The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

[Cloudman]

Dravenet7 said:

Cloudman said:

I think I'm way over-due on a spooky manga, so I'm gonna deliver. This one's not quite a horror though. It's more... supernatural perhaps?

Either way, this one's quite a bit different from a usual horror, and it's called Vanilla Spider. This one's about webs that hang above the city, where strange spider creatures feed on people by taking over the bodies of other humans and using them to eat others. How they use humans to do this, well...

 

It's a strange manga, but it's something different. So there's that. However, they don't stand unchallenged in the story. A student at the school fights against them, acting as a sort of 'Spider Slayer' with the help of his trusted weapon, a... faucet pole weapon thing.... He's also trying to protect a girl he has a crush on.

So yeah, that's the manga, with some suspense, action, and mystery, especially with the man the MC works for; another alien who wears the skin of dead people and assists him in the spider killings.

And if that's not your thing, you can just read the misadventures of elevator-chan

I've been looking at this for a couple of days, trying to figure out whether this is a horror of comedy. After reading it, I ended up liking it, but I can bring myself to think of it as exactly horror either lol. It reminds me a lot of Parasyte in concept in some ways. Except for the guy who wears people... lol. Like, I know you said it already, but I didn't really process it until way into reading it.

Yeah, this is definitely an oddball manga in terms of 'horror'. There are some horrific moments, but it is comical as well at times. And perhaps more so with his other titles, there just seems to be be something odd and a little unsettling under the surface of this author's works. In Vanilla Spider for example, there's of the glasses girl's friends who just seems unusually large compared to everyone else.