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Gyo (Manga)
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Gyo is a Seinen horror manga by Junji Ito, also known for creating Uzumaki and The Enigma of Amigara Fault (which, incidentally, is an extra story in the back of the second volume). It ran from 2001 to 2002.During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army commissioned a secret experiment to create biological weapons. The end result - a deadly bacteria that infected corpses and released nauseous gases, and a walking mechanism fueled by these gases, for the purpose of spreading infection. This plan was averted when the ship carrying the bio-weapon was sunk by American bombers during the war - but the bio-weapon remains active, infecting the sea life and spreading back into Japan in the form of what appears to be undead walking fish.It gets worse.An animated OVA for the story was released on February 15, 2012 by Ufotable. There are some artistic liberties with the OVA story, such as Kaori becoming the protagonist, as well as new side characters to boot.Trailer for the OVA can be viewed here. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: Kaori's Shower Scene is upgraded to one of her friends getting DP'ed. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: Aki chants "Die, die, die, die" under her breath as she simmers over Kaori leaving and Erika engaging in a threesome. | |
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No Biochemical Barriers | |
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No Biochemical Barriers: The disease can apparently infect anything. It was originally developed to infect mammals, specifically the original plan was to release infected dogs and have them spread it to enemy soldiers, but in addition to this we also see such diverse things as elephants, cattle, pigs and whales, the eponymous fish and sharks and even squid. Then again it is supernatural bacteria. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Erika and her gentleman friends are less than truthful in their television interviews. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: The manga had very little blood; the OVA has gallons. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand!: At the end, when Kaori is surrounded by a mob of walkers, she and Tadashi try to reach out to each other, but Kaori is overwhelmed and killed. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Tadashi discovers that Kaori has tried to kill herself by hanging...and the jet of gas coming from her butt is swinging her around as she hangs. | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: The apparent motivation for Tadashi's uncle improving upon the design of the old, rusted mechanical legs and constructing the two prototype walkers. What exactly he planned on doing with them is a mystery for the ages. | |
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Adaptation Deviation | |
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Adaptation Deviation: In the OVA, it's Tadashi who gets infected instead of Kaori. | |
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Devoured by the Horde | |
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Devoured by the Horde: How Aki dies, in a basin filled with walking fishes. Unlike Tadashi, who survives this event in the manga, Aki does not have such luck and ends up dying while laughing mad. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: In the OVA, Tsuyoshi uses a BloodBerry. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Ms. Yoshiyama does not exist here. Tadashi's uncle has no assistant, and Tsuyoshi is the one who takes him to Lab No. 2. | |
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Wolverine Publicity | |
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Wolverine Publicity: There's quite a few of those landsharks crawling around in the OVA. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: In the form of a group of immune students from Kyoto University, who are studying the disease with the intention to create a vaccine. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Tadashi's uncle. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Kaori is killed and Tadashi's uncle has fused himself to a flying version of the walking machines and kidnapped Ms. Yoshiyama. Yet, Tadashi does encounter La Résistance, who seem to be immune and are looking for a way to stop the walking machines. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: A grey, swirling sky is shown off throughout the OVA. It's actually pretty by the end.◊ | |
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Screaming Woman | |
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Screaming Woman: Kaori. In nearly every scene. In the anime, however, she is noticeably much calmer. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Tadashi. | |
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Helping Hands | |
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Helping Hands: Tadashi's uncle lose a hand to one of the walking-machines. The same appendage somehow gains sentience on it's own later on. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
