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Portus Vol. 1 (Portus)
by
Jun Abe
Asami Kawakami is a 17 year old highschool girl and is a member of her school's art club, which is run by her friend and adviser, Keigo Sawa. For some time, her best friend Chiharu hasn't been answering her cell phone and has also stopped coming to school. One day Chiharu shows up at the art club and says that the reason she was gone was because of a video game, and t...more
Paperback, 232 pages
Published
October 9th 2007
by VIZ Media LLC
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Had high expectations for this one and was let down. Cool concept, poor execution. It reads like those slew of "ring" and "grudge" j-horror films which came out a while back. It has its good moments, mostly in the buildup chapters, but the climax and resolution suck.
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the type of person who thinks that butterflies are their dead friends come to visit
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Portus starts off promisingly enough with the requisite urban legend. Character one says, “Did you hear about the video game that kills people?” Character two says, “Yes, it came out for the Famicom in the 1980s and was pretty popular and I don’t know anyone who died from it.” And then character three slinks in like Excel Saga’s Hyatt and whispers, “Guess what I played last night.” From that point on it turns into a Ju-on/Ringu hybrid, not that those franchises haven’t milked the goodwill from o...more
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