The Twilight Zone Gets Modern Psychological Twist in Haunting Manga

The Twilight Zone Gets Modern Psychological Twist in Haunting Manga

Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac is just like The Twilight Zone except the manga revisits the same unsettling place and experience with different characters.

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The Twilight Zone Gets Modern Psychological Twist in Haunting Manga

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac chapter 9!

The manga Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac asks if it’s possible to retell the same episode from The Twilight Zone but with different characters and still impact the reader as profoundly as the first story. The answer is a resounding “yes.”

The psychological aspect of The Twilight Zone TV series captivated viewers during its original airing from 1959 to 1964 and continues to enrapture audiences to this day, inspiring multiple spin-offs and separate series including Black Mirror. The Twilight Zone is celebrated for how it masterfully employs an episodic format with separate individual stories that explore characters as they undergo otherworldly experiences that impact them on a psychological level – and usually they can’t be rationally explained with science or common sense.

Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac is similar in many respects to a particular episode of The Twilight Zone. Every story is told in two chapters and begins with the main character encountering a mysterious company known as the Revolving Lantern Corporation that has the uncanny ability of appearing in places where it wasn’t before. A woman always comes out to greet her soon-to-be clients promptly and invites them to share their name and date of birth in return for undergoing a pleasant and therapeutic experience. What she means by this is that they can watch DVDs of their entire lives from the moment of their birth to the present, where each year is captured in one disc. But that’s not all. Her clients can also watch the lives of anyone they wish so long as they are able to provide that person’s name and date of birth.

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Each person who enters the Revolving Lantern Corporation is usually undergoing some sort of crisis and come to a stunning realization, sometimes even an epiphany, upon watching their own and other people’s lives. The first volume details five separate stories. The first follows a man whose wife and daughter died and his struggles living without them. But as the widower literally watches his life unfold, the reader soon learns a dark secret about his past. He comes into possession of new information as well when watching the video of another person close to him that reveals the truth of how his family perished.

The second installment tells the story of a musician who gave up on his dreams after acquiring the debt of another. When reliving his memories, the ex-musician soon notices a mysterious person who continues to turn up again and again, someone he thought he just met for the first time a few hours ago. The third episode follows a woman who is about to marry the man of her dreams, but is shocked when she later sees that her fiancé’s life consists of only one DVD. The next tale documents the meeting of three strangers who embark on a grisly trip to commit suicide together but soon come to learn everything there is to know about their new companions. The volume’s final story is actually told from the perspective of a cat whose owner is mistreated by her mother-in-law and who actually stumbles upon her pet’s private session.

Ironically, Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac’s entire premise takes a great deal of inspiration from an essential Twilight Zone episode, “What’s In The Box?” where a TV repairman fixes a couple’s busted television in such a way that the only channel shows the husband’s indiscretions against his wife. It just goes to show that some of The Twilight Zone’s stories are so profound that one episode is literally capable of inspiring a litany of adaptations. Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac’s stories, while similar, explore new territory, from infidelity and jealousy, crimes against strangers and redemption to damnation and broken promises, to misunderstandings. And, of course, they all evoke different feelings and reactions. Some endings are tragic. Others are creepy and showcase the very best (and worst) of horror. Then there are those that are bittersweet, happy and even hopeful. But much like the best episodes of The Twilight Zone, all the chapters of Soumatoh Kabushikigaishac make the reader think.

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