Posting about yanderes yesterday reminded me of something... Back when I was in middle-school I stumbled upon the (back then obscure, or "cult classic") horror manga Ibitsu. I say "back then" because now it seems to be pretty well-covered with a TV Tropes page for itself and lot of Youtube video. Though it seems everybody focuses on the "Lolita horror" part of it, or the "little sister" element, back then I stumbled upon it when I was looking for mangas about "urban legends". I jumped on Ibitsu after going off the horror movies about the Kuchisake-onna and Teke, but before reaching more horror-comedy pieces such as "Hanako and the terror of allegory" or... [pause here because I can't recall the name and Google keeps giving me Toshi Densetsu Senpai which is not this at all] the Yotsuya-senpai one, that's the one!
Anyway... Ibitsu. Left a deep and big impact on everybody, right? But there is a trivia that is usually not mentionned or much spoken about - for those curious about the history of mangas... "Ibitsu" is actually a remake. Or rather a manga heavily inspired by an older horror manga. "Zashiki-onna", the ghostly stalker-woman. It got released in English very VERY recently under the title "Hauntress". The fact it inspired Ibitsu is not even on the manga's Wikipedia page X)
[In French Zashiki onna received the poetic title of "The Lady of the Closed Room"]
