Incluye además comentarios del autor sobre todas las obras y una entrevista en la que Junji Ito desgrana su técnica: desde la gestación de las ideas hasta los materiales que emplea. After numerous failed attempts that she laughed off, his final masterpiece shows Tomie in all her glory with a horrendous second head growing out of her. The story Painter sees Tomie become a muse for an up-and-coming artist who desperately wants to depict her beauty. These scary short stories will shock the reader with a literal interpretation of the ills that plague modern society. At first, it seems as though the men who encounter Tomie are drawn in by her beauty, though there is something supernatural about her influence as it leads men to kill her.

Includes an interview focused on Ito’s art technique as well as commentary from the artist on each work. Ito studied and graduated from a vocational school with a degree in Dental Technology before working as a dental technician, where he worked for 3 years until he became a full-time mangaka.

However, his eyes have been replaced by stalks and his mouth is slowly vanishing as he's covered by ridged bumps all along his skin. Junji Ito's Smashed actually sets the readers up for what they're in for when Sugio takes his friends to Ogi's house to try a delicious nectar. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hair-like volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. This one image from this short story is Ito's way of showing why the uncanny balloons in the sky can't be shot down, and he does a remarkable job making this case.

These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.Ito has been cited saying that he draws the manifestation of the mind becoming reality, represented in body horror. Again, the concept of this work is difficult to explain and can only really be appreciated once read.