In The Miso Soup (5 points)

In the Miso Soup is the basis of any Japanese horror novel. I mean that its ideas are one that tells a deeper truth behind the novel. An idea that keeps repeating throughout the book. For instance, Kenji, the main character of the book, is a tour guide. He gets a job from a guy named Frank. In the book later, the audience discovers that Frank is a sociopath. A murderer who commits gruesome acts.

It sounds so disgusting. A revolting book in a gruesome fictional world. However, what is more, disgusting is how there are minor characters. Only two characters matter, Kenji, and Frank, only those characters. When examining the book further though, the two characters make sense as they were always meant to meet. The story cannot move forward without the two characters because they revolve around the plot. As the fictional world is a nightmare.

I believe that the book is a horror story. I honestly think that because of the elements that play in the book. Even the ending is a nightmare. I felt that nothing had been resolved. It might have been an outrage, but the story is meant to be digested. A lot of the frightening terrors. Furthermore, the title I found personally was misleading to the reader.

When eating miso soup, it tastes warm and calm. The opposite happens throughout the book. On the other hand, miso soup has a light color to it. Indicating that the story has light tones as well to the book. Frank at the time of day seems like a heavenly angel. Other times he seems like the devil, the worst ideals of society. Most horror stories do not act that way, well the ones I have read.

Another horror aspect of the book is the streets that Kenji takes tours on. He walks on some of the worst streets imaginable in Tokyo. It is filled with some of the worst things a person could imagine. Although maybe that is the idea that the author tries to bring up society's evils, that some things or people are irredeemable in their actions. In Miso the Soup is the horror that takes on a new form of Japanese horror. As the book is one hell of a ride to read.

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