The Death-Stench World

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>>279621205

Time to GASHUNK

Time to FSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>279644624
damn

Done. Romantic to the end.
So, what did you think? Did you like it? Does it stand up well compared to the rest of Ito's works? Any specific thoughts?
Next time we start another series: Mimi's Tales of Terror
By the way, tomorrow's thread might be either extremely early or extremely late. See you tomorrow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWoZ3Gg29w

>>279644631
So in the end it was the greatest love story ever told, huh?
Fun comedy manga, thanks OP.

>>279644513
>that fucking eye

>>279644530
Ah shit, I never noticed when I first read it but she did get tubed. What a cruel fate.

>>279644530
she got it in the ass too

>>279644575
that's one hell of a spread

>>279644631
what a bizarre manga. bizarre even for ito.

>>279644631
I wonder what the other floating things are

I...uhh...never read this series. I just popped in randomly. What the fuck is going on?

>>279644631
Thanks for Gyo OP. The worst of the multi-chapter stories so far for sure, but the initial idea is fun and it has some strengths. You can really see Ito running out stuff to do with it later on though. Excited to read whatever comes next

>>279644766
>>279644778
Reminder, that like everything else, that's Kaori's fault

>>279644885
well it all started back during world war 2

>>279644612
Oh no!
Anyway

>>279644575
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXVtpOHQqvY

>>279644885
sit down and drink your coffee.

>>279644624
>You're finally free from the smell.
Want some coffee?

>>279644994

>>279644885
>What the fuck is going on?
I'm not even sure I know, myself.

>>279644539
>they thought they could outgun mad science

This is what happened the one time Tomie brapped.

>>279644563
He's given up on even trying to make sense of anything

>>279644601
The nerds are here to save the day

>>279644994
TADASHI I ASKED FOR GWEEN TEA
ONOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>279644612
>>279644624
So, how do they match up to Kirie and Shuichi?

>>279644592
I believe more that it came from another world like the circus guy said.
the circus guy seemed to know more about the gas and he was literally working with the gas.
He and his circus were hunting the uncle's machines along with the infected in the machines and infected that weren't in the machines even throwing infected into the cannon.

I suspect that Tadashi's grandfather ended up bringing the gas from another world with his experiments and that it was released and merged with nature when the ship sank.

>>279644631
Thanks OP
This was one of the only Ito stories I read before this dump, and I'm not sure if it was the worst or best way to try get into him. It's incredibly, uniquely 'Ito', but it also isn't all that great for much of it, if you ask me
I don't dislike it though

>>279645163
Are you serious?

where's my nigga mo?

what the FUCK did we learn

>>279644778
This is the closest thing mad scientists have to sex, she's happy

>>279645183

>>279644631
I think Ito isn't that good at making shorter serialized chapters without abusing cliffhangers

>>279644631
That's it? That's how it ends?

>>279645212
Don't do evil war experiments.

>>279644858
The heads, they were inflated with gas all along

>>279644885
Ito doesn't know either

>>279644592
>>279645183
I'm going to sound like hack anon here, but I like that the gas is never truly explained. that final scene of tadashi on the embankment overlooking the city covered in mist really activates my almonds.

>>279645183
I think it's exactly like the story said. War scientists tried to invent some new bacterial weapon and ended up synthesizing a germ powered by the souls of the dead, which then slowly built their "conquer the living world" kind of plot by using the machines+fishes and later on the humans+fishes.
The "stench of dead" isn't just how a rotten corpse smells but literally the stench of the living dead (ghosts).

>>279644631
It's shit. Too drawn out and a nothing ending.

>>279644994
Those nerds need some way to stay up late experimenting
Tadashi's coffee will save the earth

>>279645210
Taken by the spiral

>>279644592
>i don't need to explain shit if I lampshade it in text

>>279645210
Tubed. Sorry.

>>279645212
Gas is evil
Fish are evil
War is evil
Never trust a scientist

The only thing I dislike is the assistant's fate, she didn't deserve that bad of an ending.

