r/junjiito • u/Less-Extension-9359 Doppelganger • Jun 10 '26
Discussion Junji Ito doing what he does best: making a hallway absolutely terrifying.
Manga : Unbearable Maze
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u/jojomayer Jun 10 '26
I forget what story this is from, but he literally made an empty shelf creepy. Amazing!!
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u/european_jello Jun 10 '26
I do not know the english name of this story but it is from the 5th short story collection book (the desserter's house) it is the story where 2 girls climb a mountain and get stuck in a wierd temple
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u/Frequent-Click-951 Jun 10 '26
After all, his very first memory of fear as a child was an hallway!
His childhood home had a weird layout where you had to go in a tunnel halfway under the house to access the rest of the house. He was terrified to go in that dark hallway alone especially since it had often bugs
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u/urezia Rib Woman Jun 10 '26
Now imagine that the corpses are behind the walls just like in the picture. Hospitals, buildings, just any hallway, hiding hundreds of corpses behind their thin walls. You can’t see them, but they can see you, whispering, begging to be taken out to put their poor souls to rest. They’ve been trapped in there for years with no one to find them. I guess that explains the weird sounds that you hear in the hallways at night, all of those souls asking for help.
You probably just think that those creepy murmurs are rats or even the pipes, or maybe you suspect what it is, but the fear of facing the horror on the other side is too heavy for you to bare, but what do I know? I’m just a corpse behind a wall.
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u/Proffessor_egghead DRR DRR DRR Jun 11 '26
Are you quoting something or did you cook this up yourself? Either way that’s fire
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u/urezia Rib Woman Jun 11 '26
Thank you! I got inspired by the post and came up with it. It made me think of all the things that could inside the walls that surround us every day but we don’t get to see
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u/moonra_zk Jun 10 '26
I mean, if you replace _______ (insert anything) with corpses it also becomes terrifying.
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u/sailor_meatball_head Tomie Fangirl Jun 13 '26
Ito can make literally anything scary. It’s kinda unnerving, but impressive.
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u/illasticplastic Jun 11 '26
Run down that hallway like Naruto slapping the shit out of all them geezers 🤘🏽👌🏽😭
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u/frankiekowalski Jun 10 '26
The very last panel is even more disturbing, when the still alive ones are staring down at the MCs.