Black Paradox Review

Connected through a website called Black Paradox, our protagonists plan to drive to a quiet place and end their lives all together. But with every story written by Junji Ito, comes a twist just as odd. It seems that not everyone is what they claim to be, and their original mission fails as a peculiar element enters their lives and threatens to change it drastically.

The characters are three-dimensional, the twists are exciting, and the whole plot is that perfect blend of bizarre and delightful that Junji Ito is so well-known for.

One of the things I enjoy about Ito’s stories is that outrageous statements like this make sense in context: “Kikuchi, who is he? This man with the stomach leading to another world.” Fantastic review copy sent to The Artifice by VIZ Media.