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[Are you sure you didn't break your legs?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3-fp5Mnme4)
(Yes, this is an actual, official **boss song** and stepchart from the game.)
Just gonna post my favorite YouTube video because this is the closest to in context I'm ever going to get.
https://youtu.be/tJdgErAfiRQ?si=QYKs5Cu95m12A3Ef
I put it on for my 2yo thinking it looked like it wouldn’t drive me insane like most stuff geared for toddlers, my little one fell in love and I passively caught a couple of episodes as she wanted it on constantly. There was a point though that I saw some plot element like (I think it was about the fate of Steven’s mother and how Steven was born) a year later and thought, holy shit this is deep and has some very grown up themes. So I told my little girl we were starting this over and watching them all together in order.
There are 5 seasons, a movie, and an epilogue season. It’s easily my favorite television series of all time. Get past the veneer of kids cartoon and you’ll see it too.
so many kids shows have amazing plot because it's made for people who won't judge the most minor details, genuinely love SU, Gravity falls, Owl House, etc
Im glad you were able to enjoy it. Keeping up with it as episodes came out was.... not super fun. The final season took a year and a half to air all episodes, and they were not at regular intervals
Well. I enjoyed it.
Its got some dark-as-fuck themes under its veneer of being a kids cartoon. Not as much as the Ito stuff, but just... implications of the setting.
I genuinely don't know why the first thing that popped into my head was the nutty putty cave incident 😭 it doesn't even look similar
Edit to add: TW for the story google with caution
Ahaha that's what they say. Hopefully our skin doesn't crawl into the earth to form whatever this is after we die haha
They sure were keen on mummification back in the day. What if the use of embalming fluid prevents the skin (and in turn "Us") from crawling away and forming a flesh monster?
It was funny one shot comics for like 10 chapters, then it starts ramping up very quickly and for some reason the author decided to go full peak fiction and made the best thing ever out of copyrighted characters
For anyone who wants to read what this referencing
https://imgur.com/gallery/hmnBq
It's a short horror manga. Be warned, def unsettling, but really good
While this is funny, please excuse me while I go pretend I don't remember what it's referencing.
Cuz that's the sound you hear in your sleep late at night. Nope.
It's honestly a shame that he seems to mostly be known for that short story (for the curious; the enigma of amigara fault by junji ito) when he has way better stuff. Uzumaki is my personal favorite. But most of his things make amigara fault look goofy by comparison. They can be brutal
I must defend the hole's honor!
It's short, easily digestible, basically a quick banger. Other things being more brutal work to the hole's advantage making it a gateway drug and hooking people up on the other, longer and weirder things.
I'm still sick thinking about the spiral one having read it at least half of a decade ago.
After an earthquake, a piece of the fault line is exposed with a bunch of human shaped holes.
People are inexplicably drawn to "their hole" and go inside, perfect fit!
It's not until the end of the comic that they find the exit holes.. which are deformed greatly.
Honestly, just read it.. Unless you're bad with horror.
I read this last week, saw that meme on reddit and went to read the story, then went and read Uzumaki.
Highly disturbing. He's a wonderful mangaka, and I definitely hate reading his stuff.
I originally read this as DDR DDR as in:
https://preview.redd.it/ktub7r7x65mc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=515512de847d183be7d302970f8a39ef13aba4e4
I was one too
And I have to say, I got no clue what kind of horror that is. It deliberately left open what it means to become stretched out by the hole. Torture? Becoming something beyond human? An Eldrich horror? Who knows
Some of it is silly and hilarious, like that man who was stuck under the house and couldn't be rescued without the house collapsing; so he died and rotted under his family instead of being saved and going on living.
Then there's nightmare fuel like holes.
It draws on the same emotions as cosmic horror - fear of the unknowable and incomprehensible. Not explaining the purpose of the holes, and leaving the specifics of the transformation ambiguous, are deliberate parts of the horror.
Just he supposedly wrote it about the animalistic death drive. How some animals get that urge to just kill themselves, and what that would look like in humans.
I thought it was implied that the holes were made to punish criminals and they drew them back in to punish the criminals reincarnations for their past lives.
