Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection

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Collects: Fun Summer Vacation, Fun Winter Vacation, Souichi's Diary of Delights, Souichi's Home Tutor, Mannequin Teacher, and Souichi's Birthday This was excellent. It's about a woman who is placed in a machine where she can't move and then forgotten about. This is one of those fears I think we've all suffered when put in a position where everything is beyond our control and we're completely at someone else's mercy. The Frankenstein story is the longest one, and it’s a (too) faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's original. It turns out to be rather flat, compared to Ito’s own original work, and less than scary. Shelley’s story weaves in social commentary, but Ito lets that go to focus on the basic story, and this turns out to be a disappointing approach. What is terrific is Ito's line work, and yes, he only seems to be getting better as an artist. What if fish had legs and started walking out of the ocean? This long-form story details what happens when the fish invade the land and begin to cause havoc. After a while, the tale evolves from a creature feature to incorporate body horror and nauseating artwork.

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Junji Ito's adaptation follows the original story almost verbatim. It follows the story too closely. It feels flat and lifeless. The art is great though. Collects: Slug Girl, The Thing That Drifted Ashore, Mold, Shiver, The Inn, Groaning Drain Pipes, and Bio House Other than Frankenstein, the short stories featured a creepy high schooler by the name Oshikiri, and each story described the weird happenings around him, his house and school. In these arcs, it is obvious how talented Junji Ito is in drawing readers in with graphic details that are disconcertingly scary and yet impossible to look away once you've started reading.

Drawing Inspired by "Enigma of Amigara Fault" from Junji Ito | VIZ, archived from the original on April 23, 2021 , retrieved October 23, 2022 This is a collection of short stories that were originally created in the mid 1990s. These include: Venus in the Blind Spot is a short story collection, which features new and previously published tales. The brilliance of Ito’s version reaches its pitch in Frankenstein’s creation of the monster. In Ito’s hands, there is no marvelous invention, no awe-inspiring contraption to ogle. Scientific-looking trinkets are littered about the room like scattered beer cans, the room of his birth more a 19th century man-cave than a laboratory. What we are drawn to is the mass of body parts strung together, their organs oozing onto a mat laid out so that maybe the floors will stay clean. It’s too big, gnarly, already a mistake, too much body for the room to bear. And then he stands up! In the room that can’t sustain him! There are plenty of depictions of Frankenstein’s monster that capture the poetry of this moment - Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version immediately comes to mind - but this is the rare vision which makes the act of creation as violent and grotesque as an act of killing. Here the delirious dirge of horror pollutes the prettiness of the plain.

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Higuchinsky (February 11, 2000), Uzumaki (Drama, Fantasy, Horror), Omega Micott Inc., Shogakukan, Space Shower TV, archived from the original on October 2, 2022 , retrieved October 2, 2022 I’d hoped that he would do something different with the story - like a contemporary version or modify it in some way - but Ito’s Frankenstein is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Shelley’s cumbersome and overrated novel. I also think it might be a great book for any readers who are new to reading manga, as most will already be familiar with the story and can get used to the reading style. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his fiancée, A-ko, to live with him. Little did he know, his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow—Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu, an adorable Norwegian forest cat. Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself persuaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain the affection of his new feline friends. This is an upcoming collection of nine stories adapted from author Hirokatsu Kihara, famed in Japan for his telling of urban legends. Junji Ito retells these tales in his unique style and perspective through the lens of university student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto. Each story is a different encounter, which supposedly happened to someone in real life.

Collects: Fun Summer Vacation, Fun Winter Vacation, Soichi's Diary of Delights, Soichi's Home Tutor, Mannequin Teacher, Soichi's Birthday, Soichi's Selfish Curse, The Room With Four Walls, Coffin, and Rumors With Frankenstein, Ito takes the introspective element of human horror and applies it to creativity. Using Mary Shelley’s monumental gothic horror story on science gone wrong and men playing at god, Ito finds a way to extend his exploration on humanity’s monstrosity by making it clear that any creation born out of human curiosity can only result in misshapen monsters. 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. Collects: The Circus is Here, Gravetown, The Adjacent Window, and both The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings stories

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a b c d e f g h i j k "An Interview With Master of Horror Manga Junji Ito (Full Length Version)". Grape Japan. June 10, 2019. Archived from the original on July 30, 2021 . Retrieved April 9, 2020. alas, he did not! I read through this manga in about an hour (which, granted, wasn’t that difficult as it wasn’t very long). The story, basically, stayed true to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; there may have been minor differences that I can’t actually remember from the original. But, in general, this is the story that I know as Frankenstein. Tsuruta, Norio (September 13, 2001), Kakashi (Fantasy, Horror), Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), Planet, Mi-PiC, archived from the original on September 21, 2022 , retrieved September 20, 2022

Reprints Voices in the Dark and New Voices in the Dark, with the exception of Glyceride (a.k.a. Greased) The Liminal Zone is a collection that features four tales. Unlike other collections, the stories featured in this one are much longer than other books and originally appeared on the Line Comics App in Japan. The original work is full of questions of morals, philosophy, and critics. It's a book that makes you stop reading for a moment to think about your own ethics and what you would have done if you were at the place of Dr. Frankenstein.

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Other subgenres featured in his work include creature features and cosmic horror. These and other varieties of horror can be found alongside science fiction and folklore. Who publishes Junji Ito’s work? In addition to Kazuo Umezu, Shigeru Mizuki, Ito has cited Hideshi Hino, Shinichi Koga, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Edogawa Ranpo and H. P. Lovecraft as being major influences on his work. [19] Ito has stated that Umezu has inspired his storytelling, and Hino has inspired his ability in creating a mood for a work. He has also stated that he admires Guillermo del Toro's work. [20] a b c d A Talk with Junji Ito | Creator Interview | VIZ, archived from the original on June 2, 2022 , retrieved June 2, 2022 The collection closes out with some throwaway short-short stories. The Hell of the Doll Funeral, about a couple whose daughter transforms into a doll, is visually striking, but not much else. Face Firmly in Place is a Pit and the Pendulum-esque story of a woman trapped in a surgical device by her ears - but how will she escape? For such a nightmarish story, it was an unusual choice to close out with a jokey ending that wasn’t that great. And the Boss Non-Non shorts about Ito’s dog were instantly forgettable.

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In 2021, Ito received two more Eisner Awards for his works Remina and Venus in the Blind Spot, receiving "Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia" and "Best Writer/Artist." [17] Personal life [ edit ] In this adaptation of Junji Ito, we only follow the plot of the original story, with little liberties. I actually would have loved to see more liberties taken by Junji Ito, more gore and horror. This collection is definitely not one of Junji Ito's better works, though Ito fans and completionists will be compelled to buy this hardcover anyway, because well, it's a Junji Ito work. The extra part on Oshikiri was decent, but not as memorable as the stories in his Shiver collection, they seem to be ok for big fans of Ito but not must reads for sure.