Domu is a short little horror manga by Katsuhiro Otomohttps://anilist.co/staff/96872/KatsuhiroOtomo from 1981. Katsuhiro Otomo is the original creator of Akirahttps://anilist.co/manga/30664/Akira/ a series Ive been meaning to get to for a long time. But Domu came before Akira and the two seem drastically different going solely off of Akiras description. 440https://i.ur.com/uOzSemv.png The only version of this I could find online was probably a scan of the out of print English version so its left to right rather than right to left. The plot of this manga basically centers around an apartment building that has begun to suffer mysterious events. People just seem to keep dying. While some of these deaths seem to be suicidal in nature they just seem to keep happening. 440https://i.ur.com/sFQfYC2.png In truth it turns out that someone is actively causing these events. A twisted person yet who possesses a childlike mind and sees what theyre doing as nothing but a game that simultaneously possesses supernatural powers is manipulating these people into killing themselves. But everything changes when a little girl and her family moves there and the little girl possesses supernatural powers as well and almost immediately notices this twisted person right as theyre about to cause an infant to fall off a balcony wishing to see it burst on impact like a tomato. 440https://i.ur.com/Pr6KmEB.png From this moment on Domu just turns into an allout war between these two psychics. It is incredibly gory it is incredibly dark and it works as a horror in the sense that this horrible person with these supernatural powers is being genuinely terrifying to the people who he forces to push themselves into meeting grisly and usually violent ends. Admittedly there are points in the manga where to me it was kind of difficult to discern exactly what was happening given that the battle thats being waged is via supernatural mind powers but once it really started rolling into complete and utter chaos I was really really engaged. 440https://i.ur.com/wBZuYDn.png Additionally I can always appreciate it when in a story like this truly utterly nobody is safe from the carnage. I mean I guess the aforementioned baby was saved if you want to be technical but Im okay with that. Because when the antagonist takes over the mind of the drunk character and sends him off on his way armed with a cops gun he is basically gunning down whoever gets in his way as he stumbles on towards his true target. 440https://i.ur.com/IRJ0Cts.png So if youre in the mood for something dark something horrifically violent or just a supernatural psychic war sort of thing Domus pretty good Plus its like only six chapters long. Short and quick to the horrific violence point. I give it a 9 out of 10. Because apparently Im messed up in how much I enjoy horrific violence. 500https://i.ur.com/2MD1Oxt.png
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