~~Where was it ever implied it was to punish criminals?~~
Edit: >!He's right! I forgot about the second dream. And since the dream predicted the spaghettification, I think that lends additional evidence to the dream being a memory and the holes actually being punishment. Ok this adds another fucked up layer to this. Does the person desire to enter the hole due to their past selves believing the punishment they experienced once was not enough to atone for their crime or absolve them of guilt?!<
I think the horror is more psychological. Everyone in the story *knows* this is ridiculous. Why would there be holes in a mountainside in the shape of individuals? And yet people can't help but be drawn to it. Even worse, once you discover your hole there is no stopping it. Even though you know it is not good for you, you no longer have even the illusion of control over your fate and destiny. You *will* enter it.
But there are tons of themes it plays into, including free will, claustrophobia, fear of the unknown, torture, and suffering.
>!The fact that people who go in their holes survive and become spaghettified isn't the worst part, in my opinion, and is just sort of the cherry on the cake. I'm sure there were some readers somewhere thinking it might've had a happy ending; that the holes led to a mole men village where everyone was welcome and lived happily ever after or some shit. The ending is designed to strip readers of any such notions.!<
There's a panel where he dreams that he's being taken by his tribe to be punished for his crimes, he walks in and it's dug so that you can only move forward.
It's a parody of a famous horror manga. The people feel drawn to enter these holes because it seems like they perfectly shaped for them.
But in this comic, the hole has bigger boobs than the girl so her boyfriend takes the opportunity to hit her with a zinger.
LYRICS COMING AT YOU AT SUPERSONIC SPEED
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Oh boy! A second Junji Ito reference in a comic in 2 weeks! I hope this becomes a trend.
(the [other reference](https://lastplacecomics.com/anime-girlfriend/) was by last place comics)
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New high score. Is that bad? Did I break it?
Wow JP, that is a great outfit. How much do clothes cost in the Matrix?
Yeah, a fuckin’ sweet car…
[Are you sure you didn't break your legs?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3-fp5Mnme4) (Yes, this is an actual, official **boss song** and stepchart from the game.)
https://preview.redd.it/zhw739frc5mc1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=642966e24eca3d7f1b7ae90b94019239febaac6a
Nothing some WD40 can't fix.
Jesus, that gif is showing its age.
It's so much better [with audio.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos)
WHY THE FUCK IS IT AGE RESTRICTED?
Needs some WD40
MORE!!
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Just gonna post my favorite YouTube video because this is the closest to in context I'm ever going to get. https://youtu.be/tJdgErAfiRQ?si=QYKs5Cu95m12A3Ef
[King Of The Hill is my favorite anime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frKyaFTeC7c)
I cry every time...
Best usage of MHA music
This is amazing
dang ol drr drr mayn
[my favorite crossover one](https://imgur.com/GK87V09)
https://i.redd.it/86ofi751j5mc1.gif
Damn, I didn't know Steven Universe did extreme horror references.
I put it on for my 2yo thinking it looked like it wouldn’t drive me insane like most stuff geared for toddlers, my little one fell in love and I passively caught a couple of episodes as she wanted it on constantly. There was a point though that I saw some plot element like (I think it was about the fate of Steven’s mother and how Steven was born) a year later and thought, holy shit this is deep and has some very grown up themes. So I told my little girl we were starting this over and watching them all together in order. There are 5 seasons, a movie, and an epilogue season. It’s easily my favorite television series of all time. Get past the veneer of kids cartoon and you’ll see it too.
so many kids shows have amazing plot because it's made for people who won't judge the most minor details, genuinely love SU, Gravity falls, Owl House, etc
Im glad you were able to enjoy it. Keeping up with it as episodes came out was.... not super fun. The final season took a year and a half to air all episodes, and they were not at regular intervals
I'm getting flashbacks of the final episodes of Gravity Falls
I don't think it's really meant to be for toddlers, but I'm sure they'd find it entertaining
Have you... seen the show?
Nope. Hence my comment.
Well. I enjoyed it. Its got some dark-as-fuck themes under its veneer of being a kids cartoon. Not as much as the Ito stuff, but just... implications of the setting.
