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Beneath the Tangles Reader's Corner Turns to Horror Manga and Picture Books
Beneath the Tangles' latest Reader's Corner rounds up seven releases for Halloween, led by three Japanese horror picture books from VIZ Media. Miyuki Miyabe writes A Bad Book, illustrated by Hisanori Yoshida.
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Why it matters
The column puts VIZ Media's three Horror Picture Books alongside new horror-adjacent work from Itagaki and Horikoshi, framing the Halloween season around established manga authors moving into picture-book and adult horror material.
Key Facts
- VIZ Media is releasing three Horror Picture Books this month, including A Bad Book by Miyuki Miyabe with illustrations by Hisanori Yoshida.
- Paru Itagaki's Witching Hour Vol. 1 follows a housewife named Megumi and a zombie she calls Gho.
- Kohei Horikoshi's horror work Quit Laughing, Shijima is covered in the same column.
- Kaiju No. 8 Vol. 16 is the series' concluding volume.
- The column also covers a deluxe edition of Pokémon Adventures: Red and Blue.
The column also covers Paru Itagaki's Witching Hour Vol. 1, Kohei Horikoshi's Quit Laughing, Shijima, a Junji Ito picture book, Kaiju No. 8 Vol. 16, and a deluxe Pokémon Adventures: Red and Blue edition.
The roundup groups three VIZ Media Horror Picture Books with a batch of manga releases. Miyuki Miyabe wrote A Bad Book, and Hisanori Yoshida drew its illustrations, which the column describes as starting out as warm children's decor and growing more menacing. The other two picture books in the set are Is It There or Not and Looking at Me.
Paru Itagaki's Witching Hour Vol. 1 follows a housewife named Megumi and a zombie she calls Gho. The column notes sexual content, nudity, and coarse language and labels the volume strictly for adults. Kaiju No. 8 Vol. 16 closes out that series, and the Pokémon Adventures: Red and Blue deluxe edition collects the early adventures in a new format.
- Horror Picture Book: A Bad Book: Written by Miyuki Miyabe, illustrated by Hisanori Yoshida, published by VIZ Media
- Horror Picture Book: Is It There or Not: Part of VIZ Media's three-book horror picture book release
- Horror Picture Book: Looking at Me: Part of VIZ Media's three-book horror picture book release
- Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 16): The series' concluding volume
- Pokémon Adventures: Red and Blue, Deluxe Edition: A new edition of the Red and Blue adventures
- Quit Laughing, Shijima: Kohei Horikoshi's horror work
- Witching Hour (Vol. 1): Paru Itagaki's adult story about a housewife and a zombie
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