>>279644612
It would have been better if he had simply let her kill herself here. Stopping her from killing herself only made things worse.
Maybe her body would still go to some machine even after she was dead though.

>>279645210
LOOK OUT SHE'S GOING TO BURST

>>279645383
horror mangaka, anon

>>279645288
Yeah, but the souls of the dead could in a way be coming from the world of the dead, so it would be otherworldly in that sense.

>>279644631
Fuck you op!

>>279645411
Well, technically if he let her kill herself he would probably cremate her body.

>>279644631
i think the ending is actually pretty good. like many of ito's longer works it has a slight dash of hope. there are immune people trying to find a possible cure, yeah, but the ending is for kaori. her plight is over, she's free from the smell and tadashi got his own closure.
realistically it's hopeless, but the story makes sense to end here, his arc is over and i don't know how interesting it would actually be to watch a bunch of nerds "fight" the infection

>>279645484
Oh yeah, absolutely, like that hotspring inn episode.

>>279644631
I liked It.
>If I had extended the story, I would have been able to flesh it out further… but I exhausted my energy on it.
I wish Ito had more energy and could have extended the story.

>>279645416
>the Ito storytime gave anons a Mo inflation fetish

>>279645679
Oh, you're right.
https://grapeejapan.com/116016

>Ben K: Now, I’d like to ask you about “Gyo.” Ultimately, the creatures seem to take over Japan and I feel it’s implied that they will eventually take over the world. But in the beginning, they were born out of chemical weapons experiments. Considering these origins, was there an anti-war message in depicting monsters like this?

>Ito: When I was a child, my parents, who were of the war generation, would tell me tragic and frightening war stories, so I naturally developed a strong awareness of war as a scary thing. What’s more, as a boy, I was afraid I would be drafted as a soldier when I grew up. This fear of mine naturally developed into anti-war feelings, and I think this is reflected in my work.

>Ben K: “Gyo” is quite a remarkable work with many fans. The fusion of organic and inorganic, and an uncanny sense of agency as well…

>Ito: I wanted to tell the story so that the mastermind behind the phenomenon would remain a mystery… It was quite a while ago, so I can’t remember it too well now, but one of the characters gives it away at the end. If I had extended the story, I would have been able to flesh it out further… but I exhausted my energy on it.

>>279645691
gyo and fetish shouldn't be in the same sentence

>>279645556
Tadashi's grandfather even gave the idea of making those walking machines to the gas/spirits or they simply evolved that way because of how he used them.

>>279645982
Plot twist, it was the gas that gave Tadashi's grandfather the idea and manipulated him into doing it.

>>279645975
Well we already had that one anon who jerked off to the Uzumaki snail chapter

>>279644631
I can't think of a horror story where the victims' dignity is so thoroughly violated more than this one, which makes it stand out in its own perverse way
I just wish the assistant lady made it out...

>>279646136
>I can't think of a horror story where the victims' dignity is so thoroughly violated more than this one
I'm sure there must be some, but I definitely don't want to know about them.

>>279646173
Ever heard about the one that gets turned into a human walrus?

>>279644453
>>279644460
She's done for, bro. At this point, the complete destruction of her carcass and the machine puppeting it can only be considered a mercy.

>>279646233
ugh
yeah...

>>279646294
Well, thats one that definitely got violated even more.

>>279644530
Oh no. She's tubed.

>>279644766
She got what she deserved for trying to be a filthy homewrecker.

>>279644539
Lost

>>279644550
I guess it's gas-propelled, if it's taking off at that speed. Question is why he didn't start out with that. Only thing I can think of is that the balloon form requires less fuel to move?

>>279646438
I mean he didn't add the second set of tubes for fun

>>279645975
shortened: gyotish

>>279644539
>>279644530
>>279644550
Uncle planned for everything. Not sure why circus is using infected people as literal cannon fodder, though.

>>279644592
Where did these dudes come from? Their theory is interesting, but I'm not sure if its correct.

>>279644453
Cow is upset.

