The Liminal Zone, Vol. 2
VIZ Media LLC · Hardcover · March 25, 2025
The Liminal Zone, Vol.
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- Who it’s for
- Junji Ito pairs liminal dread with the peculiar unease of people and places gone strange.
- Themes
- Death beyond its apparent end, Disappearance, Searching for personal truth
- Genres
- Horror Comics, General Manga, Occult & Supernatural Comics
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Four-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito presents brand-new nightmares! Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await. What fate awaits when death is not the end? A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there.
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Before they can answer the questions of who made it and to what end, the friends begin to disappear, one after the other. Another story sees the return of the strange Hikizuri siblings! A girl weighed down since birth by an invisible burden meets the odd siblings and moves in with them in order to understand the truth about herself. But after a string of bizarre occurrences, the siblings’ uncle appears on the scene…
Nightmare Edges
Junji Ito pairs liminal dread with the peculiar unease of people and places gone strange.
Come here for
- Mountain-village machinery and unanswered menace
- A return to the unsettling Hikizuri siblings
Expect
- Bizarre occurrences that unsettle more than they explain
- Two distinct strands of eerie horror
Where it sits
| Horror Comics | 90% |
|---|---|
| Occult & Supernatural Comics | 56% |
| General Manga | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fantasy Comics
- Horror Comics
- General Manga
- Authors
- Junji Ito
- Publisher
- VIZ Media LLC
- Published
- March 25, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Death beyond its apparent end · Disappearance · Searching for personal truth
- Reading lane
- Fantasy Comics