500https://i.ur.com/5pc2sWx.png Seeds of Anxiety A collection of ultra short horror stories by Masaaki Nakayamahttps://anilist.co/staff/98581/MasaakiNakayama Fuan no Tane was... disappointing to say the least. Seventy two chapters and there were eleven stories that I thought were either maybe genuinely a bit creepy or amusing in a horror way. But the majority of Fuan no Tane is just... usually dialogue and then the last page shows you the spooky face or the spooky monster. Theres rarely ever any purpose or meaning for it either. Its not like somebody died and like thats their ghost tormenting the people in the chapters... no its usually just an outright random spooky face. 440https://i.ur.com/BgAvOok.png As several chapters really are just two pages long theres just not enough time to even try to put a story or anything resembling atmosphere. I think I really do have no better way to describe this as a manga version of Yami Shibaihttps://anilist.co/anime/19383. Its just like a clipshow of a bunch of creepy faces. Maybe some of them will get you to say oh that looks creepy but beyond that theres really... nothing deeper to latch onto. As a matter of fact if it werent for like those eleven stories Id maybe go as far to say this borderline bottom of the barrel. Like theres just one chapter that starts with like the giant shadow of a guy but then the rest of the story is just talking about a warning sign. 440https://i.ur.com/31xwhwP.png I mean if this sign were meant to warn people of spooky ghost activity then I would think something more than an exclamation point would be needed Like... what a terrible fucking warning sign Unless... unless maybe the WARNING SIGN ITSELF IS THE GHOST. Joking aside I get that the point of the manga is more about like trying to get the reader to feel anxious. Like the stories are split into different categories and the stories are usually very general. Along the lines of have you ever seen weird out of the corner of your eye??? Maybe its ghosts but its just... a lot of it is just lame. 440https://i.ur.com/yRYe1QZ.png Really in my opinion what little fun stuff there is in this manga lie more in the weirder stuff. Its not just a stupid spooky horror face its genuinely something weird and its not even ever necessarily found out by anyone. Or just outright ignored. Like I think my favorite story of Fuan no Tane is the one about an entire hospitals staff outright ignoring the spirit of a baby because its an ugly baby with a crazy horror mouth but all its doing is asking is to be hugged and paid attention to. 440https://i.ur.com/Yuy2i5E.png Like thats actually genuinely kind of disturbing. And also sad. I guess yeah the argument can be made that its actually evil and its lying but what if it really is just the spirit of a deceased baby and this entire hospitals nursing staff has just outright agreed to completely ignore it? Given that the punch of the majority of this mangas stories is woah thats a spooky face Im probably just putting too much thought into it though... I feel like I should also clarify that its not so much that its overly reliant on the creepy/spooky faces method of horror but that the faces arent even that good half of the time. 440https://i.ur.com/qAv1JD1.png Like one of the only chapters like that which honestly kind of worked for me was like a guy goes to clean up the apartment his brother used to live in and he sees like attached to the ceiling like a bit of cut rope like a noose. He ends up going to sleep in the apartment after a bit of cleaning and what happens? 440https://i.ur.com/nlt3zjF.png Whoops I guess I shouldnt have slept directly underneath where someone hung themselves Like the idea of waking up to the ghost of someone who hung himself directly over you is indeed creepy. This manga could have used way more of that than oh my god there is a fucking ghost looking into my window at me oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD 440https://i.ur.com/Pjc6f4H.png No sorry. It wasnt a ghost. I was just seeing shit out of the corner of my eye. Oh yeah and it also really doesnt help that 90 of the time it also ends directly after youre shown the spooky face. Rarely ever get to see the characters reactions or them just saying oh hello to the horror faces. Again its the manga version of Yami Shibai... To conclude Im going to do something I dont do for most of the other things I review and include the numbers of the chapters that I think are genuinely worth reading more than any of the utterly generic spooky ones. 440https://i.ur.com/QVtOb6w.png If the collection was of just these stories rather than the full 72 Id probably give it a way higher score but I guess you cant release like a three volume manga of just like eleven five page long stories. 14 16 24 b2 b7 b10 b14 b18 8 17 20 ...Id give the entire collection probably a 4.5 out of 10 or 45 out of 100 though. Its competent its a quick read but theres no real substance and Ive already forgotten eighty percent of the stories so... Nah. If you want creepy faces sure but deep or lasting horror? Nah. 500https://i.ur.com/e7mCnnL.png