>>279644460
I feel like if he took her hand and tried to pull her out, the skin would just come off at this point.

>>279644631
This is the second time I read Gyo and I'm still not sure how to feel about it. It's probably his weirdest story (so far).

Looking forward to Mimi's adventures, I recall them being fun and spooky.

>>279644631
I think Uzumaki is Ito's "best" long-form story in terms of what you generally expect from a horror story, but I unironically think Gyo is best in terms of best exemplifying what sets him apart as a storyteller. It's weird and disturbing and existentially unsettling and starkly absurd, and it's all of those things cranked up to 11. Peak Ito.

>>279646626
I think they are partially on the right track, but they haven't accounted for the supernatural element of the gas (ie. the ghosts we see.)

>>279644624
F

>>279644575
The armies of hell.

>>279646626
Kyoto University

>>279644885
>>279645115
Ito and everyone who read it have no idea either.
>>279645210
Where Tomie fears to look.
>>279645212
Mad scientists have no sense of right or wrong.
>>279645411
I like how Kaori was more concerned with the smell than the sores and weight gain.

>>279644631
I appreciate that he didn't draw me in with genuine creepiness before going full-on silly like he did with Uzumaki. You had just the few chapters where they're being creeped out by the smell, and then it was straight into cheesy B-movie shenanigans.

>>279645212
Avoid sharp metal objects

>>279644631
Thanks OP. Somehow that ending was a little hopeful.

>>279646544
gyoatse

>>279644493
kek 100% the one in front is the ringmaster, rip bozo

>>279644631
I'm glad Tadashi has some buddies now and isn't alone. There's also a tiny spark of hope that they can turn things around. That was something else for sure. I enjoyed it a lot but I wouldn't say it's my favorite Ito story or even close. Thanks for posting it, OP.

>>279646986
Good eye

>>279644530
well at least anons should be happy we didn't get a close up of her face

>>279647027
Doesn't look like she's bloated yet, maybe Uncle's method helps keep such things at bay

>>279645163
I like Tadashi but neither him or Kaori are anywhere close to being on the same level as those two.

>>279644493
>>279644501
>>279644513
World war Brap
>>279646986
Never noticed that, good one

>>279646136
That one with the weird aliens that made people into poop cubes and a whole bunch of other stuff.

>>279644530
TUBED
>>279644539
this fucking guy, lmao

>>279644631
What are those things floating in the sky? One looks like it's Uncle and his assistant having the time of their lives but what about the others?

>>279644631
Thanks anon a lot for the threads. This read wasn't as bad my first one which i did on a single setting while terribly hangover, but i still registered a substantial uptick in nightmares lol.
These threads have become a weirdly comfy nightly routine anyhow so I'm looking forward to seeing moar.

So, does Uncle's actions and capabilities make him a member or an enemy of the Paranormal Patrol?

>>279644530
>>279644539
>>279644550
Comedy mangaka.

>>279644612
>missing the front teeth to leave room for the tubes
what a grim detail

>>279644530
Man, that's awful. She wasn't sick or bloated when she got tubed. He killed her doing that.

>>279647179
He's an enemy of all mankind for the stunts he pulled.

>>279647179
Uncle is a force of scientific chaos, neither good or evil.

>>279644539
What the actual fuck!?

>>279644631
Thanks OP, this is probably the best B horror movie experience on printed media. You know the story is ridiculous and shoddily assembled as a vehicle for the spectacle. But by god what a spectacle it was!

>>279644631
Thanks OP
>So, what did you think?
It was very strange
>Did you like it?
I liked the machines
>Does it stand up well compared to the rest of Ito's works?
Huge tubes in the anus stop it from that
>Any specific thoughts?
I wonder how far inland they can go

>>279644885
>>Fear of fish
>>Global pandemic
>>Body horror
>>Mad science!
>>Haunted farts
>>Circus and sideshow of freaks
>>March of monstrosities
A lot of classic horror movie elements rolled into one, but oddly, inexplicably satisfying

>>279645212
Farting is evil

>>279645728
>I don't think I'm very good at long stories, so I don't have any which I'm personally satisfied with. Short stories are easier to write well, and I’m happy with those three.

