Hellstar Remina, Ch. 1-3 - Atop the Fourth Wall

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Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this Patreon-sponsored episode, Linkara looks at the first three chapters of a Junji Ito manga!
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Originally released March 25th, 2019.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: So for a hellstar, do you use sunglasses or bibles against it?
#manga #junjiito #atopthefourthwall

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@Demolitiondude 5 жыл бұрын

Renima may have no agency in the story, but that's the whole point in lovecraftian stories. You're powerless to do anything. The protagonists of lovecraft's tales has some manner of defense, they're usually professors or detectives, professionals. Junji basically went what if this happens to ordinary people. Renima is basically the most ordinary person there. Both her stardom and Apocalypse parallels.

@lucamckenn5932 4 жыл бұрын

It'd just be a waste of time in story and in real life for her to truly struggle. Ito focuses on what's important and trims the fat. I'd liken his work to a tall, chiseled man, with a horribly monstrous face, but a devilish charisma to convince you to walk down a dark alley alone.

@hysterical5408 4 жыл бұрын

Even with that as the point, I personally feel that still gives makes the character's lack of agency a weak point in the story. Sure it makes sense that if you're powerless to do anything you'd probably not try and do anything at all(I mean hell, that's probably what I'd do too), but still, I feel the idea of the character still struggling, fighting for some way they can get out that situation but still fall at the end is not only a more bleak outcome, but personally I feel like that's even scarier.

@tradingoffs4668 4 жыл бұрын

This is not a Lovecraftian story. Instead, this story is driven primarily by human characters trying desperately to survive. Lovecraft's stories rarely have that human survival element. And in the end, the humans DO survive, thanks to some quick thinking from a homeless man. The notable exception though is human Remina, who doesn't seem to have a strong survival instinct and instead seems content to just go with the flow. While this type of character might be fine in a typical Lovecraftian story, it doesn't work here because everyone else is so driven.

@ChissHansen 5 жыл бұрын

Oh God! The president of Ramina's fanclub is Sinestro!

@BronzeBoy520 5 жыл бұрын

That explains nothing and too much at the same time

@TheHeroOfTomorrow 5 жыл бұрын

*Remina

@jacobmendonca8571 5 жыл бұрын

BigK13372 Fan fiction writers get on it

@Mask0fFate 4 жыл бұрын

Hmm... Mogo VS Remina... I kind of want to see that.

@repulser93 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mask0fFate Remina is basically the Anti-Matter/Sinestro Corps equivalent of Mogo.

@lynngreen7978 5 жыл бұрын

Sure nice of Remina to take the scenic route and circle the solar system multiple times to get *every* planet. I'm now imagining Remina as Pac-Man running through the asteroid belt.

@Igarappappa 5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about that in the shower. I tend to think about stuff I watch in there. ...but anyway, I realized that too. I don't even wanna try to figure out how fast that thing must have been going.

@lynngreen7978 5 жыл бұрын

@@Igarappappa Well it was approaching at at least lightspeed, so it was probably still moving at close to that until it passed the asteroids.

@Igarappappa 5 жыл бұрын

Probably. @@lynngreen7978

@lucamckenn5932 4 жыл бұрын

She likes to savor that flavor so she marinated earth with a blend of herbs, spices, cosmic dread, and Armageddon levels of paranoid delusions. That look in her eye at the end of the story says it all, "Mmm, tasty..."

@xxthisisyournamexx5073 4 жыл бұрын

mercury and venus got lucky enough that the story ended before they were eaten

@LunarSpiral1127 5 жыл бұрын

Ah, Junji Ito. The mangaka that makes even spirals scary. Seriously, his artwork is nightmare inducing.

@Regal99 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine a collaboration between him and Stephen King.

@funkyweapon1981 5 жыл бұрын

@@Regal99 Or Clive Barker.

@charlezard5579 5 жыл бұрын

So he is the cause behind Spiromainia!

@redrasegarden 5 жыл бұрын

Along with ice cream,pretty girls,grease,mountains,and apologizes

@crest2x4 5 жыл бұрын

@@redrasegarden and mirrors and vomiting orbs and bullying and peeling off your skin and glycerin...

@guillaumebabey4484 5 жыл бұрын

My guess is that Ramina's passivity and treatment is a direct analogy to what happens to real young girls who become a star, like idols. They are deified to the point of losing all agency or ability to fend for themselves.

