7/26/2023 0 Comments The enigma of amigara fault![]() ![]() Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It was never explicitly said the fault was actually supernatural.Anyone who finds their hole is then compelled to enter it. The holes were already there and each one is seemingly tailor-made to resemble a specific person. Oshida can't follow to rescue her because he's too big, and succumbs when he sees his hole. When he falls asleep, the compulsion takes her, and she removed all the stones to enter her hole. Then he stays with her in her tent, reassuring her You Are Not Alone. He finds heavy stones and uses them to fill her hole. Hope Spot: Owaki seems to come across a solution about the holes when Yoshida finds hers.People who reside around the fault also have dreams that hint at the fault's origins, as well as visions of the people that entered the holes. Genius Loci: The fault itself, or whatever roams around the fault, is implied to have some degree of sentience, as its holes are able to hypnotically draw their owners into them.Forcibly Formed Physique: The fate of the people ◊ who go through the tunnels.Fold-Spindle Mutilation: A rare case where the mutilation isn't fatal.Five-Second Foreshadowing: The other end of the hole is shown to be misshapen, which leads to the discovery of the severe Fold-Spindle Mutilation of the holes' victims.Fate Worse than Death: In Owaki's dream, he is a man from a primitive tribe condemned to a hole for an unforgivable crime.Owaki stripping to his underwear (or less, considering the fact that we only see him from the waist-up) would be fanservice if not for what will eventually happen to him. Fan Disservice: People usually undress in order to fit into the holes, and not all of these people are attractive.Eldritch Location: There is something seriously wrong with the fault and the holes running straight through it.Dreaming of Times Gone By: Everyone who has a hole carved for them.If he made it through all the way to the other side, while alive, it was not a pretty way to go. With a Thousand-Yard Stare, he enters, accepting the compulsion and inevitable fate. Downer Ending: Owaki sees his hole after Yoshida enters hers.Not helping is that Japan has some of the world's highest suicide rates. Does This Remind You of Anything?: One analysis video of the story compared the compulsion to enter the hole with suicide ideation.Daylight Horror: Most of the creepy stuff happens at daytime.Claustrophobia: The story's horror heavily draws off of this fear with its increasingly narrower holes.Catapult Nightmare: Owaki has one in which he is Nakagaki, some poor bastard who entered his hole.Body Horror: Put together human-shaped holes on one side of a mountain and squiggly-shaped holes on the other.And then there's what happens after you get to the other side. And I Must Scream: The walls are patterned so that you can only move forward.The story was originally printed as a bonus one-shot alongside his fish-zombie-apocalypse manga Gyo, and was reprinted in the short story collection Venus in the Blind Spot. So what happens when they enter the hole? Well, you can be sure that massive amounts of claustrophobia and Nightmare Fuel are involved. It soon becomes clear that the holes are "calling" to the people they are shaped like. An earthquake has created a huge fault in the mountain, and human-shaped holes are scattered across the face of the fault line. A boy named Owaki, and a girl, Yoshida, meet on Amigara Mountain, where an unsettling discovery has been made. From origins pertaining to alien creatures to demonic forces, a myriad of possibilities exists.A short horror manga story by Junji Ito. Ito allows the reader to wander through the dark corridors of their mind as they attempt to find a solution to this problem. Readers are left wondering if Owaki was simply dreaming or if this past society had a part in the foundation of these mysterious holes. While these tunnels might be the invention of an ancient civilization that used technology unknown to the modern world, it remains a mystery as to how and why they precisely match the bodies of people from the present. As he moves through the passage, his body becomes deformed to the point that any human being could not survive, yet he remains sentient and screaming in agony. As punishment for committing a heinous crime, he is sentenced to enter a chasm that appears to have been specifically created for him. In one scene, Owaki has a dream in which he is a criminal from an ancient past. The origin of the human-shaped holes is never fully explained. ![]()
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