Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

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The premise is terrifying enough, but the horror comes from several places. The concept of a silent yet enormous hunter, and the innocent people trying to evade them, makes for an adrenaline rush of a story. No Longer Human is a novel inspired by Dazai’s own life, experiences, and behaviours. It shows us a man who feels as though he exists outside of the human experience.

Also in the usual Ito style, his way of drawing facial expressions and emotions is consistently outstanding in Sensor. You can’t talk about horror mangawithout mentioning Junji Ito. He’s a modern master. Since 1987, he’s been disturbing readers with short and long-form stories that blend several subgenres, such as psychological and body horror.

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A long-delayed four-part animated miniserieswill be produced in 2023 in conjunction with Toonami and IG Production. Another reason that Junji Ito’s Cat Diary is so unique is that it is one of the most unique uses of Ito’s own imagination and approach to horror art.

Got to admit that the unflinching focus on schoolgirl or teenage girl protagonists seemed very pervy, eventually (but he does draw them beautifully!) The story follows a teenage girl who is brought home to meet her potential boyfriend’s dad. Prior to doing this, she has been haunted by dreams of a giant caterpillar.Junji Ito manga comes in three distinct forms. The first is his longform graphic novels. These are longer stories that tell extended, interconnected horror stories.

The depths of the ocean, the endless reaches of space, and even our planet’s remote and mysterious past. A baron of body horror, illustrator and author Junji Ito is to manga what director David Cronenberg is to film. His long-form stories such as Tomie, Uzumaki and Gyo are modern classics of the genre that have captivated comic book horror fans the world round. That having been said, Ito’s introduction to me and many others was by way of his short stories. Horrific tales such as “The Enigma of Amigara Fault,” the Fragments of Horror anthology and the stories collected within Shiver, namely “Honored Ancestors.” There is also an author’s notes at the end of each story, explaining abit about the creative process and thought behind each of them. Also, there is some concept art sketches. I liked this further insight into how these horrifying tales came to be. As a brief member of the Japanese Communist Party, Dazai could be seen as the anti-Mishima. His legacy as a wartime writer and post-war author is legendary, and No Longer Human is often touted as his masterpiece.Madonna is the second story from Junji Ito’s The Liminal Zone; a collection of four standalone tales that were unrestrained by the magazine format and therefore as long as he wanted them to be. The enigma draws public attention and news crews begin to report on it. Soon enough, people are coming from all over to see the human-shaped holes for themselves. Alternatively, you could start with some of the best-known stories, such as Uzumaki, Tomie, and the Shivershort story collection and then branch off from there. Will there be more Junji Ito stories? The second is his adaptations. In recent years, Ito has chosen to (or possible been asked to) adapt a handful of classic novels by Japanese and Western writers from prose into manga. In Sensor‘s first chapter, Kyoko Byakuya finds herself at the foot of Mount Sengoku, amidst the gentle falling of golden volcanic hair.

After reading such Junji Ito manga stories as The Thing That Drifted Ashore and The Enigma of Emigara Fault, the Lovecraft influence can be seen as clear as day. While other stories (see below) showcase even more bonkers imaginative flexing than this one, Hanging Balloons is arguably Ito’s most unsettling and outright horrifying manga short story. Even the Junji Ito manga that doesn’t fit neatly into the horror genre still has elements of the uncanny and the unsettling in its illustration. A cursed record that dooms its listeners. A mysterious jade carving that bestows a horrific disease on those who possess it. A monstrous fashion model. Ghostly blimps of the dead. A crazed puppeteer who turns his family into marionettes. A muse that drives painters mad. A man whose dreams distort time and, eventually, his body. A man determined to carry on his family’s lineage, no matter what. And a nightmarishly greasy house and the poor family the grease envelopes.

The story starts at an exhibition for the titular painter, Mitsuo Mori, who has had newfound success in his Nana series of paintings. The praise is unanimous, that is until he meets the mysterious Tomie. She insists that if you look closely you can see, “she’s clearly a dimwit.” The criticism sits with Mori, even as he’s painting the next piece in the Nana series. A collection of short stories which have no logic except dream logic (i.e. no logic) but a whole lot of eidetic disgusting body horror and very crazy zoned-out dialogue – I will give you a flavour Ito shows a little self-restraint here when it comes to his monstrous depictions of horror, but his unique style still shines through. If you’ve been interested in the work of Osamu Dazai, Ito’s adaptation is a fine place to begin. It blends the soreness of Dazai’s writing with Ito’s own uncanny and unsettling art masterfully. Originally published in three volumes and now available in a single collection, Uzumaki is a staggering work of horror fiction.