@Chrno34 3 ай бұрын

Yup, especially in Japanese culture where their entire social life is structured to appease their fanbase.

@juon91 5 жыл бұрын

honestly, doing nothing...no not nothing, just observing the situation is the best way you can survive in itou junji's world

@InnocentsDieFirst 5 жыл бұрын

Having the Keeper of the Secrets NOT make you roll is the only way to survive.

@princealigorna7468 5 жыл бұрын

I understand what you're saying about Remina being a passive character, but I think it's trying to play into the Lovecraftian thing. In Lovecraft's stories, the main characters tend to be more observers of the insanity around them, before finally succumbing themselves in the end. That said, Lovecraft's characters do seems to have a little more agency than this at least.

@FFKonoko 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think it's that...plus she's a shy teenage girl, with absolutely no idea of anything she could possibly do.

@princealigorna7468 5 жыл бұрын

Unrelasted note: If this thing can travel at near light speed, how did they think it was a planet? I guess they could judge from the size of it. It's too small to be a star, unless it's a neutron star. But could you even get a good size estimate for an object traveling that fast? Also, how does this thing, rather it's a living organism or a planet, hold together moving that fast? E=mc^2 means that if it truly travels at light speed, it would just turn into pure energy

@alexmansfield3268 5 жыл бұрын

Prince Aligorna you don’t get lovecraftian horror do you? the entire point of cosmic horror is that we can’t understand it, it’s very existence shatters everything we know about science, and everything we thought about how the universe worked was all completely false. Trying to apply logic to these creatures would be pointless as they are living proof that out form of logic is false.

@rikowolfin4984 5 жыл бұрын

Actually it's more likely the reason for her acting like this is because of Japanese culture itself, where women are usually more shy and seen as needing to be protected, or at least that's usually what the more ideal Japanese woman is seen as. So in reality this sort of makes more sense for why she is always reacting to things, because she is a shy teenage girl who got famus through others rather than herself. It probably doesn't do any favors for the story though, but to be fair horror protagonists are hard to write being proactive (Especially in a story like this. ) instead of reactive when the whole point of things is that monsters come to try and kill them and they run away from that and react to all of the horrible things around them.

@princealigorna7468 5 жыл бұрын

@@alexmansfield3268 I take it this is in reply to my other note. It's not that I don't understand, but that I'm thinking about if something like this (minus the whole planet be an inter-universal living entity that's basically a cross between Galactus and Nemesis from Sailor Moon) happening in our reality. Would we be able to even recognize it as...anything, really? What physics would even apply if something slipped into our universe from another traveling at that kind of speed?

@T-Jex 5 жыл бұрын

All of Junji Ito' main characters are passive, male or female, is one of this author's tropes

@FFKonoko 5 жыл бұрын

And slightly cultural.

@juon91 5 жыл бұрын

Because if you get involved, you will die

@alexmansfield3268 5 жыл бұрын

BigK13372 so my best bet for survival in a junji ito manga is be to be handsome...well guess I’m gonna be the first to die

@T-Jex 5 жыл бұрын

@@alexmansfield3268 not even that, is just luck

@rikowolfin4984 5 жыл бұрын

@@BigK13372 Ehh not all of the time, sometimes you get fates worse than death and people just keep you around because what the fuck else are they going to do with students that turn into giant snails.

@ashesashes8968 4 жыл бұрын

I thought that Remina's passive reactions were meant to mirror the inescapable threat of the planet; just as everyone is victim to the threat of Remina the planet, Remina the girl is made a whipping post by everyone around her. Putting her suffering under a very human threat she can't out run alongside a cosmic and unthinkable one to put us further into the helpless mode of the story

@LaNoLaCola 5 жыл бұрын

A hellstar sounds like a good name for an opponent to the Sailor Scouts

@jgshowtime9184 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly sounds like a good villain name to... anybody.

@Peannlui 5 жыл бұрын

Or this.

@Rocketboy1313 5 жыл бұрын

@leephillips4402 5 жыл бұрын

JG Showtime beats evil star or star guy

@burntgrahamcracker2866 5 жыл бұрын

It appears linkara has found an unremitting horror. Also if you want her dead quickly crucifixion is probably the worst way to do it

@Hawkatana 5 жыл бұрын

And some of the other guys had some time to sing about looking on the bright side of life.