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Scenery Gorn: The final chapter plays this to the extreme, with giant walkers that used to contain fish now being powered by mountains of dead human bodies. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Apart from Tadashi meeting up with La Résistance, it's a total downer. Kaori is killed by the other walking machines and apparently incinerated (although given the context, Tadashi notes that this counts as a Mercy Kill), Tadashi's uncle is revealed to have attached himself to his own walking machine and forces Ms. Yoshiyama to join him and they fly off to destinations unknown, and the future is bleak besides Tadashi and the other immune survivors vowing to find a way to put an end to the catastrophe. The OVA tries to make the ending even worse by showing scenes of the infection in different countries, a clear sign that unless an immunity is developed, most of humanity is pretty much screwed. Unlike the manga, the OVA implies that there is an organized effort by the Japanese government (or its remnant) to evacuate the survivors from Japan, or at least from Tokyo. Similar evacuation efforts may very well be taking place in other countries. Also, the internet is shown to be still functional when Tsuyoshi uploads the plague data. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Those infected with the gas become bloated and covered in boils. A particularly gruesome moment as a result of the walkers comes when Yoshiyama tries to remove the tubes from Kaori's mouth. Her lips instead stretch when the tubes are pulled, and her mouth is visibly irritated once Yoshiyama gives up, making it clear that these machines integrate and become irremovable. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
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Adaptation Distillation: The OVA adds a few more characters to the roster, while downplaying Tadashi and his uncle and making Kaori the main character. Given that the original manga only had four main characters and was relatively short and straightforward, it's natural to assume that more characters would be added to give the OVA more meat to the story. Kaori herself has parts of her personality removed, specifically her obsessive clinging to Tadashi and her overly sensitive nose, while maintaining the same devotion to Tadashi. Her more negative attributes are shifted to two new characters, Erika and Aki. Tadashi retains his levelheaded personality even if his role is downplayed in Kaori's favor. Their roles are generally switched, as Tadashi is the one who becomes infected by the gas while Kaori is trying to find him. The two don't even spend any screen time in the same room up until Kaori finally finds him at his uncle's house. Right before he is attacked by a shark, Tadashi warns Kaori over the phone not to come to Tokyo, as the walking fish plague has spread there. Not that staying in Okinawa would have been any better... | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: Invoked when the hero falls into a canal and goes into a Convenient Coma for a month. | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
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Zombie Apocalypse: The ending. | |
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Hell Is That Noise | |
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Hell Is That Noise: The arrival of the Great White Shark is always precipitated by the sound effect "GASHUNK", referring to the mechanisms of its walking machine moving. The same sound is a sure-fire sign other walking machines are around, and becomes all the more prevalent as the manga's storyline proceeds onwards. | |
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Threatening Shark | |
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Threatening Shark: The first serious threat Tadashi and Kaori face is a walker attached to a great white shark. Later on, a policeman is attacked by a walker attached to a hammerhead shark. | |
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Tentacle Rope | |
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Tentacle Rope: The octopus walker predictably does this to Kaori. Luckily, she's saved before anything bad befalls her, unlke in the manga where the octopus throws Tadashi to a basin of walking fishes. | |
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Creepy Circus Music | |
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Creepy Circus Music: When the scent is blown into musical instruments, it comes out sounding like this, on its own. | |
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Circus of Fear | |
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Circus of Fear: The setting of the penultimate chapter. Yes, there are clowns. | |
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Evil Uncle | |
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Evil Uncle: Downplayed; Tadashi's uncle isn't truly evil, but he is callous and rather unhinged. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
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Cosmic Horror Story: The circus master's interpretation of the gas is that it is coming from (or at least controlled by beings from) another world, which would definitely put the story in this genre. However, there are also other explanations offered up for the gas, of considerably more mundane origin, and it's never made clear who's right. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: When Tadashi discovers that the walkers are now using humans, he calls out a soldier who is firing at these human walkers because he's murdering them. The soldier tells him that he has to because they're monsters. Considering that Tadashi later discovers while trying to free Kaori that at the moment, it would be immensely difficult or even outright impossible to remove the machines without greatly harming the host (or harming the people helping them), the soldier has a point. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Kaori" comes from Japanese words referring to smell, and she has a very powerful sense of smell (causing her to pick up the Death Stench before anyone else). | |
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Giving Them the Strip | |
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Giving Them the Strip: Kaori sheds her sneaker to escape when she steps on a vacant set of walking-legs. Erika ends up slipping out of one of her stockings to free herself from Aki's grip. When the group first encounters a shark in person, Erika ends up stuck when one of the shark's metal legs pins her skirt to the floor. She is pulled free by Kaori, but the same can't be said for her skirt. | |
