ギョ〜うごめく不気味〜 - Gyo - The Eerie Wriggle - Part 2 第11話／青白い華織(Blue-white Kaori) 第12話／死臭の発明(The Invention of the Death Stench) 第13話／後継者たち(The Successors) 第14話／まとわりつく死臭(The Sticking Stench) 第15話／死臭サーカス団（１）(The Stinking Circus 1) 第16話／死臭サーカス団（２）(The Stinking Circus 2) 第17話／第二研究室の死臭(The Second Smelly Lab) 第18話／死臭空襲(Arial Stench) 最終話／死臭の時代(Age of the Death Stench) 特別収録 (Special Additions) 大黒柱悲話(The Sad Story of the Founding Pillar) 阿弥殻断層の怪(The Strange Story of the Ancient Husk Faultline) Description: The second Gyo book contains my least favourite two episodes; Tadashi's search for the mechanized gas producing animated corpse of his girlfriend takes him to a circus where an over-the-top ringmaster provides some useless exposition into the origins and nature of the gas being produced by the machines/organisms. After that things improve, and the story does seem to take on an interesting allegorical edge before ending in one of Junji Ito's typically brutal and affecting melancholy endings. Two extra short stories are included at the back, and while The Sad Story of the Founding Pillar just makes for filler, the final story is excellent. In The Strange Story of the Ancient Husk Faultline (sorry for the awkward translation), an earthquake uncovers a bizarre face of rock in the mountains with human-shaped holes burrowed into the surface. People, having seen these holes on TV, hike into the mountains and recognize that the shapes in the cliff match their own sillouettes; one by one, succumbing to a feeling of existential helplessness, they strip off their clothes and voluntarily entomb themselves. An excellent short story. Reader Reviews Review (will be limited to 2000 characters in length) Name