Remina · review
Remina is cosmic horror in it's purist form. A Lovecraftian planet is here to devour our solar system. Not the planet, EVERYTHING! The art is beautiful, the perspective stunning and the sense of movement in the panels will cause you to flip the pages at the speed of light. It does have a flaw though. Unlike his other works there is a sense of hopelessness here. Remina is going to devour everything so no matter what the characters do or don't do it's sorta pointless. The manga does point your focus to the individuals, how fear turned correlation to causation leading to mass hysteria... but again from the veryfirst panel you are told this is all pointless.
I think this is the main issue I have with Remina, Junji often uses unstoppable cosmic horrors in his tales. Hell, Uzumaki is a prime example. There is always the illusion of escape, that dangling thread of hope though. Even if the characters don't make it that's fine. It's far more satisfying than an empty happy ending with no hope throughout the tale.
Even with that Remina is a tale you should read at least once. It's worth it.