And there's a girl in the dark comedy of Kaiki Hikizuri Kyoudai who likes to threaten suicide as a way to drum up sympathy, to manipulate people.
And as chapter 5 is a oneshot sequel to that story, that topic of suicide is also there (though it feels a bit more subtle and less in your face than in the other story).
1-4), where we see the boy at the crossroads convincing a bunch of girls to kill themselves. In fact, that's the primary topic of the first story (ch. Several of the stories include suicide and self-harm as topics. The first one of those is a dark comedy about siblings with "distorted morals and topsy-turvy common sense" and does include some gruesome imagery, while the second comedic story is basically just toilet humor and lacks any of the death and decay which is common in Junji Ito's works. 6-7, 10) which would better be placed under the Comedy umbrella. Most of these stories are Horror, but there are two of them (ch. I've written individual reviews for each of these oneshots and shorties, so this review will instead be talking about themes and such within these collected pieces and how well they mesh together. There are five or six stories within this collection, depending on whether you want to count chapter five as included with the first four or separate. Junji Ito seems to have quite a few of these collections.
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