While this is a Junji Ito graphic novel, he was illustrating Osamu Dazai's autobiographical book, something I only realized about halfway through when I was like, "Where's all the spoops?" While not (very) supernaturally spooky, this is one of those books where everyone is depressed and sad and not a very redeemable human. Like Gone Girl! That's a book everyone likes, but while I was reading it, and reading this, I couldn't continue, needing some sort of light or hope for the characters to hold on to when there was none.