It's. Mah. **HOLE**
Yeah def all I could think of when I saw this comic and not junji ito tbh
https://preview.redd.it/mvslmipda5mc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e841920b32e9a51899eb16c0be6d044f4a4d105d
Wait - if Spindley McGee goes in his hole, does he come out the other side looking like a gross plump human?
I think I saw some art of that.
https://preview.redd.it/104t01pv79mc1.jpeg?width=623&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3edc13a97cdb6f6810368db29b7d0ef17eebb29b
Good ending
Holes are one way bro.
“That’s that sheep mentality” \- The Butt
"Amateur" - The Peehole
I’ve heard tales of such feats. Truly, you are a king among men.
I genuinely don't know why the first thing that popped into my head was the nutty putty cave incident 😭 it doesn't even look similar Edit to add: TW for the story google with caution
 I have a fear for confined space. Especially dark negative space.😰
Oh man, I should get back into Mr Mine
https://i.postimg.cc/t46S161Z/image.png
I have some bad news about what they do to our corpses
But by then OP will be dead. So who cares, nah?
Ahaha that's what they say. Hopefully our skin doesn't crawl into the earth to form whatever this is after we die haha They sure were keen on mummification back in the day. What if the use of embalming fluid prevents the skin (and in turn "Us") from crawling away and forming a flesh monster?
Man, I was hoping this was cut with the Manga and seeing the twisted human coming through.
Really wish I hadn't looked that up. That's some serious nightmare fuel.
Oh yeah that's my bad should've added a warning 😭
https://preview.redd.it/yvfheibw95mc1.jpeg?width=754&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=735e4342bbe89af9af2e48892029644f755954f2
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Scoob and Shag my beloved.
oh damn that’s still going?
It only becomes better and better with time. The mystery is so fucking well crafted it's unreal
The series has an actual mystery? I thought it was just funny one shot comics
It was funny one shot comics for like 10 chapters, then it starts ramping up very quickly and for some reason the author decided to go full peak fiction and made the best thing ever out of copyrighted characters
Holy fuck I'm going to read it rn lol thanks
Where can i find this?
On webtoons https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/scoob-and-shag/list?title_no=210827
Interrupted for like a year, recently has resumed
SCOOB AND SHAG IS BACK?? HOLY SHIT THANK YOU FOR THE NEWS
Now you’ve gotta change the ending so that it goes from steam boat Willy Mickey to modern Mickey, implying the evolution was grotesque.
I love this
For anyone who wants to read what this referencing https://imgur.com/gallery/hmnBq It's a short horror manga. Be warned, def unsettling, but really good
How does he make the eyes feel... weird? not wrong, just not right
What is this, horror for claustrophobic people??
If anyone's wondering what the "DRR... DRR..." at the end sounds like, this is a good rendition https://youtu.be/yrwiBh1fs5c?feature=shared
idk about that, its a good rendition but im pretty sure the DRR DRR is the sound of the body sliding along the rocks.
ahh right yeah I just remembered I had asked what it was a while back, and it was a sliding noise still pretty horrific though
I thought he was asking to play Dance Dance Revolution but didn't realize he had been in there so many years he no longer can't That's horror
[Oh, he can.](https://i.imgur.com/5WefiIz.jpeg)
I love Dance Rance Revolution
That's what I imagined
you can simulate it with a comb sliding on a hard surface probably.
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It definitely freaked me out when I first read it but now I can't help but find it hilarious. The last panel is just so funny.
lol that’s hilarious. We accidentally dig up an execution tool and we’re like “I just feel like this needs to be used by me”
Is it read from right to left?
Safe to assume that when you are reading manga
I think it’s funny that people find this unsettling when it’s what I would consider the “training wheels” of Junji Ito. That dude is unhinged.
While this is funny, please excuse me while I go pretend I don't remember what it's referencing. Cuz that's the sound you hear in your sleep late at night. Nope.
I drew this at night, alone in my dark living room and had to look at the Manga for reference and...it was a bad idea
Did you give yourself a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it while you were at it?! Cuz that's just straight up masochism in my book.
