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“Six eerie, interconnected tales exploring human darkness, isolation, and the uncanny in everyday life.”
Mimi's Tales of Terror
ミミの怪談
7.25
5,934 rank · 13,999 readers · 85 favorites
Horror
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Synopsis
Six eerie, interconnected tales exploring human darkness, isolation, and the uncanny in everyday life.
1. The Woman Next Door 2. Sound of Grass 3. Graveman 4. The Seashore 5. Just the Two of Us 6. The Scarlet Circle
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
5.8
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 4
σ 1.46
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.46 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 0.17
Running avg · Nov 2010 → Nov 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Spooky!!⚰️ This year I started to read Junji Ito's Mangas, but Mimi caught me. I think this is the best manga ahead Uzumaki or Soichi *my favorites before Mimi* I really really recommend this...”
- 7 “Mimi's Ghost stories was, in effect, my first Junji Itou... which I read 15 - 18 years back! I obviously didn't know who he was at the time. Now almost 2 decades later, and I still remember some of...”
- 4 “I don't know why I read this Manga again... This was the first manga I read of the master of Horror Junji Ito, coincidentally this being one of the weakest mangas he has ever done. I'm only logging...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9141 catalog