]

This right here is one of my favorite short horror stories ever for its WTF value.

EVAR.

I have friends who would not speak to me for weeks after I showed them this.

...alas that I never got to show them GYO.