Sensor is easily one of the strangest Junji Ito yarns to date, combining Christian mythos, Lovecraftian beings, and a Heaven’s Gate-style cult. It also flounders in its overall narrative purpose, something Junji Ito acknowledges in the volume’s afterword. It revisits some of the themes previously touched on in Remina, but besides a few key moments, it lacks both punch and introspection on its general implications.
The manga’s plot is totally bonkers, but in the way that is standard Ito horror. It’s amusing in what feels like reasonable expectations for suspending disbelief. I can come to grips with a volcano that emits golden filament that heightens psychic abilities after a Christian missionary and his followers are Spartan-kicked into its mouth. I can also accept a mass psychic event awakening a cosmic god from the depths of the universe. Where the book lost me is the…
