Oikawa, Ataru (October 6, 1998), Tomie (Crime, Drama, Horror), Art Port, Daiei Studios, archived from the original on November 12, 2011 , retrieved October 5, 2022 I don’t like it when Ito writes about his own cats and dogs, as he does here at the end. Breaks the ghostly mood. Collect them elsewhere.. I loved Ito's view of Frankenstein's story, and the art has breathed some new prespective into Mary Shelly's classic. However, some alterations on the story I felt were not the best, even though I can relate to the reason behind them. Its definitely a good read for fans of the original, and for fans of Junji Ito's style of horror and art, though definitely not where you should start your Junji Ito journey, as it doesn't display his true original work and mindset. Oshikiri find a petrified body in the walls after an earthquake exposes it. Things get nuts when his parents finally come home. The best story yet. But there were none really and the story felt flat, especially at the end. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the story and the art. His representation of the monster spooked me and I'm here for it.

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PDF / EPUB File Name: Frankenstein__Junji_Ito_Story_Collection_-_Junji_Ito.pdf, Frankenstein__Junji_Ito_Story_Collection_-_Junji_Ito.epub Venus in the Blind Spot is a short story collection, which features new and previously published tales. This interpretation, though not off the rails, portrayed Frankenstein’s monster as more menacing and brute which in my opinion was captured well and made sense as it made more impact in graphic format. Personally, I prefer the original one when it came to the monster's character, because the way it was written was such that it was vague whether the monster was a little repentent or he was just cunning, whereas it was clear cut in this graphic format that he was evil through and through. Fantasista (February 22, 2018). "The Horrifyingly Beautiful Junji Itō: Collection Exhibit at ACG_Labo - Manga Planet". Manga Planet. Archived from the original on November 11, 2019 . Retrieved February 20, 2019. Frankenstein is the sixteenth volume in the Horror World of Junji Ito series. It is an adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. It was originally published in Japan in three parts from 1994 to 1998. The collected edition was first published in 1998. To date, it has not been released officially in English, but has been scanlated in its entirety. The Cherished Collection, a re-print from 2000, contains two added chapters: Ito Junji's Dog Diary (detailing Ito's experiences of owning a dog named Lulu), and Fixed Face.

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Kubo, Tomohiro (November 17, 2007), Tomie vs Tomie (Horror), Arcimboldo Y.K., Art Port, Asahi Sonorama, archived from the original on October 7, 2022 , retrieved October 7, 2022 Mitsuishi, Tomijiro (February 11, 2000), Tomie: Replay (Horror), archived from the original on July 29, 2015 , retrieved October 5, 2022 His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. The Walls is my favourite story of the collection. An earthquake opens up some old walls in the house revealing the corpses buried within them - and then his long-missing parents suddenly return from working abroad. Or are they his parents…? Definitely the scariest and most macabre story here. His Frankenstein adaptation takes up more or less half of the book. Although I could see nothing wrong in the technical aspect of the narrative, (on the contrary, it has remained faithful to the original material), the story itself is way off with Ito's trademark manga elements. It doesn't have the usual bizarre obsession over something that almost always spirals down to a horrific and grotesque end. The story does't call for such anyway. His take Frankenstein nonetheless can perhaps be considered as a better graphic adaptation of the novel.

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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. Collects: Hallucinations, Bog of the Living Dead, Pen Pal, Intruder, The Strange Tale of Oshikiri, and The Strange Tale of Oshikiri: The Walls

Reprints Voices in the Dark and New Voices in the Dark, with the exception of Glyceride (a.k.a. Greased) Collects: The Circus is Here, Gravetown, The Adjacent Window, and both The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings stories Hmm, all of these short stories seem to feature Oshikiri in some capacity. Here he meets a girl with no friends and befriends her. Things start going strange as she corresponds with her pen pals.

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Don’t quote me on this — but, I’m under the impression that Frankenstein by Junji Ito will be released in a story collection. However, I only received the galley for the Frankenstein portion, so that’s all I will be reviewing. 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. A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he has been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hair-like volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them—the opening act for the terror is about to occur. Nakahara, Shun (June 29, 2002), Tomie: Saishuu-shô - kindan no kajitsu (Horror), archived from the original on October 6, 2022 , retrieved October 6, 2022This 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.