Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

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As someone who lives with a fair amount of books in the house, “Library Vision” hits a bit close to home … Uzumakiis Junji Ito’s most famous work. Sinister spirals have begun to appear everywhere in a small town. These spirals drive strange obsessions to the point that it ruins their life. Other instances show spiral-themed horrors, which incorporate a variety of terrifying and creative body contortions. But as lively and gruesome as these stories can be, and as witty and self-deprecating as their artist comes across in his commentaries, there is a sadness in this book that accrues from all the doom sagas that Itō has selected. "Honored Ancestors" (purportedly 1997) is the darkest thing in Shiver, following an amnesiac girl's interactions with the sunny classmate who insists that he used to be her boyfriend. His impression is that amnesia is good, in a way, because you can relive all the fun things in life for the first time; the girl, though, is overcome with anxiety and nightmares. There is good reason for that, because the boy's intentions are not pure, and the philosophical conflict of memory loss as terrifying vs. hopeful soon uncoils into a grotesque meditation on women as necessary chattel: wombs incubating the preservation of tradition -- cultural 'memory' -- as physical issue. Nobody escapes from this situation unscathed, including ruminating Itō himself, whose commentary is startlingly frank: The Hanging Balloons (首吊り気球), 2000 [44] – (adapted from The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons)

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All of Junji Ito's manga works, from 1987 to 2022

Collects: Used Record, Shiver, Fashion Model, Hanging Blimp, Marionette Mansion, Painter, The Long Dream, Honored Ancestors, Greased, and Fashion Model: Cursed Frame The series was inspired by Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. In an interview, Ito mentioned, “He masterfully captured the essence of fear in the form of a man-eating shark. I thought it would be even greater to capture that fear in a man-eating shark that goes on land as well as sea.” Ghosts of Prime Time” and “Splendid Shadow Song” both feature some decidedly odd concepts in terms of menace. Definitely not typical horror fare.

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