@cheshirefiend4130 5 жыл бұрын

I detect the faintest whiff of a reference, well played. Also, i think scaphism would be a bit worse in terms of time efficiency. It is also less immediately recognizable and dramatic in terms of imagery, but i think we should probably be happy about that considering the grossness of the act.

@FFKonoko 5 жыл бұрын

Well, presumably the stabbing helps.

@helicopteroctopus6543 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think I read somewhere that stabbing can act as a death accelerant.

@leephillips4402 5 жыл бұрын

Hawkatana always look on the bright side of life, until a giant planet eats the sun

@camerongrow6426 5 жыл бұрын

I need to see the reaction of every first time AT4W watcher to the statement "What will replace the Lady Raisens in my nightmares". Its for the benefit of humanity.

@OnDavidsBrain 5 жыл бұрын

You know in any other story if Remina went near Mars; Dr Manhattan would have taken care of this in a literal snap.

@juliagoodwin3461 5 жыл бұрын

Well, I was about to go to sleep ... this is probably not the best video to watch before bed though...

@funkyweapon1981 5 жыл бұрын

Wuss.

@juliagoodwin3461 5 жыл бұрын

@@funkyweapon1981 Eh, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was.

@Skeletondude101 Жыл бұрын

@@funkyweapon1981 Muss.

@Dreigonix 5 жыл бұрын

You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?

@chaoticjusticezero 5 жыл бұрын

21:29 Hey, Hellplanet! Let go of the frikkin' MOON already, Will ya!!!

@kidprime6863 2 жыл бұрын

I loved that review

@ZoanBlade90 5 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, at Site [REDACTED]: Dr. Clef: "Bring in SCP 343. Call in the Nine Foxes, the Red Right Hand, Last Hope, Eta-10, and The Bibliographers." Dr. McCool: "Release SCP 076-2. ...Call the Gate Guardian." Dr. Bright: "I'll contact my sister, and get her crew in the Serpent's Hand to find us. They won't attack. Humanity's at stake, after all." 05 01: "Then after all of that...Initate SCP 2000. We shall make a move for evacuation to the Wanderer's Library within the following hours. Hour, if we're short on time. Access to their knowledge will grant us access to other worlds. ...Perhaps we will not fail the next one like our own."

@benhramiak8781 3 жыл бұрын

Just foudn this comment today. Brilliant

@elenakufta3236 3 жыл бұрын

Okay ngl I would actually read the hell out of that

@ZoanBlade90 3 жыл бұрын

@@elenakufta3236 You could even make it a Series. Multiversal Moses (Universal Ark?).

@axl1178 2 жыл бұрын

SCP-2399: Reevaluating original directives. Planetary devourer determined higher priority. Alerting all repair drones to accelerate damage restorations. Recalibrating weapon systems to accommodate new targeting parameters. Compiling report on new situational development to send back to homeworld. Weapon recalibrations: complete. Situational report: complete and sent. Preparing to resume course and engage new target.

@AgentF.K 4 ай бұрын

I’m afraid you be too late to save earth after it gets devoured

@Jon_the_Wizard 5 жыл бұрын

So someone finally Patreon'd him to review that $20 lamp, huh? Took long enough for the slot to open up.

@atomicnectar 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your humor bro X’D

@ThePhantomTomo 5 жыл бұрын

I love Linkara and I never doubted him, but I never would have guessed that the surreal comics of Ito would blend so beautifully with Linkara's signature unrelenting snark. The joke about Amigara Fault and having a big lunch isn't the funniest thing I've ever heard or anything, but it's just the combo of the actual story being so tense and dour with the silly benign observation made the joke so much better. This is going to be a great review.

@dracocrusher 5 жыл бұрын

@Linkara You're actually not too off-base at all. Junji Ito's an incredibly good writer, but he's also a really weird person who, from what I heard, spends a lot of his time at a cabin in the woods away from the rest of society, which means that because of his isolation, a lot of his work is still extremely invicotive of 60s-80s manga and other older works. Which I think is really cool because he's still essentially pumping out things in a really classic style that you really don't see anymore, but, at the same time, that comes with a fair share of pitfalls too, specifically with how he handles female characters in a much older sort-of mindset. Heck, one of his most well-known manga, Tomie, is almost entirely based around a supernatural woman passively bringing men to be obsessed with her until they eventually go mad and try to cut her apart, which is.... Yeeeaahhhhh........... Lets just say it's not exactly the most progressive series in the world........ Still, though, I genuinely love his works and I'd recommend anyone interested should check them out because he really is one of the best horror artists alive today.

@SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6 5 жыл бұрын

Story features a lead who's strapped to a cross? Climax involves a big evil planet trying to destroy us while a weird cult forms on Earth regarding the planet? It's Smallville!!!

@jediroshi 5 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean Marville for that fits better to be a Cthulian horror

@leephillips4402 5 жыл бұрын

SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6 if that's true we may have been to hard on man of steel

@SomeRandomJackAss 5 жыл бұрын

The whole passive doormat thing really works in Tomie, though. That's essentially where the horror comes from. She's (for the most part) just trying to live life and enjoy herself while everyone around her in possession of a penis gets driven so madly in love with her that they feel compelled to kill her (or kill for her). It's a situation out of her control where no one comes out on top (not even her, considering she just regenerates, sometimes spawning a clone that she's compelled to try to kill). It does seem like a problem in other stories, though. I guess he he's going for an easy self-insert character like Gordon Freeman, but given that it seems to be mostly women, it's not really a good look. Alternatively, in a cosmic/Lovecraftian horror scenario, where the horror is unknowable and much much bigger than one person, what can a person do but watch and react?

@angryspork610 5 жыл бұрын

"Expect things to get squicky." Well, *I* sure picked a good video to watch while eating lunch.

@jacobellison1763 5 жыл бұрын

Junji Ito comics are the Silent Hill comics that we wanted, but not the ones that we deserve.

@AnInsideJoke 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple gal, I see a thumbnail of a disgruntled Linkara tied to a cross with tentacles surrounding him, I click.

@JaelinBezel 5 жыл бұрын

........oddly specific...

@flyingfist4203 5 жыл бұрын

I mean, doesn't everyone?

@jgshowtime9184 5 жыл бұрын

@@flyingfist4203 well obviously. I'm mean who in their right mind would turn it down?

@VekhGaming 5 жыл бұрын

I would, crosses are so passé, now tie him to a equilateral triangle that's good.

@alexmansfield3268 5 жыл бұрын

Vekh Gaming the future is now old man

@thewhizkidd7457 5 жыл бұрын

Finally! Linkara's true show, of which Atop The 4th Wall was spun off of, returns! Atop The Lightbulb! Time to remind everyone why you're THE premiere and greatest lamp reviewer of all time!!!

@jgshowtime9184 5 жыл бұрын

Ok so what kind of dad with a successful business and the money to pay for the schooling wouldn't want their son to be an astronaut?

@alexmansfield3268 5 жыл бұрын

Right, even the most selfish and greediest dad would get in on that as fast as possible. Just through a business mans eyes having an astronaut for a son would get him so much publicity, Astronaut is like the highest level of career any one could get other than say president

@user-mj4rp9gg3i 5 жыл бұрын

The one who wants his son to have a safe work and/or to have a heir to their business?

@joserobertosolismerlin5527 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-mj4rp9gg3i giving Japan culture makes sense

@mitchfletcher2386 5 жыл бұрын

And Unicron is just chilling on the right.

@thatonea-hole 5 жыл бұрын

Meh. He's too busy being a giant head floating around cybertron right now

@LetruneInedil 5 жыл бұрын

Here is a concept. Junji Ito does Mr. Computer.

@sailoritaly 5 жыл бұрын

Letrune Inedil AAAAAHHHHHHH

@mr_lrb6879 5 жыл бұрын

..... If that happens, I WELCOME Planet Remira.

@LetruneInedil 5 жыл бұрын

@@sailoritaly Sorry for the nightmare fuel... :/

@LetruneInedil 5 жыл бұрын

@@mr_lrb6879 I think only one eldritch abomination will escape that conflict, and it is not the bigger one...

@evanartist8060 5 жыл бұрын

It’s past 11 at night. I have school in the morning. Linkara uploads new video. Looks like I’m sleeping through my first hour because it’s time for some bad comics!!

@ZoanBlade90 5 жыл бұрын

Let's roll.

@mitchfletcher2386 5 жыл бұрын

@@ZoanBlade90 Same here!

@evanartist8060 5 жыл бұрын

Alex Severinski Yep. Was up for like another 2 hours. WORTH IT.

@evilnudibranch 5 жыл бұрын

Nice use of Unicron's theme.

