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“Sou, a boy who dreams future horrors, links five scary tales across six books.”
Kami no Hidarite Akuma no Migite
神の左手悪魔の右手
7.28
5,491 rank · 5,471 readers · 41 favorites
Seinen
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Sou, a boy who dreams future horrors, links five scary tales across six books.
The 6 books contains 5 horror stories related to a primary school kid named Sou. Sou has an ability to foresee supernatural events in his dream and even make changes that would eventually happen in the reality. The 5 stories are the Eroded Scissors, the Disappeared Rubber, the Tongue of the Spider Queen, the Black Picture-book and Shadow Dead. All of the scary stories are linked by his unique experience. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 10
σ 2.87
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.87 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.50
Running avg · Mar 2012 → Aug 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “If you're a fan of horror, this is a must read. I'm not going to try to spoil the experience or anything of that sort, but this manga made me truly afraid and had my heart racing every second. Some...”
- 7 “(I've 4 of 5 stories so far) I've been trying to find some old mangas recently and other than drifting classroom, this is the only other manga of Kazuo Umezu that I have read so far. Its good in...”
- 10 “truly a classic of horror - umezu really hit a home run with this piece of twisted dreamery - reading this is like being stuck in one of those really bad fever (or dope-sick) half-dreams which are...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 25%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 77 × 6 ch × vol
- Total read 10h 16m approx
- Published Jan 1986 – Jan 1989
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M8231 catalog