Whatever is causing it, it’s out of control. Then animals are getting the creepy bug legs and smell, and then people are.

The uncle loses his arm to this experiments, and soon his arm is running around with legs and carrying that awful stench.

In other words, the fish and shark with legs are not trying to attack anyone - somehow it’s the germs that’s causing all this. The uncle theorizes this could be a response to germs (specifically biological weapons) the Japanese Imperial Army made during World War II. Tadashi and Kaori try to escape inland, and Tadashi talks with his scientist uncle about what’s going on. (Junji Ito, the creator, said that Gyo was inspired by Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, and he wanted to do “Jaws on land.”) More and more sea life with legs come onshore, but instead of being like something out of an evolution textbook, they look creepy and they bring problems wherever they go. A great white shark with legs comes onshore. He kills it and puts it into a plastic bag, although it keeps moving and keeps trying to come after them.Īfter that, things get worse. Tadashi tracks the stench to a very strange creature he finds in the house - a fish with mechanical, buglike legs. Tadashi is peeved by how close some sharks get to him while he’s out scuba diving, yet when they return to the beach house, Kaori can’t stop complaining about an awful death smell. Tadashi and Kaori are taking a vacation at Tadashi’s uncle’s beach house in Okinawa, but things quickly turn into a nightmare.

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