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Surreal Horror | |
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Surreal Horror: Bet you'd never have thought "fish on stilts" could be so terrifying, would you? | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Kaori in the anime. However, on the flipside… Death by Adaptation: Tadashi. | |
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Depopulation Bomb | |
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Depopulation Bomb: The death stench is theorized to have been developed as a weapon for war. It certainly succeeds in decimating the population, but it's under nobody's control. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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AThreesomeIsManly | |
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A Threesome is Manly: Erika and her two strangers. | |
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Raising the Steaks | |
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Raising the Steaks: Here, the gas infection starts with animals, then moves to humans. However, none of them are anything but a store for the gas, and aren't mentally controlled by it. | |
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Gasshole | |
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Gasshole: The first symptom of the plague is extremely violent, foul-smelling flatulence. It's not as funny as it sounds, though. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: The OVA's first few moments are spent establishing everyone's character, just before the invasion. | |
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SexEqualsDeath | |
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Sex Equals Death: Erika is a promiscuous person whose priority is getting laid, and gets into a threesome. She is the first on-screen character to be mutated and assimilated by a walker. | |
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Fog of Doom | |
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Fog of Doom: Due to the threat being a gas, it envelops the setting pretty quickly. | |
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Just Before the End | |
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Just Before the End: From what the ending shows, the walking machines have completely taken over most of Japan and is ready to assimilate the rest of the world, leading to an uncertain apocalypse about to befall humanity. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Kaori in the manga spends most of her screen-time being such a whiny, ungrateful Jerkass to Tadashi (to the point of even trying to kill him and Ms. Yoshiyama), that it is hard to feel bad for her when she meets her ultimate demise. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: The soldier who shoots at the legged machines driven by human bodies, and then gets impaled by one. In a sense, the karma goes even deeper than that, as the Imperial Japanese Army - the predecessor of the JSDF - was the organization that created the bio-weapon in the first place. By the end, Japan's population is in grave danger. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: The victims of the walking machines may still be conscious. Kaori is conscious enough to recognize Tadashi, mistake him for being with Ms. Yoshiyama when she sees them holding each other, activate her machine so she can try to kill them, and reach out for Tadashi when she gets killed by the other walkers. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: When Tadashi and Ms. Yoshiyama discover Tadashi's uncle attached to a walking machine and he goes after them, they wonder if it's because he's still conscious and thinks they're romantically involved, and they try to explain to him that they're not. When this fails (it's unclear if he couldn't hear them or if that wasn't the problem), Kaori sees Tadashi and Ms. Yoshiyama holding each other (in fear) and makes the assumption they made about Tadashi's uncle, leading to her reactivating her walker and attempting to kill them. | |
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Final Girl | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_ad4c74ed | comment |
Final Girl: In the anime, where Kaori is the only named survivor. | |
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Editorial Synaesthesia | |
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Editorial Synaesthesia: Stink lines. These later segue into visible gas, downplaying the device. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Zombie fish. With robot legs. Actually, just robot legs using animals as batteries. Made by ghosts? | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Ignoring the physical Body Horror for a bit, the bacteria slowly paralyses the victims' muscular and nervous systems, keeping them vegetative but very much alive. Kaori is even conscious enough to reactivate her walker and try to Murder the Hypotenuse. | |
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Evil Smells Bad | |
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Evil Smells Bad: Basically what the story is about, with the scent itself being the evil. | |
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Lost in Translation | |
