Japanese Manga artist Junji Ito is famous for his comics that have made their unique place in the horror genre. Inspired by the likes of H P Lovecraft, Hideshi Hino, Edogawa Ranpo and many more, Ito has used simple black and white drawings to depict everyday lives of people in his stories and quickly turning it into something horrifying as natural order is met with the tiniest of disruption. Some of his most famous works include The Hanging Balloons, Glyceride, Fashion Model, Splatter Film, Tomie, Uzumaki and The Bully. His story The Enigma of Amigara Fault has perfectly captured his essence of the contrast between simplicity and perversion and an avid fan has given us something very exciting via his YouTube handle.
It is a good idea to read the story before watching this video
Jed Segovia is an animator and YouTuber who has turned the unsettling ending of The Enigma of Amigara Fault into animation. The video is less than a minute long, but will certainly bring back the terrifying story or, in case you have not read it, make you want to. Segovia stated that he had two motivating factors that led him to do this. One being his surprise at the fact that this masterpiece has not yet been adapted and the second, which is a bit odd, that he really “couldn’t resist discovering what “DRR DRR DRR” would have sounded like”. As you remember, that is the what the sound was described as in the comic while the ending took place and you should check out this animation to hear it for yourself because it will actually give you the chills.
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Synopsis (with spoilers!)
A fault is found in Amigara Mountains following an Earthquake and when two hikers, Owaki and Yoshida, arrive on site they see something extremely bizarre. Many human-shaped holes have been formed on the mountain that seem to run quite deep and soon, in a daze-like frenzy, people begin to find holes that are shaped exactly like their own silhouette and immerse themselves in it. Months later, after that seemingly mass suicide, another earthquake renders holes on another side of Amigara Mountains, but this time they are deformed, unlike the human-shaped ones before. As a worker tries to get a closer look inside one of the holes, the story ends with him finding a deformed human whose bones and muscles have been crushed to fit the hole and to his horror, the person is still alive as he can hear sounds of “DRR DRR DRR”.