@shawnhopkins224 3 жыл бұрын

Now you will watch your world destroyed

@BronzeBoy520 5 жыл бұрын

He’s not late posting this video, you’re late watching this.

@ElizaGWR 5 жыл бұрын

Well I am, about half an hour late actually.

@kalebsantos72 5 жыл бұрын

A wizard is never late

@Dreigonix 5 жыл бұрын

After having read the whole thing... yeah, this is one of those books that really sticks in the mind. And not just because of the scary imagery, but also because the ending is indeed surprisingly uplifting, essentially saying there is always hope for things to get better until the _very_ moment you die. Hell, I even ended up writing a song _called_ “HELLSTAR REMINA!” relating my own personal struggles with the central theme of this story and incorporating imagery from Majora’s Mask as well. So this book has really left an impact on me.

@atomicnectar 2 жыл бұрын

I’m definitely subscribing and gonna watch rest of the series

@melainakiss 5 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you covered the tamer parts. My stomach thanks you. ^.^ Also, in real life, a lot of people are passive. This was really creepy since eyes are my fear thing.

@alexkogan9755 5 жыл бұрын

Sheesh and I thought that giant monster planet alien in Megas XLR was horrifying.

@kidprime6863 2 жыл бұрын

@Alex Kogan Are talking about the episode "TV Dinner"?

@alexkogan9755 2 жыл бұрын

@@kidprime6863 Bingo!

@Dynaman21 5 жыл бұрын

What’s more terrifying, the unholy abomination of the Hellstar, or the Lady Raisins from last week?

@GabyGeorge1996 5 жыл бұрын

Dynaman21 yes.

@BronzeBoy520 5 жыл бұрын

Where do you think those raisins came from?

@the4thwallkid132 5 жыл бұрын

Both!

@Mobysimo 5 жыл бұрын

Raisans

@sailoritaly 5 жыл бұрын

N.obody Sevenhundred Hell

@skylermaves7272 5 жыл бұрын

So good to see more Junji Ito reviews

@JaelinBezel 5 жыл бұрын

I've heard that name before somewhere...

@skylermaves7272 5 жыл бұрын

@@JaelinBezel That's the guy who made the manga Uzumaki, he made Gyo, Tomie, this, and several other horror manga. They even made an anime in the style of the Twilight Zone based off of his works.

@JaelinBezel 5 жыл бұрын

@@skylermaves7272 I don't know any of those titles.

@johnkirby8939 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Diamanda Hagen did a really good review on the Gyo anime.

@Wanderingsage7 5 жыл бұрын

Oh hey, Silent Hill finally rose up as it's own planet and started carousing around the multiverse. ...good for it, it needed a new local.

@JinxProductions 5 жыл бұрын

This reboot of Majora’s Mask is weird

@thatonea-hole 5 жыл бұрын

I know right!

@christianogden2825 5 жыл бұрын

Joker said it best. When the chips are down, civilized people will eat each other

@imreplyingtothiscomment2378 5 жыл бұрын

Can't believe your doing this thanks

@LagrimaArdiente 5 жыл бұрын

I saw the Megaman joke coming from a mile away and I still laughed.

@joshyfox1 5 жыл бұрын

Aw Sweet! The 2019 lamps are in and Linkara is gonna review them!

@Regal99 5 жыл бұрын

Admittedly, Ito's "The Hanging Balloons" freaked me out a lot.

@crest2x4 5 жыл бұрын

Army of one with the stitched bodies made me feel it all on my face.

@chaosd1 3 жыл бұрын

Same. It's such an inherently goofy premise and visual but for some reason it awoke something in my subconscious to the point it invaded my nightmare the night after reading it. That is solid horror.

@TheDaimon888 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Linkera for making this story easier to go through. You rock as always.😊✔😁✨😊😊✔✔

@tannerprice2018 5 жыл бұрын

3:31 AAAAAAAAAAND I start geeking out after hearing the Unicron Medley over the title card.

@flyingfist4203 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was unsettling. Great review.

@AndrewBullXandrew 5 жыл бұрын

YES! Finally! Next week is gonna be Legend!

@mickeyd343 5 жыл бұрын

I know he's kidding since the next episode is on April 1st. But I'm wondering what he's gonna do.

@Heavenlyhounds96 5 жыл бұрын

How did you not use a Majora's Mask reference in this entire episode?!

@bluestar2059 5 жыл бұрын

I'm more impressed that he only had the *one* Technis Imperative reference. I was waiting for the "Let go of the frickin moon already" quote and it never came.

