It is very evident in J-Horror that the fine line of good and evil, which is found in western horror, is practically non existent. What would have been deemed as evil seems more like a situation of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In western culture horror is almost always seemingly oriented around some form of sin. If the victim has committed some sort of crime, usually religious, some evil is brought upon them as punishment. However, in j-horror the horrible chain of events is due to a hungry ghost or spirit, otherwise minding its own business and the victim stumbles into the ghost's presence.
I actually found the book to be quite dull mostly because a majority of it was focused on the every day happenings of some mans life, of which the events were nothing too exciting. I would rather of read something from that genre even though I am not a fan of western horror and it's often gory scenes. I enjoy far more the older horror stories which I feel we're more suspense than horror.
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