Hello everyone! I know it's been a bit since my last entry in this blog. Life happened (as it tends to do) but now I'm back, with the latest entry in Geek Girl Reads Manga!
When we last left off with Gyo, hundreds of legfish had come ashore in Okinawa, with no clear explanation of where they came from and why the mass migration. Now, a legshark that was seen at the end of the last chapter decides that Tadashi and Kaori look pretty damn tasty and comes into the house they're staying at to say hi. And by hi, I mean NOM NOM NOM.
Tadashi tells Kaori to escape out the window, which would be a fantastic idea if there weren't hundreds of legfish still teeming in the streets. Instead, she runs down the hallway, which somehow manages to be an even worse idea as the two of them are chase through the house by a shark.
Give yourself a moment to let that sink in.
Two teenagers.
Chased through their house.
By a shark.
SyFy would have a ball with this.
Meanwhile, out in the streets, the police are in kind of an odd place, as the legfish are attacking other people, and they can't seem to put the silly things down. They confirm the earlier assessment that they smell dead, meaning these things are zombie legfish. Two of the cops given any panel time at all are then taken out by a hammerhead legshark.
Japan: The quirky uncle of the horror world.
Meanwhile, Tadashi has managed to catch up with Kaori, who demands that he stop running and handle the legshark. Ummm, you mean the same legshark that you've been running from this entire time? Tadashi quite logically counters that he can't fight a shark, a statement that is only confirmed when Mr. Legshark comes busting through the door like Jaws and the Kool-Aid Man had a mutant child together.
Kaori screams and cowers like the potential horror victim she is, and Tadashi picks up a floor lamp or something with the apparent goal of hitting it in the nose until it goes away. Instead, it barrels right past both of them and out the window, where it discovers the ground does not, apparently, want to be friends with it.
Thus ends the brief rampage of Bruce the legshark. May he rest in stinky pieces.
Judging by the number of legfish running around Okinawa right now, I can only imagine that this is going to get worse for Our Intrepid Protagonists. I was gratified to see Tadashi briefly attempt to put it a fight, even if he was stupidly outmatched and nothing came of it. Hey, he tried. I'm just waiting for him to haul off and yell at Kaori for being such a load, though. She deserves it, and I'm starting ot hope that she gets eaten by a zombie legfish,
Next time: Chapter Five of Gyo, wherein I can only imagine the weirdness will continue.
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