@PrincessAshley972 5 жыл бұрын

Heavenlyhounds96 he did, it was just subtle and you missed it

@TheSeptet 5 жыл бұрын

The only Zelda game he's ever played is Link's Awakening.

@misterpeterman 5 жыл бұрын

Nice use of the Unicron theme music, and bonus points for having Unicron himself on your shelf.

@adamkeiser5933 5 жыл бұрын

"Oh great, looks like they only discovered Galactus!" Would of been funny if that was the case. Or if it was Unicron they discovered.

@aaa1e2r3 5 жыл бұрын

That's right, next week's Monday will be April Fool's day

@thatonea-hole 5 жыл бұрын

*THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD!!!!*

@shmee123ful 5 жыл бұрын

Dammit linkara I just managed to forget the lady raisins where a thing. Well back to the bar for me

@docette2015 5 жыл бұрын

My eternal thanks to you and your Patron for not doing one of the major body horror comics from him. I had to give up on the Longbox of the Damned episodes featuring Uzumaki because they were just too disturbing. This is definitely horrifying, but it's not something GUARANTEED to give me nightmares. (Yes, even with the Lovecraftian hell-planet.) And the jokes help a lot too -- a touch of humor takes the sting out of any horror-themed property. Man, though, poor Remina! I'd love to know how she's going to get something resembling a happy ending out of this. . . *goes to Google a plot summary*

@kingfranpetty 5 жыл бұрын

*sees the thumbnail* I've seen enough hen ties to know where this is going! *headbuts the video play it* ... I didn't know where this was going.

@SharkAlien66 5 жыл бұрын

Fun review. I love reading Junji Ito's mangas.

@MeliesCinemagician 5 жыл бұрын

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

@Uthardar 5 жыл бұрын

MeliesCinemagician aww get swiffy!! Everybody Get Swifty!

@Bezaliel13 5 жыл бұрын

Junji Ito, a horror writer that actually how to perform lovecraftian!

@DalekTheSupreme 4 жыл бұрын

Gotta say, in a story about a monster bigger than the Earth devouring planets, the use of the Unicron Medley is brilliant.

@lostbengirl 5 жыл бұрын

I never thought I would giggle at Uranus again, but you presented it in a whole new way!

@earth9564 5 жыл бұрын

Hope to see more of his work in the future.

@charleshockenbury353 5 жыл бұрын

Cult of the Unwritten Book is at it again with the Eye of the Destroyer. Better go find a dog and ring a bell to summon the ReCreator.

@cuevagrafica 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but first we need a person with multiple personalities, each one with superpowers, working in an insane asylum and starting the Re-creator cult .......... ok Doom Patrol is weird

@cuevagrafica 5 жыл бұрын

@@BigK13372 I know right? Grant Morrison leadies and gentleman, maiking your mind feel like mash potatos..

@SerenityM16 5 жыл бұрын

“Lamp review” and I’m sure that next Monday being April Fools has nooooothing to do with this lol

@doubledamn2599 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Linkara, when is you next Contest of Champions match scheduled?

@sailoritaly 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making me not being able to sleep tonight!

@GabyGeorge1996 5 жыл бұрын

Wow...I can’t remember the last time I was this early to one of your videos

@Archon3960 3 жыл бұрын

The Unicron toy in the shelf is the perfect cherry on top of this tasty video. x)

@ZeddtheVHSotaku 5 жыл бұрын

03:30 IT'S UNICRON! GET TO THE SHIPS! Nice use of the Unicron theme.

@Sylphmoon 5 жыл бұрын

This story reminds me of the story of Komus, the Tyrant Star, from Warhammer 40k lore. It's pretty cool. Thank you for reviewing this, Linkara. I had no idea about this story despite having read a fair bit of Junji Ito. Will check it out.

@grantmoore8228 5 жыл бұрын

Ugh, Junji Ito is truely the Japanese Stephen King because he's determined to make non scary things scary. I think the one that scared me the most was the giant balloon head story

@grantmoore8228 5 жыл бұрын

@@AlucardNoir hey now, at least Stephen King books have actual characters that contribute to the plot. Junji Ito's work is only scary because of the pacing and visuals

@urikostar7164 Жыл бұрын

I don't see what you were replying to, deleted comment I guess, but pacing and visuals are valid ways to make something scary, they aren't less so just because characters are more controlled by the story then story being controlled by the characters. It's just his writing style

@NickonPlanetRipple 5 жыл бұрын

Oh crap, it's finally here. I haven't even re-read this since covering it years ago... now I'm ashamed. It's a classic.

