Showing posts with label Minetaro Mochizuki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minetaro Mochizuki. Show all posts

Saturday, March 01, 2025

Hauntress, the Manga

She looks a lot like Sadako, had the ghostly figure of The Ring matured into her early twenties. She acts that way too. If she rings your doorbell, do not answer. Unfortunately, Hiroshi makes exactly that mistake in Minetaro Mochizuki’s Hauntress, a fan-favorite horror manga that just had its English-translation debut.

She is unusually tall and her hair largely masks her face. Any horror fan can tell she is really bad news, but Hiroshi opens his door anyway. Supposedly, she was looking for his next-door neighbor, Yamamoto (whom he suspiciously hasn’t seen for quite a while), but she is making such a racket, he pops his head out to complain.

Ill-advisedly, he lets her in to use his phone. Conveniently, she leaves her bag behind as an excuse to constantly call Hiroshi on campus. Pretty soon, she ramps back up to full stalker mood, but with her focus shifted from Yamamoto to Hiroshi. He makes some incredibly bad decisions in the way he tries to handle her. As her threatening behavior escalates, Hiroshi calls his friend Satake for back-up and moral support. Something about her reminds his friend of the girl they once bullied in elementary school.