Dr. Ando who has yet to recover from his son's death at sea, conducts an autopsy on an old friend who has died under unusual circumstances. The corpse, that of cynical philosophy professor Ryuji Takayama, has something to tell him. And Ryuji isn't the only one who chooses to make a reappearance in this story.
You don't know what the RING is yet. The terms of the curse of the videotape undergo a jaw-dropping reconfiguration in this novel, the horror master's stunning reinvention of his own bests...
Completely different from its precursor
Instead of a journalist and his friend in リング, we here have a coroner and his friend hunting to solve the mystery.
And as scientists they use scientific methods, most of the time, like autopsy, cryptography, electron microscopy, up to gene sequencing, etc. You will even find a list of which DNA base triplet corresponds to which amino acid inside of this book.
As in リング, you'll get horror only in homeopathic doses, so you definitely don’t have to read this book in bright daylight. It is more