![]() Infected by the gas, Kaori becomes depressed by being subjected to her illness's symptoms and attempts to commit suicide. Soon, Kaori and Tadashi discover that hordes of marine life with legs are in the process of overrunning Tokyo, having gradually invaded the Kantō region. The walking machine scuttles into the room, now carrying Koyanagi's arm instead of the fish. As he was examining the machine in detail, it used a series of spikes and tubes to latch onto his arm, forcing him to amputate it. However, during the war, enemy aircraft sunk the ship carrying the prototypes for the walking machines.Ī short while later, Tadashi returns to find Koyanagi missing an arm. His father developed a "walking machine", which pumps the virus into a host and causes the host to release the gas which powers the machine's movement walking machines were built to carry the hosts farther, allowing them to reach and sicken enemy troops. Koyanagi reveals that the creature is the result of the Imperial Japanese Army's World War II research into a virus that causes its host to produce a deadly and repulsive stench, in a desperate effort to turn the tide of the war. They both encounter the bagged fish they originally encased and present it to his uncle, Doctor Koyanagi. Tadashi and Kaori manage to return to Tokyo, although Kaori becomes disgusted and paranoid, claiming to smell the fish. The next day, large amounts of marine life with legs invade Okinawa, including a legged great white shark which menaces the protagonists. He seals it in a bag, but it manages to escape. Encountering a fish with legs, Kaori, who has a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, becomes irritated by its smell and begs Tadashi to get rid of it. Meanwhile, in Okinawa, Tadashi, a young man, and his longtime girlfriend Kaori arrive on the island to enjoy a scuba-diving vacation. The fish then suddenly scuttle away, diving back into the ocean. Upon trying to inspect the unusual creatures, they discover that the strange fish seem to have legs. Gyo opens with a crew of fishermen aboard a trawler dragging up several strange-looking fish in the boat's net. Viz Media published an English-language translation of the two volumes in North America from September 2003 to March 2004 and re-released it from October 2007 to January 2008.Īn anime adaptation by Ufotable was released on February 15, 2012. The work also includes a pair of bonus stories, titled The Sad Tale of the Principal Post and The Enigma of Amigara Fault. The story revolves around a couple, Tadashi and Kaori, as they fight to survive against a mysterious horde of undead fish with metal legs powered by an odor known as the "death stench". Shogakukan collected the chapters into two bound volumes from February to May 2002. "Fish: Ghastly Squirming") in Japan, is a horror seinen manga written and illustrated by Junji Ito, appearing as a serial in the weekly manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2001 to 2002. ![]() On December 11th, 2018, user LetItMelo posted a Super Mario redraw to Newgrounds (seen below, right).Gyo ( ギョ, "Fish"), fully titled Gyo Ugomeku Bukimi ( ギョ うごめく不気味, lit. The meme saw a resurgence in the late 2010s, with people redrawing the original panel with the specific quote, "It was made for me!" and "This is my hole!" On June 12th, 2018, Redditor PointlessAccount123 posted an edit using the manga panel to /r/animememes, gathering over 500 upvotes in over four years (seen below, left). The posts gathered nearly 2,000 views each in 13 years (seen below). Several memes based on the premise of the comic were uploaded to the Know Your Meme website in 2009, including two uploaded by user Greater Malison on December 9th, 2009. A Pokémon parody of the panel was posted to Encyclopedia Dramatic on July 23rd, 2008. Some early memes and redraws using this panel can be traced back to the year 2008, with a Spongebob parody of the panel being posted to Something Awful forums on March 9th, 2008 (seen below, left). The manga became popular on 4chan's /x/ (supernatural and paranormal) board for the hilarity of the various awkwardly translated quotes, such as: The original unedited panel for the meme template can be seen below. They then become hypnotized into going through their holes, emerging months later on the other side of the mountain, hideously deformed. As people travel to see the spectacle, they realize that the holes were specifically made for individual people. The plot follows an earthquake that reveals several human-shaped holes on the side of a fault. Japanese manga artist Junji Ito's short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault was first published in his 2002 horror manga Gyo.
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