Gyo

In Gyo, a two-issue horror series from Viz, a mysterious, mechanical fish with a foul stench begins washing ashore in Okinawa, heralding a wave of bizarre, leg-propelled sea creatures that crawl onto land to attack. Written and illustrated by the legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito, this compact 2007–2008 story distills his signature blend of body horror and creeping dread into a tight, claustrophobic nightmare. It matters as a potent, standalone example of Ito’s ability to turn a single, absurdly grotesque concept into a genuinely unsettling tale of ecological and biological terror.