The hack himself admits it! He should've ended the story early so we could imagine the brapocalypse!

>>279644631
Thanks, anonsito.

The Uncle being this whacky made it worth it.

>>279645210
Mokchak

>>279644631
This is one of my favorite Ito endings. It's just very quiet and calm. Gyo is a wonderful manga and so deliciously Ito. >>279646811 pretty much ahs it down pat.

Uncle's pose when Kaori's movement is being demonstrated was my favorite part.

>>279645728
>When I was very small, maybe 4 or 5 years old, my two older sisters would read Kazuo Umezu and Shinichi Koga in magazines and I read them too. That was my first experience. I was hooked. I began reading horror manga after that.
Eko Eko Azarak bros!

>>279647832
Frankly judging by that pose he is using his Brap Flight Machine to reach Morioh.

>>279644631
where are the bonus stories saaar

>>279648266
OP already dumped them

>>279648266
Here
>>279060553
>>278285432

>>279644631
Back then I read Gyo blindly and I didn't really enjoy it much. But reading it again with anons made me appreciate its weirdness more.

>>279644631
Thanks for the story, op.
That being said, I didn't like the theme, the humor, or the characters. Too weird, unfunny, and not horrifying. Only the first few chapters are worth it, and not even that much.
The only good thing is that the chapters are very short, so don't waste your time on this.
Ito's weakest long story so far.

>>279644631
I've never cared for it, even the funny bits
But thanks anyway anon

>>279645383
>Helps the uncle in turning someone into a walker
>Gets turned into one herself by the same guy

>>279644539
>>This isn't even my final form!

>>279644631
>Entirely missed this dump
I loved the movie, not lying. I'm sure this version is great. The ending seems several times less dire, I kinda like it.

>>279644631
This manga was bizarre, but I liked it
Thanks anon

>>279649848
How does the movie end?

>>279650332
As I remember, the girl from the start gets away with survivors on a boat. There's a sequence where it shows that everywhere around the world got infected with the virus. Showing landmarks filled with those gas machines marching. A direct (but eventual) consequence of the doctor (who is shot down from that blimp in this version I believe) escaping with his flying machine. Just kinda ends with a still of the boat off the coast of Tokyo with gas skulls across. I've had several dreams about the situation so anything else I could say is probably to be confused with a dream I once had.

>>279646591
They're volunteers, even the guy throwing them is infected now, I think the gas is capable of causing mental influence in some other people too otherwise it doesn't make sense for the circus, the infected and even the farting zombies to be working together like this.
Maybe the mental influence of the gas affected the uncle too, maybe that's what made Tadashi's grandfather create the walking machines in the first place.

>>279647134
IDK, but they look like other balloons, like the one the uncle made to transport him and his assistant.
This makes me even more suspicious that this >>279651177 is the case and to think that perhaps the gas influenced other people to also do the same as the uncle did.

>>279644612
:_:
>>279644631
I didn't like it at first, but around chapter 8 it started to feel more like an Ito story, and I liked it a lot by the end.
Did we ever find out why the first fish seemed to love/hate Kaori so much???

>One of Ito's dumbest protagonists
>Ended up with a cute, underage wife
Lucky bastard

>>279644631
Somehow I remembered the last panel has a clearer vision without fog
I must be remember it wrongly

>>279651177
They mention the girl's machine didn't seem to move alongside the will of the gas unlike the others in the circus, and here we got the other ones outright attacking her.

It seems like whatever the uncle is doing with his gas machines it's not actually pleasing its will.

>>279644530
I don't understand why the infected attack the uncle and Kaori, but seem to largely ignore people who are immune. The gas is what ties them all together, why would it matter if they have different walking machines. In the circus they even seemed to appreciate that in a weird way

>>279652876
I mean, it could be a natural influence of the gas whereas with the others they're more in sync with it or something.

