Anything But a Ghost

[cyberghostface]

This was first posted here back in 2013. I thought it was appropriate for the season.

Shigeru is driving in the dark when he comes across a confused young woman who appears to be bleeding heavily.



He rushes her to hospital but the doctors discover the blood is not hers. She is taken away by the police, who question Shigeru, but he can't answer.


She tells him her name is Misaki and she had been working on a student film with her friends, but got separated from them.





Shigeru wakes late and sees Misaki bleeding heavily onto the pillows. However, he's more concerned with rushing home to his pregnant wife Yuina, making lame excuses when she asks him where he was.

Shigeru tries to break off his affair with Misaki but she tells Yuina.



Misaki continues to pursue Shigeru, telling him she stays with him because she needs to eat ghosts to stay alive. She tells him that Yuina and their baby have now joined the ghosts surrounding him.

Comments

[onsokumaru]

If there is something strange in your neighborhood
Who you gonna call?
Misaki!

[captainbellman]

I was going to say, if not for that ending this feels like it would be the opening episode to some bizarre buddy comedy.

[crinos]

That's kind of where my mind went too.

"Um, Venkman?"

"Yeah Ray?"

"Why is there a Japanese girl standing outside of the firehouse with a pair of forks and a bib?"

"I've learned not to ask too many questions about these things Ray."

[mizerous]

I ain't afraid of no Yurei!

[lb_lee]

Man, but I love Junji Ito's art. How he balances normal every day scenes with horror, his inks, all of it.

[deh_tommy]

Would the ghosts that this Lady consumes just cease to exist, or do they become part of her a la Shang Tsun?