Line #15 YMMV/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** "THIS HOLE WAS MADE FOR ME!"
3	** It also doesn't help that "getting your hole" is a Scottish slang term for sex.
4	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
5	** The ancient people's reasons for building the holes. Scientists on-site note that it would be unnatural for a mountain to have this many people-shaped crevices, and find evidence that they were man-made. Is it a punishment for the modern people of Japan, a relic from potentially punishing criminals, or something unknown?
6	** Owaki's hole only appears after he realizes that Yoshida has gone into hers. He's been having nightmares about being forced to go inside the hole as a punishment. Perhaps he succumbed to the influence willingly, and was DrivenToSuicide by going into his own hole?
7	** In-universe, Owaki posits that only lonely people are drawn to the holes. He reassures Yoshida that he's not going to leave her, so she won't have to worry about being alone at night. The story doesn't confirm if he is right or not.
8	* GatewaySeries: For Creator/JunjiIto works and horror manga in general.
9	* HilariousInHindsight:
10	** Being written by huge anime fans, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' would include the concept of a "Kindergarten" wherein alien Gems are "born" through coming out of holes embedded in the mountains shaped like themselves. This led to [[{{Pun}} gems]] like [[http://i.imgur.com/R7Ui750.gif this gif]].
11	** Also, Yoshida is in an [[MemeticMutation A-pose]] on the cover.
12	** In 2015, some burglars snuck into the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatton_Garden_safe_deposit_burglary Hatton Garden underground vault]] by drilling some small holes in the shape of a human's cross-section into the wall and squeezing through it. BBC News tried to demonstrate how the men got in by having a reporter squeeze through the small hole, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYtXy1JF74 only for the reporter to get stuck in it himself.]]
13	* InferredHolocaust: It's unknown how many people were compelled to enter the hole before the government intervened. There are implications that the site was eventually closed off, to prevent visitors from succumbing to the same psychic hold. Even so, considering there were dozens on day one, the numbers couldn't have been pretty.
14	* ItWasHisSled: The ending, which reveals that the holes deform as the person progresses deeper into them, eventually twisting them into the shape of a grotesque abomination. We don't see that until the end of the manga, but the MemeticMutation it inspired lead to it being one of the most well-known aspects of the story, even among those who haven't read it.
15	* MemeticMutation:
16	** DRR...DRR...DRR...
17	** [[AccidentalInnuendo This hole! It was made for me!]]
18	** S-Sir! It's slowly coming this way!
19	* NarmCharm: Manages to be simultaneously [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] and [[BlackComedy hilarious]].
20	* TearJerker:
21	** [[spoiler: It's hard to not feel sorry for Nakagaki during Owaki's first nightmare where he gets stuck while screaming for help. It gets worse in the ending where the deformed human [[WasOnceAMan could possibly be him]].]]
22	--->[[spoiler: "S-Someone! Anyone! Help me!"]]
23	** [[spoiler: The scene where Owaki breaks down in tears right after Yoshida's disappearance also counts as this. He then enters his hole, with a ThousandYardStare as if resigning himself to his fate.]]
24	* 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.
25	** It escalates the horror -- something horrible happens not just to eccentric strangers, but to somebody you like (both Owaki and the readers).
26	** It builds up to Owaki's DespairEventHorizon. Despite his best efforts, the girl he likes committed herself to a gruesome fate... [[NothingIsScarier probably]]. In that moment of grief, Owaki is extra vulnerable to the compulsion of the holes. But, horrifically, the event horizon is physical, not mental. Like suicide, somebody succumbs to ''temporary'' intense emotions and makes a terrible, irreversible decision.

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