His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. The story progresses through ‘A Woman in Distress’, ‘Shadow’ and ‘Screams in the Night’; Ryusuke, sometimes joined by his would-be girlfriend Midori and friend Tejima, attempts to identify the ‘beautiful boy’, and is eventually suspected of telling the fateful fortunes himself. He doesn’t appear in ‘The Boy in White’, which is instead narrated by a man who comes to the city having heard rumours of its multiple suicides. Printed in English for North America by VIZ on August 18, 2020 - ISBN-10: 1974715477 as "Venus in the Blind Spot" As with the other times I read Mr. Ito's stories, my sanity seriously, honestly is not doing well and my level of mental health is also dropping. Despite the stupidity of it, I was still initially hooked. However, as I kept going on, the story eventually became very repetitive and annoying. Some of the dialogues were also really cringey to read.

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The imagery or the stories are never scary though - Ito’s horror is so absurdly over the top that it’s too silly to take seriously. Especially all the schoolgirl suicides - they all just happen to carry box cutters and they all decide to kill themselves within moments of the beautiful boy telling them a dumb fortune? It’s dark humour but that to me is more comedic than horrific. Oct 28 NBA Star Rui Hachimura Gets Animated and Possibly Saves the World in New Crayon Shin-chan Episode Published in North America by VIZ on April 16, 2019 as "Smashed" - omitting "Greased", likely because it was also recently published in "Shiver". Finish cataloging missing information for releases in Junji Ito Stories (example Junji Ito Stories#"The Face Burglar"

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Released by VIZ as Remina for North America, omitting the extra story Billions Alone, likely because it was recently published in Venus in the Blind Spot. Finally, there’s ‘Memories of Real Poop’ (yes, really – also known as ‘A Shit to Remember’, which is a much better title, come on!), and it’s one of those short slice-of-life stories that sometimes make their way into these collections; a (possibly autobiographical?) account of a boy obsessing over buying fake plastic shit.

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Junji Ito was born in the Gifu prefecture of Japan in 1963. He was inspired from a young age by both his older sisters' drawings and the work of Kazuo Umezu. Ito first began writing and drawing manga as a hobby while working as a dental technician in the early 1990s. In 1987, he submitted a short story to Gekkan Halloween that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize (with Umezu himself as one of the judges). This story was later serialized as Tomie.Ribs woman Wires were used in place of ribs to make music, and the picture of a woman revealing her ribs will stay with me for a long time. (4 stars) I love Junji Ito, in case you haven't been following along, and having any complaints about getting hardcover editions as nice as the ones from Viz feels a little like the very definition of looking a gift horse in the mouth but also the decisions that Viz keeps making about what, exactly, the bring out remain frequently perplexing. Judging solely by the cover images, both Hazard's Italian Tomie translation and the Spanish Tomie series from La Cúpula are based on Tomie Zen, but this has not yet been confirmed.

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My only complaint is that some of my questions are still left unanswered. Open ends can be fun in this genre, but I’m still so curious about a lot that was left ambiguous! The Mansion of Phantom Pain is also a decent story about a young man who gets a job at a rich person’s house where he has to relieve the man’s son’s pain that has somehow, invisibly filled the mansion. This one’s a good example of Ito’s unique imagination - it’s something only he could come up with. I was hooked waiting to see where he’d take the story, and it was mostly interesting, though, again the ending is weak. The Kafkaesque autobiography of a diplomat who compares himself to Grigori Rasputin, and what happens after he gets caught up in a political purge during the early 2000s. Written by Nagasaki Takashi, art by Junji Ito. Oct 25 Yearning Teens, Frustrated Romance, Pretty Skies — Is There Anything Else to Makoto Shinkai?

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The Séance was my favourite of the two, and these stories do go to dark places, but I just cannot connect with the characters of the siblings. Something about them annoys me. I love all things ghostly though, and Ito’s signature style, so will give these stories 3 stars. Macdonald, Christopher (November 14, 2005). "Shibito no Koiwazurai Live Action Movie 9". Anime News Network . Retrieved May 22, 2022. The entire atmosphere of the main story is what really held me; it was eerie and unsettling in a very subtle way, with brief bursts of that in-your-face horror some people love. I really enjoyed the main character and his crush as they tried piecing together the clues behind the boy at the crossroads (competent horror leads are the best!!) Siren Maniacs" is a supplemental analysis book for the PlayStation 2 survival horror stealth video game "Siren" (サイレン) published by Sony Computer Entertainment. This book contains the one shot "Demon's Voices" (魔声, Mahou) drawn by Junji Ito. The main character Ryusuke told a woman’s fortune at the crossroad when he was asked as a young boy. That ended in tragedy and he is haunted by the guilt. Especially as he grew up to know her niece. But, is the past still haunting him at the crossroads?

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Content warnings for: graphic and frequent portrayals of suicide, violence, self-harm, and murder, including infanticide and a woman forcing her own miscarriage through trauma The Rib Woman is the worst story of the collection. A young woman wants a more shapely figure so opts for rib removal surgery which somehow leads to a rib ghost?! And the book closes out with a short piece of nonfiction where Ito recalls the time he bought fake joke poop as a kid, which was rubbish and a pointless addition. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. Next up in this collection are the two Strange Hikizuri Siblings stories, Narumi’s Boyfriend and The Séance. The latter half of the book includes two new stories featuring the Hikizuri Siblings, a sort of "Addams Family" but even more macabre. Most of the family members have grotesque designs with the exception of 14-year-old Nanami, who instead appears attractive but constantly threatens to commit suicide to get what she wants from others. Their chapters are primarily played as a dark comedy. Speaking of, it's probably a good idea to keep in mind that suicide is featured prominently in this volume. The Handsome Ghost chapters focus heavily on suicide and include very graphic depictions. The possibility of suicide happens so often that it honestly loses a lot of its impact. You can only show so many boxcutters before it ceases to be a serious threat anymore. There's also a one-shot chapter towards the end that focuses on dieting and body image in an extreme way.The two stories of The Strange Hikizuri Siblings are the best in the book in part because Ito leans into the humour that’s more or less always there in his work, rather than try to make it seem only horrific. The Hikizuri family are a group of weird nutters, almost like a Japanese Addams family, who, in the first story, decide to mess with their sister’s new boyfriend, and, in the second, the younger brother tries to usurp the older brother’s role as head of the family by faking a seance. The stories are fun and unpredictable and the Hikizuri’s are amusingly bonkers. There’s also a pair of manga about ‘the strange Hikizuri siblings’ – ‘Narumi’s Boyfriend’ and ‘The Séance’ – which have to rank among my least favourites of all the Ito I’ve read; this type of humour either works for you or really doesn’t, and I’m in the latter camp. (The loose ends left by ‘The Séance’ led me to assume there are further Hikizuri tales, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, making this another case of an oddly inconclusive ending.) Fukuda, Rika (April 12, 2013). "ネムキ後継誌Nemuki＋創刊記念、「百鬼夜行抄」今市子インタビュー". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc . Retrieved May 22, 2022.