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“Satoshi Kon's four-story manga collection, including World Apartment Horror and Visitors, blending horror and surrealism.”
World Apartment Horror
ワールドアパートメントホラー
6.46
18,400 rank · 3,661 readers · 9 favorites
Seinen
Mythology
Samurai
Action
Comedy
Horror
Mystery
Slice of Life
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Satoshi Kon's four-story manga collection, including World Apartment Horror and Visitors, blending horror and surrealism.
Collection of four stories by Satoshi Kon: -World Apartment Horror Manga adaptation of Otomo's self-directed live-action film of the same name. A bumbling Yakuza member is sent to rid an old and rotten apartment block of its foreign occupants, but finds it a lot harder than expected when he discovers an evil spirit still resides there. -Visitors -Waira -Joyful Bell
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What 2 readers settled on.
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Score distribution
median 5.5
mode 5
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Running avg · May 2020 → Aug 2022
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 5 “The art style maintains a familiar aesthetic consistent with Satoshi's other works like *Kaikisen*. However, the stories are uninteresting, cliché, and lack the necessary substance or background to...”
- 6 “Satoshi Kon is an excellent creator, and "Visitors" serves as an interesting, enjoyable short read. However, the work feels incomplete, and "Joyful Bell" lacks sufficient substance to form a...”
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Short · 100%
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Read Order & Related
A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — World Apartment Horror begins and ends here.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 4 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 32m approx
- Published Jan 1991 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M12023 catalog