Thank you to NetGalley, VIZ Media, and Junji Ito for the opportunity to read this manga in exchange for an honest review.

I have read many (but not all) of Junji Ito's works, and this one certainly had a different vibe to it. Classic Junji Ito horror style artwork with some super weird crap within, but the plot was very different than his traditional.

A woman is the sole survivor of a volcanic eruption and emerges with this golden hair that people seem to worship as it sprouts out of the volcano. A reporter seeks this sole survivor to see what mystery surrounds her and to see if he can maybe solve what is going on. This mysterious woman has an interesting link to the larger universe.

There are some weird suicide bugs and very strange god-like visions, and of course some wacked out horrific images that give the reader a serious "WTF" moment. Ito fans will possibly find this a bit odd (for Ito's work, anyway), but will enjoy it nonetheless. A quick read that has my brain contemplating the universe in a way it shouldn't (i.e. an intriguing work from Ito).

Bazaar. Eerie. Dark. Not sure how else to describe this. It was weird. Not my typical manga and I don’t know how to critique it. Is it a stand alone? Or is there more to the story? I wasn’t sure.

Overall, the story was creative. I think the suicide bugs was an ingenuous idea. I feel like I need to read it again to understand what is really going on. It was rather creepy. No foul language was used, but I would still put it at a 15+ or something like that because of the storyline.

Thank you Netgalley and VIZ media for this ARC. I will consider getting it for my library, but it was not my type of book.

An enjoyable cosmic horror story from a master of horror manga.

I did not find the story as horrifying or disturbing as previous titles. Found the middle chapters to be the best visually with some body horror. I see Sensor as a great place to start reading Junji Ito’s works if the size of Uzumaki or grotesqueness of Gyo is daunting.