In this case it is the focus on smells, germs and general icky things that gets you. It is scary because it is realistic and hits home better than most horror genres. That sort of thinking is found a lot in Japanese horror and it is why I love it so much. It isn’t straight up scary but it has plenty of ideas that are terrifying when you think about them properly. I can’t explain the horror in this book too well. That doesn’t sound too bad until you remember that sharks are fish too. You follow a young couple who spend their time being chased by fish. Gyo is about fish that sprout legs and walk out of the ocean.

It is so odd that when I finished it my partner asked what it was about and I just sat there saying “umm” because I couldn’t explain it without sounding a little mad.

I am very familiar with manga and all its oddness but Gyo not only takes the cake it takes the whole bloody bakery of weirdness and goes on a sugar filled crime spree. Also why the hell did everyone keep talking about fish? I needed in on the joke so I picked up Gyo, aka “the fish manga”. Even when I mentioned to other people that I was reading horror manga they said “have you read the fish one?” or made some sort of joke about fish. I hadn’t read any horror manga before so I combed the internet lookingįor the best horror manga that was out there and this manga popped up on EVERY list.

I love Japanese horror novels and films so this seemed like an amazing idea. So I thought it would be a good idea to read lots and lots of horror manga and write about it.

Junji ito gyo manga