Gannibal

A manga about a police officer who gets stationed at a remote village in the country where the residents might all be cannibals.

We’ve discussed this on a recent episode.

Good horror manga. Masaaki Ninomiya has a realistic art style that works well with horror. I noticed that he would have panels with closeups of peoples’ mouths and teeth. It all added to the suspicion the cop has for the townsfolk when he finds bite marks on a corpse in the woods. The residents themselves seem to be on edge and slyly imply that he should mind his own business or he might meet the fate of his predecessor who went mad and died. The fact that he’s moved here with his family and young daughter make matters oh so much worse.

Horror stories with fantastical monsters usually don’t get to me but this manga made me sweat. While crazy cannibals are a common troupe of horror they’re way more scary because it seems like a remote possibility. Humans can be cruel and this series effectively captures that fear.

~dakazu