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“ | Dear boy... | „ |
~ The Neighbour calling out to Hiroshi. |
Numage, or better known as The Neighbour, is a mysterious entity and the main antagonist in the The Window Next Door manga by acclaimed Japanese horror-mangaka Junji Ito. She is a perverted, deformed yet terrifying neighbour of the main protagonist Hiroshi, taking a liking to him, the neighbour seeks to "have fun" with him by any means possible by breaching his privacy to trespass his room through his window as both their windows are facing each other.
Biography[]
The protagonist, Hiroshi Sakaguchi and his family move into a new house into new neighbourhood. They are curious and suspicious about the house next door, which has only one window and one door. Their neighbor tells them whilst he has never seen her, it is said the inhabitant, is a middle-aged woman, is never seen or spoken to; but he has spotted a figure moving about at the window during the night. When Hiroshi goes to bed he hears an eerie voice calling to him and sees a woman with a hideous, monstrous, cadaverous face and clawed, bony hands asking him to come visit her and "play", saying her door is open and she's waiting.
Hiroshi goes back to sleep, dismissing it as a dream in the morning, though he wonders if her door really was open. But the following night he hears the voice again, now upset that he didn't visit when she prepared "snacks" and "goodies" for him. He looks out of the window to see Numage trying to climb across to his room by pushing a long, rusty pole into his open window. Numage sinisterly asks him to hold the pole as she comes over
The terrified Hiroshi yells "what are you doing" and strikes the pole down to the ground, quickly running into his parents' room, calling for help. When the parents arrive to his room, the neighbor's window is closed and her room is unlit, and thus the parents are not sure whether the woman is real, discussing the possibility that it might've been a nightmare. After some discussion the family finally agrees that Hiroshi will switch rooms with his parents.
Numage doesn't reappear for the next few days, even Hiroshi starts to wonder if the monstrous woman really existed and reluctantly eventually moves back to his old room. When he goes to sleep, Numage appears once more and mentions its been a long time since she has seen him. This time, the lady says she will reach over to his house with her hands, hoping to knock on his window and be given entry.
However to the hag's dismay, she can't reach Hiroshi's window. But, she does tell him that she will be right over soon and does not explain any further. Hiroshi is enraged, thinking that if he calls his father, she'll just disappears, so decides he'll wait till she reaches his window and then push Numage to her death once she gets to his window. Hiroshi guards the window all night, but she never arrives.
In the morning, it is revealed by Hiroshi he has found that the window itself has magically and ridiculously grown out from her house towards his own. Hiroshi surmises that by the twilight of this night, she'll break in his window and have her "fun" with him.
Hiroshi thinks its no longer safe, but thankfully he now has proof to show to his family about the woman. His parents are already making preparations to move to another house. It isn't stated what happens next, but there is a good chance that Hiroshi escapes before she reaches him.
Appearance[]
The woman has a lanky silhouette with her red hair in a bob cut which in contrast to the rest of her, is lush and neat. Her grey skin is corpse-like with her entire body covered in warts, crusts and various strange growths. Her lips are chapped and filled with protruding jagged and mismatched teeth, dripping drool occasionally coming out of her mouth. Her eyes are narrow, yellow and distinctly inhuman.
Her clothing is excessively opulent; a fancy dress, golden heart shaped earrings, a pearl necklace, bracelets around her arms and multiple rings on each of her fingers.
Personality[]
Numage is simply the ultimate personification of an abomination who only god knows what she would do to Hiroshi when she reaches his room although she describes it as "having fun" it is implied she does have an unknown sinister agenda as well.
It is also implied by her demeanor that she is lusting over Hiroshi, who is a handsome young teenager which does eludes to her wanting to "have fun" with him. Regardless, she is straight up the definition of disturbing, creepy and treacherous. She also frequently asks to see Hiroshi's face. She never appears when his parents occupied the room, indicating her interest lies specifically in Hiroshi.
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