Welcome to Geek Girl Reads Manga! In today's post we continue with Gyo, as shit starts to get real.
When we last left Tadashi, his girlfriend was being a bitch and he was chasing fish with legs down to the beach. Well, as this chapter opens, we learn that his dreams of being able to name a new species of legfish might come true, as a whole bunch of them start coming ashore. He can't catch any of them, though--they move too fast for Our Intrepid Hero, so he does what any level-headed protagonist would do in this situation.
He calls the police.
Who don't believe him.
Because legfish.
Kaori is no help because she's still being a bitch and refuses to corroborate his story, so the local cops think that Tadashi is either some kind of nutbar or someone who mistook a cat or dog for a bunch of legfish. Kaori's excuse is that she still has a fever and he ran off after the legfish and abandoned her and oh my god just shut up already.
Turns out that Tadashi shouldn't have worried about collecting a legfish specimen, because a fishing boat just dredged up a whole mess of them in their net--fish of all kinds and even a squid with the weird spidery legs on them. Hilarity ensues on the fishing boat. Elsewhere, on the beach, one of the happy vacationers spots a fin sticking out of the water. He calls out a warning about the shark, and everyone stampedes out of the water. This includes the shark, who--you guessed it--comes motoring out on a big set of spidery legs.
Back to Tadashi and Kaori. Her fever has gone down and they seem to be having a heartfelt talk.
Who apologizes for the blowup from earlier? He does. Now, I'm not sure about how shit like this works in Japanese culture, but I'm sure nobody in this hemisphere would blame him for dropping her like a hot rock the second they got home from vacay because drama.
Aaaaanyway, he leans in to kiss her, and she starts bitching about a bad smell. He protests that he brushed his teeth and used mouthwash and everything, and this time she concedes that it's not him and that it's coming from outside. Tadashi looked outside and sees A bunch of legfish in the streets, most prominently Mr. Leggy Shark.
8-O
If it wasn't clear by the fact that Junji Ito is behind this, I would say now is the point where it's clear that shit is going to get a lot worse before it gets better (if it ever gets better because nothing good can come of having a freaking shark crawling around on land). I'm still wondering what the heck those leggy devices are that the fish seem to be attached to, and what the heck they're even for. Ito tends to be a bit light on explanations in some of his works, so I'm not expecting a whole lot here other than wall-to-wall creepage.
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