She runs away, horrified, but he and his bats chase her. It turns out that he has imported vampire bats into Japan he lets them drink his blood, which they then inject into the woman to give her more vitality. He is significantly skinnier and drawn, telling her that he won't eat until she does. She waves the man off, but she soon sees him again. She is approached by a stranger, a man about her age, who implores her to end her starvation diet. She shrinks to an unhealthy weight but ignores everyone who tells her to eat. In "Blood Sucking Darkness," a young woman stops eating after her boyfriend leaves her for someone else. To explain, I'm going to ruin the first story in the collection for you. It is plenty creepy, however, in large part because the narratives don't follow the forms American readers expect. I don't know if "Smashed" is representative of Junji's other manga many of the customer reviews on suggest this isn't his best work. Hino is known for horror manga with titles such as "Hell Baby" and "Panorama of Hell " Tsutsui is an 84-year-old actor and celebrated science fiction novelist whose work challenges Japanese norms some of his books have been turned into manga and anime. I know little about the work of others Junji names as inspirations, but if you're a manga fan, you may recognize them: Hideshi Hino, Shinichi Koga and Yasutaka Tsutsui. Lovecraft as one of his influences that comes across clearly to anyone familiar with the late author's strange existential and metaphysical writings, such as "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Call of Cthulhu."
"Smashed" is a collection of 13 short stories, some better than others.
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