Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

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Ito’s work is popular across the globe, but especially in the United States, where his influence can be seen in many contemporary artists’ works. Ito is also often referenced in Western pop culture. For instance, his work was referenced in the TV show Steven Universe, when characters go into human-shaped holes. Fashion Model” is a story about a screenwriter who is deeply disturbed by a woman who doesn’t reach his bare minimum beauty standard. The final two stories in this list of Junji Ito manga can each be found in different places. This first story, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, can be read as a bonus final chapter in the book Gyo. While Ito’s styles of storytelling and drawing are far removed from Shelley’s writing and themes, the two still managed to marry very successfully.

However, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. That smaller and more subtle approach is actually rather refreshing for Ito. It makes the story more interesting, relying more on the slow buildup and world-building to provide the atmosphere. When the end does hit, the art isn’t so over the top or overdrawn, making the surprise feel more eerie and dreadful. While it’s not the best written story (again, this is clearly Ito’s early days), it’s definitely one of the most interesting stories he has ever produced. Not a bad way to start the collection off. What happens when a fashion model(creepy looks and disgusting smile??) starts following amature filmmakers? This was obvious and creepy. Put simply, Junji Ito’s Cat Diary is a short book about Ito’s very real personal experience with becoming the sudden owner of two cats: Yon and Mu. Esta antologia incluye diez relatos, el body horror esta muy presente, al igual que el gore y una ambientacion espeluznante. Una antologia con un nivel medio, algunas ilustraciones son realmente demasiado graficas para mi gusto personal.Fun fact: When I was a kid watching Return of the Jedi, I thought that Yoda telling Luke that he was 900 years old meant that he was a human who happened to have lived for that long.

While his stories of terror share much in common with Lovecraft, Umezu, and even writers like Kobo Abe and Stephen King, it’s Ito’s distinct ability to bring what he imagines to life in staggering, chilling detail. There’s a sense that these writers dare to describe what should never be described. What takes Junji Ito’s manga one step beyond even the stories of H.P. Lovecraft is that he dares to draw them as well as write them. Of course this is all disgusting, but not yet to the campy extreme of horror that Ito usually delivers. That comes as the story progresses. Yui’s brother Goro develops a horrendously bad case of acne from living amidst the grease, and in one of the most disgusting comic panels I’ve ever seen he squeezes his face so that several dozen rivulets of puss all drip down into his sister’s face beneath him.

Greased

In these stories giant faces of real people appear in the sky with nooses dangling from them, and they then try to find and hang the person whose face they have. Or people get a disease where you get holes all over. Until reading this collection, Junji Ito existed as a myth. His intense, otherworldly horror stories had created this singular presence that was known even among the biggest manga newbs. Originally published as Travelogue of the Succubus, Sensor is Junji Ito’s take on cosmic horror. It involves cults, a omnipotent being, and more familiar elements of Ito’s work like body horror and obsession. It’s an ordinary tale; the kind of thing that has happened to many of us (when I lived in Shanghai, my partner one day brought home two tiny terrapins she had rescued. Suddenly, they were our responsibility). Dazai’s influence on Ito is apparent not only through the very existence of this manga adaptation, but also for the fact that Tomie Yamazaki — a woman with whom Dazai famously ran away from his wife and family, and who later committed suicide by drowning alongside Dazai — shares her name with Ito’s first manga publication.

All four of the tales in The Liminal Zone are worth reading, but Madonna stands out as something unique thanks to its leanings on Western religious horror and guilt. Since the publication of Smashed, we also now have Deserter, a collection of Junji Ito manga from his earlier days as a rising star. The now defunct ComicsOne published some of Junji Ito’s early work. However, these editions are hard to come by and it’s likely that you won’t encounter these. Where can I find Junji Ito manga?

Used Records

Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Fashion Model: cuando la estetica rige la vida, sin dudas Ito hace una critica social usando el terror y lo grotesco a traves de este relato. 3.5/5

Before becoming a full-time writer, and during the writing and release of Tomie, Junji Ito worked as a dental assistant. A long-delayed four-part animated miniserieswill be produced in 2023 in conjunction with Toonami and IG Production. With the exception of “Cursed Frame,” which comes at the end of the collection, the rest of the stories are uniformly strong: “Marionette Mansion” is a Goosebumps story turned up to 11, “Painter” is one of Ito’s finest Tomie stories, “The Long Dream” reads like a sleep-science take on Stephen King’s “The Jaunt” and “Honored Ancestors” turns familial pressure to procreate into monstrous, literal form. “Greased,” the penultimate story, will be divisive: some will love the all-consuming grime on display while others (this reader included) will have a tough time with the pus-covered grotesquery. Used Record or Second-Hand Record (from House of the Marionettes, あやつりの屋敷 Ayatsuri no Yashiki), a story about people fighting over the ownership of a record that has a singer's singing as they died recorded on it.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.” Yuuji watches as Rina's doctor comes to visit her, but she screams and slams the door in his face. Yuuji half-remembers the face of the doctor who attended Yuuji's grandfather; and comes to suspect they are the same person. He debates over whether or not to tell Rina's family that his grandfather is responsible for the curse on their daughter. Hideo encourages Yuuji to keep quiet about it, but Yuuji resolves he must tell the truth. As he is about to go over to their house, he sees Rina in the garden outside, apparently recovered. She is calm and happy, and her skin looks completely normal. The story centers around two hospital patients suffering from seemingly psychological maladies. The first, Mami, is a young woman whose unidentified illness fills her every waking moment with the dread of death. The other patient, Mukoda, claims his dreams elongate each night, as he feels days and months slipping by from just a normal night’s rest. Ito’s works have been adapted multiple times. In addition to the Tomie adaptations, one of the most notable adaptations is the horror anime anthology series Junji Ito Collection. This 12-episode series adapts iconic Ito stories, including “Fashion Model,”“Shiver,” and “Smashed,” among many others. 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: