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Published: 2012-10-03 11:45:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 2990; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 59
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[link]"Gnashing Stench"
CLASS: BIOCONSTRUCT
These heaving, plodding hybrid beasts were present in small numbers throughout the original Junjo [link] legion, their minds even emptier than their smaller brethren. While similar to the Junjo in most respects, their relatively healthier and more muscular forms are geared more for physical destruction and produce infectious agents at a far slower rate, retaining gases in specialized bladders until they can be belched forth at a critical moment.
A Gashunk's gargantuan teeth are laced with metal, their name said to have been derived from the distinct sound of their jaws closing and opening.
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This is why I like your monsters. You wouldn't want to run into them in a dark alley, but they're also unspeakably hilarious.
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i don't get all the jokes I've seen about sharks breaking down doors.
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The original "Junjo" is named after Junji Ito, the horror manga artist and roughly based on his manga series GYO, which involves, among other things, rotten sea creatures crawling out of the ocean on spidery legs and spreading a plague that more or less ends the world.
One of its most famous scenes though is the giant, dead, walking shark, whose sound effect for walking is written as "GASHUNK, GASHUNK." This is first seen when it breaks through a door into a house, and since it's not a sound effect used in any other comic ever again the internet decided it was specifically the sound of a shark breaking down a door.
Last year I wrote a top ten of Junji Ito monsters in my Halloween blogs!
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I think the "GASHUNK" sound is supposed to be a mechanical noise. I can easily imagine the sound in my head.
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thanks for the info! i actually haven't started following your Halloween blogs until this year. up until recently, i didn't even know you did Halloween blogs.
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Aw! I thought you'd been commenting on my website articles for a long while now, but I do have a bad memory
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no, i have, i just haven't followed your Halloween blogs before. i guess i just focused mainly on mortasheen, and your articles. i haven't even started following your normal blog until recently.
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Not sure what you mean actually...I call them "halloween blogs" but they're really articles the same as all my other ones, you can find the Junji Ito one and others I did for Halloween on the same page as all my other monster reviews
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well i actually knew about them, i just wasn't that interested in them at the time. i was more preoccupied by your top tens, biology articles and non Halloween related articles. by now, I've actually read them all, and that's what got me to follow your Halloween articles this year. also, for almost ALL of last year, i haven't had any access to the internet, so that's probably why i had missed it.
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Really though my Halloween stuff is just more monster top tens and monster mini-lists that I just shove under a "Halloween" category by focusing kinda vaguely almost on a Halloween theme...which is really the theme my whole site already has
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yeah i know, but all i'm trying to say is I've never actually followed your Halloween blogs before, because i didn't know you did anything special for Halloween. i used to focus mainly on your regular articles, until i finally got bored and checked out what Mortasheen was, which made me curious about some of the other cool things on your site.
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heehee - of COURSE a walking shark is called a Gashunk XD
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I figure it's involved in the storage and dispersal of its noxious fumes! Not sure if there'd be another one on the other side. Probably not. I like asymmetry!
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I'm looking forward to your next creature: the 'DRR DRR'.
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Named after the unmistakable sound of a shark breaking down a door?
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nah they're just closely related!
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