The Strange House, Volume 1 - Manga Review

When an anomaly in the design of a detached house is noticed by a prospective buyer, he brings it to the attention of a freelance occult writer he knows. The writer, from whose perspective we are seeing this story play out, is intrigued about the anomaly, but doubtful there is anything occult about it.

The writer starts questioning her doubt after an architect friend looks at the plans. He notices that there are all manner of weird anomalies in the detached house's design. This gives rise to some strange and unsettling ideas and theories from him about how and why those anomalies are there...

When I started the first volume of The Strange House, I had no idea of what I was in for. The core concept of a house having a sealed room, one that has no windows or doors allowing for either ingress or egress, was vague and confounding enough to get me curious over whether there would be a natural or a supernatural explanation behind it.

Having finished that first volume, I still have no idea of what is or is not going on with, or in, that damn detached house. I just know that I have to read the second volume, so I can find out what, if anything, will happen next. 

Even though it is made very clear that there is something very wrong and very weird going on here, whether it has anything to with the house, or if it is just overactive imaginations gone wild, remains to be seen.

All I can share, for now, is that the first volume of The Strange House grabbed my attention and gave my nerves a wee-bit of rattling. I recommend it.