The last page in the OP shows that there seem to be several balloons in the air that I didn't even mention here >>279651548

>>279646737
guaranteed

>>279644530
BANZAI!

>>279644539
Fucking uncle

>>279644592
I did always find it kind of neat how they're "natural" machines without any screws in them

>>279644601
Even if they find a counter for the gas only God knows how many ecosystems it has already destroyed

>>279653094
I don't think there is any deep reason for the circus guys attacking uncle
They could be trying to bring him down to replace Kaori or just be doing it for a giggle
The machines do seem to make a difference in how they act and how they're perceived, as even the ringmaster noted that it didn't follow the same rhythm as the other machines
My interpretation is that in the same way the scientists suggested that the machine is a product of the gas's bacteria, they behave sort of like animals and felt threatened by what they perceived as a member of a different, possibly stronger, species and as such decided to kill it

>>279646986
That does look like him, but how long has it been since Tadashi left the circus? Like several hours? He sure bloated up quickly

>>279644631
And everything is fucked beyond belief, thats kind of a sour note, but at least she can't smell it anymore.
>>279646306
I remember a dumb horror movie about a haunted house were one of the goth chicks got possessed, had mindless sex with one of the side victims repeating a silly phrase while possessed and was left forgotten in the bedroom after that scene completely forgotten for the entirety of the movie, by end of the flick we see her in the same bedroom just repeating the same phase over and over before the credits roll.
It just seemed as if the director had it in for the character, or this was the writers barely disguised fetish.
Not sure if it beats the walrus, but it always stuck to me how pointless her character was outside of the sex scene.

Can't fucking remember the name of the movie but it stuck with me how gratuitous and cruel it all seemed.

>>279652876
maybe they didn't like the off button

>>279654208
But how did the machines burn Kaori?
That seems like something that would need human help.

>>279654340
there is at least one guy from circus still around operating the cannon, and they also used gasoline for fire breathing

>>279654340
Maybe the circus guys decided to get revenge for her attacking them?

I hated it the first time I read it, but now I sort of enjoy it.
Except for the ending. I really liked the ending even from the first time I read it. it's at the same time hopeful yet hopeless. There's just some kind of serene sadness on those last few pages.

>>279644631
Thanks for the storytime, OP, you da MVP.
It's always good to reread some ito.

>>279654381
But that would require the machines to take her to them, which implies that they are working together.

>>279654443
I mean they are working together. The circus as a whole was literally that, and the walkers in general do coordinated attacks and stuff. the cannon is also dragged by walkers but still has a guy around that is fireing it

My personal theory is that Kaori is just special. She was very sensitive to the gas, and could smell it from very far aways while it was still sealed in a plastic bag. The dead fish targeted her from the very beginning. And she could move her body after having already died and in a state of decay. She's unlike any other character in the series.

>>279654549
The sharks also bite despite being dead and decaying

>>279654322
>over and over before the credits roll.
I don't know why but that type of ending always gets me. Loose end characters getting the final scene of them still being screwed or just to die. It's the entire reason I even remember "Feast" and its sequels, apart from the monster face rape scene.

>>279654549
Well, her manifesting as a fart spirit to Tadashi may have been her own will, that may have been when she died and maybe that protected him from getting infected who knows.

>>279654712
If you pay attention, it happened right when he was in that hole and that should have been when the doctor was putting her in the machine or had just put her in it.

>>279654579
Hmmm. True.
But I don't think that's the same thing. The sharks are moved by the "will" of the gas. While Kaori's movements were from herself. She streched her hand to try to touch Tadashi, and I don't think that's the gas alone doing that.

>>279646136
Humiliation-centric body horror isn't very common, now that I think about it. Not common enough to easily remember one off the top of my head, at least.
I think fart element and the fact that Kaori explicitly has an incredibly sensitive nose probably still put this above any that I might be able to think of.
We joke about Ito being a comedy mangaka, but the fact that Kaori's fate has comedic elements like her fat bloated being paraded around town naked on a machine powered by her own farts just makes her fate even more tragic.

>>279654775
Well, the uncle seemed genuinely furious and after thay specific assistant to put in his machine along with himself, so maybe his machine allows you to preserve some will.

>>279654775
>>279654980
Maybe he even used hers as a test to make his better.

>>279654674
That's the other movie I thought about in just not giving it's characters any respect, the elderly lady deserved to live after hiding.
I actually forgot about the face rape scene, the baby throwing of the second movie just blocked it with how stupid it was.

>>279655080
>Entirely forgot about that scene
Holy shit lmao, thanks for the reminder.

>>279644631
Thanks OP. Gyo is a fantastic work. Incredibly disturbing on a physical level, with a schlocky B-horror romance running all the way through it. I think the couple redeem themselves fantastically by the end, though. They're not consistently likeable from the start, like Shuichi and Kirie - it's not a tragedy as you watch them unable to avoid the inevitable. Honestly, it's a love story. It's two people growing closer through adversity, or maybe revealing how much they really mean to one another. At the start you hate them and think they're insane, and by the end you can't help but think, God, it's over for them, it's been over from the start, but damn it all if they aren't still going. Those crazy kids in love.

I think the art's fantastic. The machines and the omnipresent blue gas. Mechanical horror isn't something you see too often. It's so unique, especially to combine it with raw gross-out horror content like rotting and farts. The rotting fish on mechanical legs is a quintessential image, just absurdly confusing, and then it goes down the rabbit hole and you really see what he was going for.

Right at the end, when you have the machines split into two different factions, with the professor and kaori on one and the Death Stench on the other, I think it's a flawless coup de grace. The premise was confusing from start to finish, and in the end, humanity just got fucking left behind. It turns into this incomprehensible alien struggle. There were SIDES all along. The sense of scale is incredible. It elevates the Death Stench to an eldritch level - it becomes too big for humans to even comprehend. You either get absorbed into it, transformed into some strange enemy for it, or watch from the sidelines as it ruins your world for unknown reasons - just to continue existing, maybe.

Great manga. I don't think it needed anything else, honestly, I think the suddenness with which it ends and the unanswered questions perfectly fit the tone.

I remember that the ringmaster mentioned that the gas will still be alive when all the humans and animals are gone.

>>279655259
Well, that makes sense considering that gas is powered by ghosts. IDK if the gas even had someone to take over when it was developing the machines.

>>279655259
At the end of the day the corpses will be too decomposed to move the machines, then the Earth will be just an empty fart ball in space

>>279644592
>nanomachine fart ghosts
We Outlast now.

How strange, I could swear that there was a panel with one of the soldiers in gas masks sitting down infected and emitting gas through a crack in the visor, but he never showed up.

>>279651177
Circus freaks are definitely just slaves of the gas but it seems like Uncle managed to rebel in his own way, considering how it keeps trying to destroy his stuff

>>279644631
you think he stuck his weewee inside her for old time's sake?

>>279644631
What was the moral of the story?

>>279647862
all dailies are connected...

>>279644631
For me it was the infected that got trapped on their back. It's strangely erotic.

>>279657774
Cum is smelly anon, Kaori would never have sex with anyone

>>279658133
>What was the moral of the story?
If in doubt pour dried milk powder on Koari

>>279645383
I choose to cope and believe she was one of the immune ones herself
So she's safe from being turned into one of those things, and would just die instead

>>279644493
That hammer dude's got some real job security

>>279644631
Past a certain point it really was just him wandering back forth to look at more fucked up things happening

>>279644631
Deathstar Remina is better as a long-running series but Gyo is still a classic.

What does she have in store for us tomorrow?

>>279661377
Wrong daily anon

>>279661396
Not at all
She'll be terrifying us in just a few hours

>>279645383
Almost the whole world has received such endings, even babies, cats, dogs and so on. Do you think babies deserved to have such an ending?
At least she actually worked on immoral experiments with the uncle, unlike babies who didn't actually do anything.

>>279647291
Oh, I didn't notice that. The uncle is something else.

>>279661435
Why not right now?
>>279662886
>>279662886
>>279662886