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“Eight eerie horror tales: cursed futons, wooden spirits, red turtlenecks, gentle farewells, dissections, blackbirds, and whispering women.”
Fragments of Horror
魔の断片
7.54
2,986 rank · 24,616 readers · 307 favorites
Shoujo
Horror
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Synopsis
Eight eerie horror tales: cursed futons, wooden spirits, red turtlenecks, gentle farewells, dissections, blackbirds, and whispering women.
1. Futon 2. Mokuzou no Kai (Wooden Spirit) 3. Tomio: Akai High-neck (Tomio・Red Turtleneck) 4. Yuruyaka na Wakare (Gentle Goodbye) 5. Kaibou-chan (Dissection-chan) 6. Kuroi Tori (Blackbird) 7. Nanakuse Magami (Magami Nanakuse) 8. Mimikosuri suru Onna (Whispering Woman)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 13 sampled reviews
7.2
/10
What 13 readers settled on.
92%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.51
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.51 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↓ 0.85
Running avg · Sep 2016 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “This is the second manga by Junji Ito that I've read, the first one being Uzumaki. This is actually a collection of eight short stories, each being an anthology. The stories in this one are quite...”
- 7 “The shorts found here can be pretty hit or miss, when they hit, they hit hard but unfortunately they can also miss hard. As the title suggests "Fragments of horror" are short horror stories that...”
- 8 “Story 7/10 Ma no Kakera has stand-alone chapters, with pretty simplistic stories, so don't expect something which will blow you away. Despite that lack of complexity, I didn't find most of the...”
Verbosity
Short · 38%
Medium · 15%
Long · 46%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 8 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 04m approx
- Published Apr 2013 – Apr 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M22152 catalog