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Lost in Translation: The title in both English and Japanese (rendered as ギョ in katakana) is a phonetic rendering of an Alternate Character Reading for éš ("fish"). Normally read as sakana, the alternate reading typically appears in the context of compound words like the word for mermaid, ningyo (人éš, literally person-fish) or the Japanese name for the ichthyosaur, gyoryu (éšç«œ, literally Fish-Dragon). A rough equivalent for the intentional oddness conveyed would be somewhere between "Pheesh" and "Ichthy"—something of fish, but not a fish. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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The OVA adds a few more characters to the roster, while downplaying Tadashi and his uncle and making Kaori the main character. Given that the original manga only had four main characters and was relatively short and straightforward, it's natural to assume that more characters would be added to give the OVA more meat to the story. | |
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Heavy Voice | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_bb3bdc50 | comment |
Heavy Voice: This, combined with Voice of the Legion, is a side effect of Erika's infection. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: One of the rare examples played entirely for horror. The pipes in the walking machines shove themselves into the mouth and anus of their host(s), as the machines are powered by the gas emitted by the germs in the body. It happens when infected humans get wired into the walking machines. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: When the Death Stench starts to infect humans some chapters later, there is again a lot of nudity, also of Kaori, but this time, it certainly isn't played for fanservice, as the effects make all those affected bloated and covered in boils. The term Squick only scratches the surface... | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: What compels the walkers' behavior. They straddle the line between being a sentient bio-weapon and being literally powered by ghosts. The story provides no definitive answer. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: The fact that Kaori goes into full-blown fits over a scent only she can smell doesn't help. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Tadashi's uncle is forced to cut off his left arm when it gets caught by the walking machine he was studying. Tadashi almost loses a foot when he steps on an open walking machine, although he's able to get it off and becomes more careful while walking around. | |
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Square-Cube Law | |
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Square-Cube Law: At one point, a sperm whale on robot legs crawls out of the sea... but immediately crushes the legs under its weight. | |
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Voice of the Legion | |
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Voice of the Legion: This, combined with Heavy Voice, is a side effect of Erika's infection. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: The very first person to discover the walking fish just happens to be the one whose uncle is the only one that knows the real backstory behind them. | |
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Cat Scare | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_dda12cb3 | comment |
Cat Scare: Kaori is subjected to a Cockroach Scare when she tells Tadashi to check for the walking fishes in their apartment. One zips out from under a shoe-rack, making Kaori freak out, but Tadashi squashes it and tells her it's only a roach. | |
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Monumental Damage | |
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Monumental Damage: The world's doom is sealed with a montage of swarms at the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Empire State Building, and Kremlin. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
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Space Whale Aesop: Don't overlook the terrible things your country did in the past, or else the ghosts of their victims will get revenge using walking zombie fish. | |
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Ghostapo | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_e8b3ee16 | comment |
Ghostapo: A variation using Imperial Japan instead of Nazi Germany; the gas is implied to be somehow related to the horrific biological warfare experiments conducted by Japan during World War II, and possibly controlled by the spirits of people killed by them. This, oddly enough, makes Gyo one of the few works of Japanese fiction to address Japan's wartime atrocities. | |
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Body of Bodies | |
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Body of Bodies: Something like this becomes a commonplace sight, with larger fishes' emptied walkers taking on many human bodies to continue powering them. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Tadashi notes to Kaori's skeleton that her death is this, as she no longer has to suffer from being attached to the walker and doesn't have to put up with the smell of rotting corpses anymore. | |
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Creepy Uncle | |
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Creepy Uncle: Tadashi's uncle, also a Mad Scientist. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Aki to Erika once she's been infected. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: The first walking fish is smashed and bagged, but its bacteria keeps producing enough gases to make it float to the mainland. | |
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BloodSplatteredInnocents | |
| Gyo (Manga) / int_fec6ea72 | comment |
Blood-Splattered Innocents: At one point in the OVA, Kaori slips and falls in a large puddle of blood. | |
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Spider Tank | |
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Spider Tank: All the walking fish are fused with these. The machines get bigger for bigger creatures emerging from the sea, and once they rot, the machines will accept humans to keep moving. | |
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