Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

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Many of these stories have been adapted as part of the 2018 Junji Ito Collection anime anthology series. It's notably lighter than other Junji Ito works, specifically because the protagonist survives her encounter with the various monsters.

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. Una recopilación brutal. Me han gustado absolutamente todos y cada uno de las historias, eso si que hay una (la del aceite) que woow!! me ha dejado completamente asqueada.Magazine". www.78magazine.com. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016 . Retrieved September 26, 2022. Ito, Junji (October 16, 2007) [1998]. Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 (2nded.). Viz Media. p.207. ISBN 978-1-4215-1389-8.

Shiver is one of Junji Ito’s better horror manga collections. Some of his stories are a bit weak, containing only a striking image or i Then there's Weeping Woman Way, revolving around women weeping for each other's souls after death to keep the dead at peace. Madonna stars a girl in a strict Catholic boarding school, ruled by a crazy headmaster who thinks every pretty lady is the Virgin Mary incarnate and a headmistress that turns everyone into salt. Then there's The Spirit Flow of Aokigahara, wherein a suicidal couple find a spirit flow into Mount Fuji. A Talk with Junji Ito | Creator Interview | VIZ, archived from the original on June 2, 2022 , retrieved June 2, 2022 The others had elements I liked in fairly average stories. Hanging Blimp, Marionette Mansion and The Long Dream are the unique stories I mentioned earlier - nobody else could come up with killer ghostly blimps that try to hang you while wearing a giant mask of your head! And Marionette Mansion is insanely goofy in concept, while The Long Dream is pure weirdness. And yet, as inventive as they are, they’re less scary because they’re so strange, verging on the comedic. I won’t go into details in case anyone’s worried about spoilers so I’ll just say that some of the imagery in these three stories just made me laugh.

Tomie was adapted into a series of films, beginning in 1999. Several other works of Ito's have subsequently been adapted for film, television and videogaming: The first collection on the list, Flesh Colored Horror, is a collection of Junji Ito's penned one-shots. Disturbing elements don't just come from a massive planet that has eyes where they shouldn't be, plus a massive maw full of teeth and a surface that's akin to stomach acid. It also comes from humanity collectively going insane and trying to sacrifice the scientist and his daughter Remina to appease it. With this tale, Junji Ito imparts an important message: mob mentality can be just as damning as cosmic horror. This collection was just- weird and gross and unique in the best ways. Everything I’ve come to expect from Ito and his mangas. The variety in the types horror he presents -especially in his short story collections- is fantastic.

The Face Burglar is a doppleganger-focused tale, with a student being able to assume people's faces unconsciously. The Devil's Logic focuses on suicide, peer pressure, and how sometimes death can come from unexpected places. Love as Scripted, meanwhile, focuses on a man who breaks up with his girlfriends via videotapes, and his current girlfriend killing him when she discovers this. The Long Dream plays around with the concept of time in reality vs. time in dreams. Imagine if a million years can pass in a dream while only a single day has gone by in real time. What type of psychological effects would this have on a person's mind and their perception of reality? What if you had to experience the fear of going to sleep knowing that you would be trapped in another million-year dream every single time you fell asleep? It's a terrifying concept.The first story, “Used Record,” is about a mysterious vinyl record that leads to obsession and murder when people listen to it. Collects: Blood-Slurping Darkness, The Ghost of Golden Time, Roar of Ages, Secret of the Haunted Mansion, Glyceride (a.k.a. Greased), The Earthbound, and Dead Man Calling War is hell, and Deserter is no exception. Deserter is more of a collection in and of itself, with the titular story and several others being included in it. For the sake of duplicates, this entry will only focus on the titular story, as the others were included in Museum of Terror volume 3. Greased (found in Shiver) is, perhaps, Junji Ito’s most disgusting story. It was inspired by the discomfort he himself went through when studying at a dental school. While there, he had to sleep on a futon that had been stained brown from the sweat of former students. From sweat came oil and from oil came zits. And so, this story was born! In it, a young girl and her brother live above their father’s yakiniku restaurant which has slowly and steadily covered the interior of the house with grease and filled it with oily fumes. It’s a story of sibling rivalry soaked in grease: truly, one of the most unpleasant and squeamish stories you can imagine reading. And with the attention to detail Ito brings to his art, some of the panels can leave you feeling incredibly nauseous.