History Manga / TheEnigmaofAmigaraFault

%%* TokenRomance: It was ''really'' unnecessary for Owaki and Yoshida to [[KissingDiscretionShot get together]], though it's possible that it happened so that we'd get a giant HopeSpot, before things get worse.

** [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror What happens to the people inside the holes.]]]]
** The earlier shot [[spoiler:showing the discovery of the ''misshapen holes'']] illustrates the image [[FiveSecondForeshadowing a lot sooner.]]

* GeniusLoci: The fault itself, or whatever roams around the fault, is implied to have some degree of sentience, as its holes are able to hypnotically draw their owners into them. People who reside around the fault also have dreams that hint at the fault's origins, as well as visions of the people that entered the holes.

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Owaki sees his hole after Yoshida enters hers. With a ThousandYardStare, he enters, accepting the compulsion and inevitable fate. If he made it through all the way to the other side, while alive, it was not a pretty way to go.]]

* DaylightHorror: Most of the creepy stuff happens at daytime.

* {{Bishonen}}: Owaki's quite the looker.

* DownerEnding: Owaki sees his hole after Yoshida enters hers. With a ThousandYardStare, he enters, accepting the compulsion and inevitable fate. [[spoiler:If he made it through all the way to the other side, while alive, it was not a pretty way to go.]]

* FanDisservice: People usually undress in order to fit into the holes, and [[{{Gonk}} not all of these people are attractive]]. Owaki [[ShirtlessScene stripping to his underwear]] (or less, considering the fact that we only see him from the waist-up) would be fanservice if not for [[spoiler:what will eventually happen to him]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: In Owaki's dream, he is a man from a primitive tribe condemned to a hole for an unforgivable crime.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The other end of the hole is shown to be misshapen, which leads to the discovery of the ''severe'' FoldSpindleMutilation of the holes' victims.

* ForciblyFormedPhysique: The fate of [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unnamed_934.png the people]] who go through the tunnels.

* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler: What kind of horrific supernatural phenomenon is causing the holes to appear? We never get any answers. It just ''happens.'']]

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Yoshida is scared after showing Owaki her hole, he calms her down. Then he grabs several dozen stones and closes the hole, deliberately choosing heavy ones. He stays with her all night so that she has an incentive to not go through the hole. [[spoiler: Sadly, it doesn't work.]]

* TaughtByExperience: After a few people enter the holes and don't come out, the government finally has the sense to close off the area during the TimeSkip and ask geologists to explore the ''other side''. It comes too late for Owaki and Yoshida, but it may have saved other lives.

* GeniusLoci: The fault itself, or whatever roams around the fault, is implied to have some degree of sentience, as its holes have the hypnotic ability to draw their owners into them. People who reside around the fault also have dreams that hint at the fault's origins, as well as visions of the people that entered the holes.

* GeniusLocus: The fault itself, or whatever roams around the fault, is implied to have some degree of sentience, as its holes have the hypnotic ability to draw their owners into them. People who reside around the fault also have dreams that hint at the fault's origins, as well as visions of the people that entered the holes.

* DownerEnding: Owaki sees his hole after Yoshida enters hers. With a ThousandYardStare, he enters, accepting the compulsion and inevitable fate. [[spoiler:If he made it through all the way to the other side, while alive, it was not a pretty way to go]].

* SpoilerCover: Take a careful look at how Yoshida is drawn on the introductory image. [[spoiler:She's standing in the position of the people entering the holes, and she looks to be embedded in the mountain.]]

* MoreThanMindControl: Once a victim sees their hole, they're compelled to enter it. Not in the mindless sense of "Must. Enter. Hole.", but in the more lucid sense of, "...I don't want to do this, but I feel like I ''must''." which actually makes the whole thing ''scarier''.

* WrittenSoundEffect: The first guy's sounds (in the Japanese version) are ズズ and ズポツ, and the protagonist's is ズ…ズ…ズ. The first two are rendered "S'''S'''LL" and "'''S'''LIP", but the last is the famous, "DRR... '''DRR'''... '''''DRR'''''". Which, apart from being a nonexistent Japanese phoneme (it could be "ZU... SU... ZU"), this transliteration is so obtuse that people are apparently under the impression that this is the sound of [[spoiler:the disfigured peoples' groans or their bones being bent]] rather than [[spoiler:the sound of them sliding through the tunnels]]. These are squicky sounds, people!

* TaughtByExperience: After a few people enter the holes and don't come off, the government finally has the sense to close off the area during the TimeSkip and ask geologists to explore the ''other side''. It comes too late for Owaki and Yoshida, but it may have saved other lives.

* HopeSpot: Owaki seems to come across a solution about the holes when Yoshida finds hers. He finds heavy stones and uses them to fill her hole. Then he stays with her in her tent, reassuring her YouAreNotAlone. [[spoiler:When he falls asleep, the compulsion takes her, and she removed all the holes to enter. Oshida can't follow to rescue her because he's too big, and succumbs when he sees his hole]].

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Yoshida is scared after showing Owaki her hole, he calms her down. Then he grabs several dozen stones and closes the hole, deliberately choosing heavy ones. He stays with her all night so that she has an incentive to not go through the hole.

A short horror manga story by Creator/JunjiIto, printed as a bonus one-shot alongside his fish-zombie-apocalypse manga ''Manga/{{Gyo}}''. A boy named Owaki, and a girl, Yoshida, meet on Amigara Mountain, where an unsettling discovery has been made. Human shaped holes are scattered across the mountain, and it soon becomes clear that the holes are "calling" to the people they are shaped like. So what happens when they enter the hole? Well, you can be sure that massive amounts of {{claustrophobia}} and NightmareFuel are involved. Can be read [[http://brasscockroach.com/h4ll0w33n2007/manga/Amigara-Full/Amigara.html here]].

* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: [[spoiler: Everyone who has a hole carved for them.]]

* FoldSpindleMutilation: A rare case where [[spoiler: the mutilation ''[[AndIMustScream isn't fatal]]'']].

** [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror What happens to the people inside the holes.]]]]