“Journalist investigates teens' mysterious deaths linked to a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching.”
Ring Series
「リング」シリーズ
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Journalist investigates teens' mysterious deaths linked to a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching.
The body of a young girl is found at her home in Yokohama, contorted in fear, but the cause of her death is a mystery. Soon afterwards the bodies of three more teenagers are discovered - dead in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, journalist Asakawa becomes fixated on unravelling the cause of this bizzare sudden-death syndrome. He discoveres that the four victims had shared a log cabin for one night, exactly seven days before their deaths. In the cabin, Asakawa finds a nightmarish secret - a curious videotape which plays not a movie, but a strange collecrion of abstract, subliminal images, concluding with a portentous message: 'Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. If you do not wish to die, you must follow these instructions exactly...' Then the tape cuts to static. This slickly plotted page-turner reverberates with a terrifying supernatural twist. It inspired the cult Japanese movie and the US remake of the same name. (Source: Vertical Inc.)
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Running avg · Jul 2011 → Mar 2016
- 8 “While still being a pop-culture itemthis novel shows the big gap that exist between a LN and a regular novel. Just from this work come multiple movies and adaptations the skip big parts of the...”
- 9 “If you're not familiar with Ringu, the novel, you're almost certainly familiar with it's legacy. Spawning the cult film adaptation by Hideo Nakata, and its American remake, The Ring. Ringu...”
- 8 “Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for Loop (13586) and has subsequently been merged into Ring Series (13583). TL;DR Version: Not the most engaging book in the trilogy and a bit...”
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A Novel Publication
- Format 31 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 08m approx
- Published Jun 1991 – Sep 2013
- Source Novel media type
- Ref. BS-M8997 catalog