@lukevankleef4245 5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Lamp review!

@BellaFalk95 5 жыл бұрын

Are you going to continue on this manga? Even if the cosmic horror is good there are a couple of parts that are really confusing.

@EkoBahamut 4 жыл бұрын

I was hoping he got to the part when the Planet Remina makes Earth Spin at super speed and everyone starts flying XD

@S_Echocaster 5 жыл бұрын

Hold up...there were only the red, orange and yellow lantern rings on his shelf. Tie in to Mirrorkara or just couldn't fit them all on there anymore. I'm curious.

@AT4W 5 жыл бұрын

Look on the other side of the shelves. =)

@S_Echocaster 5 жыл бұрын

@@AT4W well I feel silly.

@MultiBeerme 5 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for that lamp review!

@MrZerothejedi 5 жыл бұрын

So... Did you recently wake up screaming, and when Vega asked you what was wrong you said, "The lady raisins..." I want this to be real.

@ShyBiiteVT 5 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie. I was in a really depressed mood after getting off work. Then I watched this, and now I feel a bit better.

@gtsgreatteacherscathach5550 5 жыл бұрын

Lamp review huh, well it's April's Fools Day next week so let's see what's in store.

@juon91 5 жыл бұрын

after all this years, he will finally do proper lamp review!

@matthewclark5612 5 жыл бұрын

I hope you come back to this some day

@cdubbart 5 жыл бұрын

Man, I wish you coulda reviewed the whole thing, lol. Including the supplementary story on Planet Remina. And I kinda think the ending was the scariest thing of all.

@nirast2561 5 жыл бұрын

9:30 Good Lord, that's a good crazy laugh.

@austinharris9077 5 жыл бұрын

14:52 o.o That was just chapter 1 !?! Holy crap, man !

@WilliamGarland 5 жыл бұрын

That's cold man.

@MiscellaneousSoup 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve been meaning to learn more about manga.

@sonicseztrapsaregay4249 4 жыл бұрын

I got not only Majora’s Mask vibes from this manga but also Local 58 vibes.

@AceSpadeThePikachu 5 жыл бұрын

In that demon planet gets a movie or animated series, NOT having it be voiced by Kurt Russel would be a missed opportunity of the AGES. XD

@joserobertosolismerlin5527 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the main cultist

@AceSpadeThePikachu 5 жыл бұрын

It does make me wonder though...is "Ramina's World" actually just Ego the Living Planet's creepier, twisted twin sister? The manga DID say it came from another universe. Who's to saw it wasn't the Marvel Universe it came from? Heck, maybe it even came from the Marvel Zombies universe! XD

@richiem5112 5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, I picked up his Frankenstein manga the other day, and yea the Body Horror is something else. And no, you are not a fairy, I won't let you in.

@ArwingYoshi 5 жыл бұрын

The Unicron theme was a nice touch.

@sodabeat689 3 жыл бұрын

I think that describing uzumaki as a story about two girls battling eachother with their hair is the worst description anyone has ever given this masterpiece 😂

@bleakautomaton4808 2 жыл бұрын

Such a good manga

@cherry-cj9iq 2 жыл бұрын

HELLSTAR REMINA!!!!!! JUNJI ITO!!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH SO SO MUCH, AND I ADORE HELLSTAR REMINA! It's so…

@axl1178 2 жыл бұрын

Ghidorah: HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY! WHO SAID YOU COULD GO AND JUST OM-NOM THE WHOLE PLANET?!

@chaz9808 5 жыл бұрын

Wish they made this into an hbo show

@WhatIsNature 3 жыл бұрын

If Adult Swim's "Uzumaki" adaptation does as well as it looks in the teaser trailer, then Ito is gonna get a boost of popularity in the West, in which case we can probably expect more adaptations in the next 5-10 years. And if multiple animated adaptations do well, then we're bound for something live-action sooner or later. And it'll only be done justice if it's produced by a network as prestigious as HBO. I'm hoping that the 20's will be Ito's big introduction to the West, and it all kind of hinges on how well "Uzumaki" does. Because if it's good, then that's gonna be what puts Ito into the industry's consciousness. Who knows what we'll get from there on out.