Review: Remina

Remina by Junji Ito
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Warning; Viewer discretion Advised. Story contains graphic content, body horror, cosmic horror, and other disturbing content.

You know those old tales of cosmic horror, the Lovecraftian eldritch gods, whose merely psychic presence was enough to drive men insane; whose inevitable arrival would mean the end of all reality?

Well, Junji Ito's Remina gives you of a good approximation as to what that might actually look like.

When a mysterious new planet is discovered on the dark side of a wormhole, the scientist who discovered it, named it after his daughter. Soon after, as if drawn to their discovery, the planet, appearing as if it has a will of its own, begin racing across galactic distances, straight towards earth, consuming other celestial bodies in its path.

Naturally, this causes mass hysteria, civil unrest and rioting amongst the earth's populace; largely directed towards the one convenient target which happens to share the name of the world ending disaster. Let the insanity propagate!

I felt that at times Remina reminded me of Uzumaki, but on a planetary scale.

The visuals, as usual, are disturbing and horrifying. But this time around, with large parts of the action taking place at a celestial scale, there is much more awe inspiring, yet sometimes disturbing comical frames of people floating around a near doomed planet, with its centrifugal and gravitational forces out of Wack.

All of which makes for great world building and storytelling. Something that would be a definite recommendation, again for an adult audience.

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