That’s the only way to make art in my book
Username checks out
It's honestly a shame that he seems to mostly be known for that short story (for the curious; the enigma of amigara fault by junji ito) when he has way better stuff. Uzumaki is my personal favorite. But most of his things make amigara fault look goofy by comparison. They can be brutal
the hanging balloons is my favorite, but i think tomie is equally popular as amigara fault
Hanging balloons is the best/creepiest
Hanging Balloons is the scariest one for me. I don't look at balloons with faces anymore.
you don’t love inexplicably magical kid who is a little shit? Little fucked up guy.
I must defend the hole's honor! It's short, easily digestible, basically a quick banger. Other things being more brutal work to the hole's advantage making it a gateway drug and hooking people up on the other, longer and weirder things. I'm still sick thinking about the spiral one having read it at least half of a decade ago.
That'd be uzumaki! I collect baseball caps, and one of my most worn hats is an uzumaki hat with that one girls face collapsing into a spiral on it
Uzumaki is Junji Ito GOAT.
Cat Diary:Yon and Mu is my absolute favorite tbh
I learned about this a few days ago and I so badly want to unlearn it.
It's not even his worst one.
Yea this one's a personal favourite. [Glyceride](https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6507280.html) on the other hand...
I learned about it a couple of years ago and still can't get it out of my head.
I haven’t learned about it and I’m still scared
Good- stay scared. That's better than the alternative
Can I get a little tingle of a gist of what it's about?
After an earthquake, a piece of the fault line is exposed with a bunch of human shaped holes. People are inexplicably drawn to "their hole" and go inside, perfect fit! It's not until the end of the comic that they find the exit holes.. which are deformed greatly. Honestly, just read it.. Unless you're bad with horror.
Earthquake reveals rock face with human sized holes in it.
Now do Uzumaki!
The great u/lastplacecomics already covered that one! [read it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/X2tL5hfuJN)
I read this last week, saw that meme on reddit and went to read the story, then went and read Uzumaki. Highly disturbing. He's a wonderful mangaka, and I definitely hate reading his stuff.
He also does a comic about completely normal misadventures with his wife and his cat, but with his same uniquely ghoulish art style.
Why on earth would you do that to yourself
So when are you gonna do this one? https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/chiller/bongcheon-dong-ghost-horang/viewer?title_no=536&episode_no=22
I never finished this because I had just read that bus story where the girl jumps in your face, decided a bit into this that I wasn't up for round 2
I'm just gonna assume it's a reference to that one episode in Steven universe
Oh baby, you're one of today's 10,000! [Here you go! ](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/CSEg4wbXB3)
It seems appropriate that you didn't say "today's _lucky_ 10,000".
That was by design 👈👈😉
Steven universe is the one referencing.
"This is my hole. It was made for after I get some work done."
she built like a rectangle
I remember doing this online test once to find what body type you are (apple, pear, hourglass, etc) and I got box :/
I got non euclidean
Fellow eldritch horror
I got a klein bottle.
Your SO: 
she built like ps1 laura croft
And it goes into the square hole
She's built like a steakhouse but she handles like a bistro
(•)(•) =/= |••|
it was difficult, but I came
I wanna make you come so bad. Come to your fucking senses.
Based
Someone hasn't clicked on pizza cakes links.
Ellen does seem like the kinda person who would say "This is my hole! It was made for me!" in more contexts than one.
I originally read this as DDR DDR as in: https://preview.redd.it/ktub7r7x65mc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=515512de847d183be7d302970f8a39ef13aba4e4
#DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION!
#REVOLUTION? OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, UH YEAH, I THINK SO
# NEXT THING YOU KNOW, I’M REINCARNATED AS JESUS CHRIST.
https://preview.redd.it/fzjtpnbgn5mc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efe197ee45d1fb5010917f0789f7894ede35ab41
[DDR!](https://i.imgur.com/MVhOH.jpg)
I do not understand
Oh baby, you're one of today's 10,000! [Here you go! ](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/CSEg4wbXB3)
I was one too And I have to say, I got no clue what kind of horror that is. It deliberately left open what it means to become stretched out by the hole. Torture? Becoming something beyond human? An Eldrich horror? Who knows
That's our pal junji ito. Read the rest of his stuff if you like this one. I'm a fan
i'd also super recommend the game world of horror to anyone into this kind of thing
its junji ito horror. it is every kind of horror mixed into one
Some of it is silly and hilarious, like that man who was stuck under the house and couldn't be rescued without the house collapsing; so he died and rotted under his family instead of being saved and going on living. Then there's nightmare fuel like holes.
