Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection

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Mangaka-tachi ga Egaita Kaidan - Kin-no-Hoshi Sha (Anthology) "Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection" [ ]

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Oct 28 NBA Star Rui Hachimura Gets Animated and Possibly Saves the World in New Crayon Shin-chan EpisodeI 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. Oct 25 Yearning Teens, Frustrated Romance, Pretty Skies — Is There Anything Else to Makoto Shinkai? 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. This is a light novel written by Hirokatsu Kihara (木原浩勝), drawn by Junji Ito. Only the last chapter is in Manga Format, "The Summer Time Graduation Trip". 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

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Based on "Kokka no Wana (Trap of the State)", the autobiography of ex-diplomat and political writer Sato Masaru. Horror Manga-ka Juni Ito is remarkably productive. This is just one of several short story collections out in English translation in the last couple years alone. I might say that the ten stories here are not appreciably better or worse than other collections (so, 3 stars?) but the art continues to be amazing. The three final stories are The Mansion of Phantom Pain, The Rib Woman and Memories of Real Poop. The first two stories are the usual dark, horror, excellence with some amazingly gory imagery in The Rib Woman. 4 stars for those two! The last was incredibly daft, about shit literally lol. Could have easily been left out.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. The story’s quite atmospheric though and the creepy fog makes the narrow Japanese streets seem claustrophobic. Ito’s art is first rate as always, even if his character designs get recycled from book to book - the woman with the full-body tattoo and some of the decayed ghosts look incredible and grotesque. And I appreciate that Ito never shies away from drawing crowd scenes. I know some writer/artists tend to avoid writing stories with big crowds because they don’t want to draw that many figures in each panel but Ito never cops out like that.