Wow! What another amazing collection from Ito!

Weeping Woman Way-Upon meeting a professional mourner, Mako is deeply affected. Her fiancé tries to figure out the mystery of the weeping women, and finds more than he expected. This was such an usual story but I really liked it. It still had a supernatural element to it, while being lighter on the horror.

Madonna- Maria is a new transfer student to her religious boarding school. She can't escape the eye of the principal, which also brings the attention of his wife, who is allegedly the second coming of Mary. Catholic schools are wild (I went for 13 years, k-12), and Ito amped it up even higher with a religious horror story about a man obsessed with finding the second coming of Mary and fathering the next Jesus. There is so much background in this short story, but it flowed so well and felt like a longer story. This was my favorite of this book.

The Spirit Flow of Aokigahara- Sick Norio travels to Aokigahara with his girlfriend, Mika, to end his life on his own terms. While searching for a spot, Norio is caught up in a spirit flow. Soon, he becomes obsessed with flow, but what exactly is it? Taking place in the infamous Suicide Forest, this story is strangely more about life and obsession. It's short and creepy, but that's about it.

Slumber- Takuya has been having some strange dreams lately. Dreams of murder. But when victims start piling up, how can he stop the dreams before he gets caught? This was an odd one! The whole "is it a dream or a memory" thing was well executed here and Takuya's slow descent into madness is perfectly Ito.

Junji Ito is truly the expert of all things creepy and originally supernatural. Every comic idea he has always feels so refreshing, even if the story is short. I loved this volume too!