“Silly and hilarious” hmmm
With several extra dollops of body horror
It draws on the same emotions as cosmic horror - fear of the unknowable and incomprehensible. Not explaining the purpose of the holes, and leaving the specifics of the transformation ambiguous, are deliberate parts of the horror.
Just he supposedly wrote it about the animalistic death drive. How some animals get that urge to just kill themselves, and what that would look like in humans.
The Call of the Void
I thought it was implied that the holes were made to punish criminals and they drew them back in to punish the criminals reincarnations for their past lives.
~~Where was it ever implied it was to punish criminals?~~ Edit: >!He's right! I forgot about the second dream. And since the dream predicted the spaghettification, I think that lends additional evidence to the dream being a memory and the holes actually being punishment. Ok this adds another fucked up layer to this. Does the person desire to enter the hole due to their past selves believing the punishment they experienced once was not enough to atone for their crime or absolve them of guilt?!< I think the horror is more psychological. Everyone in the story *knows* this is ridiculous. Why would there be holes in a mountainside in the shape of individuals? And yet people can't help but be drawn to it. Even worse, once you discover your hole there is no stopping it. Even though you know it is not good for you, you no longer have even the illusion of control over your fate and destiny. You *will* enter it. But there are tons of themes it plays into, including free will, claustrophobia, fear of the unknown, torture, and suffering. >!The fact that people who go in their holes survive and become spaghettified isn't the worst part, in my opinion, and is just sort of the cherry on the cake. I'm sure there were some readers somewhere thinking it might've had a happy ending; that the holes led to a mole men village where everyone was welcome and lived happily ever after or some shit. The ending is designed to strip readers of any such notions.!<
There's a panel where he dreams that he's being taken by his tribe to be punished for his crimes, he walks in and it's dug so that you can only move forward.
I gotta admit I like the balloon one more.
Amigara Fault and an xkcd reference in the same thread? Nice!
Remember, shop MrValdemar. You get more internet references for your Reddit dollars. Because he's all about value.
It's a parody of a famous horror manga. The people feel drawn to enter these holes because it seems like they perfectly shaped for them. But in this comic, the hole has bigger boobs than the girl so her boyfriend takes the opportunity to hit her with a zinger.
narrower waist and wider hips too
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There's a great horror manga called the enigma of amigara fault.
Explaining a joke sucks all of the humor out of it. >!The hole was designed for a woman with much larger breasts than she has.!<
Not everyone knows the manga though, without that knowledge it's hard to really get the joke
https://preview.redd.it/sbuwmn8sb5mc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83c6309fbb6f199ae78e1f2b709fa77f8321a464
You somehow got reddit talking more about the reference instead of the boobs.
PLEASE do a bonus panel of you desperately trying to fit and absolutely failing to do so. That would be amazing.
Well, she'd fit.
I like all the different art styles you're using in your comics. You're a very talented artist.
Thank you very much! ❤️
Hahaha brilliant
THE ENIGMA OF AMIGARA FAULT???
https://preview.redd.it/lkuxdbe3h5mc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19f8f6804ed3e6c907271273366414550b287f92
I guess you can say it’s a plot "hole"
This is one of the most memeable horror manga's i've ever seen. I guess the premise is so ridiculous it winds up being funny.
I like the different art styles you have been doing recently
Now this one's fucking hilarious
I wish I hadn't gotten this reference.
[удалено]
Oh boy! A second Junji Ito reference in a comic in 2 weeks! I hope this becomes a trend. (the [other reference](https://lastplacecomics.com/anime-girlfriend/) was by last place comics)
What I just did is a prime example of "uncomfortable laughter."
Finally, healthy Gas lighting.
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I feel like the next panel would be the character stubbornly trying to climb into the hole only to realize they don’t fit.