Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu 01

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stars and a recommendation to those limited few who find the idea of a horror artist doing a cute comedy ridiculously amusing. In "The Events of One Late Night," J-kun tries to bribe the cats to sleep on his bed, rather than A-ko's, to no avail.

Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. Cats really are odd creatures and Ito uses that to his advantage taking these normal scenes and putting a horror spin on them. This cat diary is drawn in his typical horror style and has similar pacing to a horror manga but it is laugh out loud hilarious.I’ve read almost everything of his that has been released in America (still waiting for my husband to finish one anthology so he can lend it to me). Ito's two styles of artwork were generally seen as complementing the narrative nicely, [4] [5] with highlights being the characters of Mu and Yon, [5] the range of character facial expressions, [16] and the timing and content of the gags.

Junji Ito makes gleeful use of his superior horror aesthetics to create a charming love letter to the cats his wife forced into his life. J-kun (Ito) and his fiancé A-ko (Ito’s later wife Ayako Ishiguro) have just moved in together, their new house is pristine and sparkling. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is Juni Ito of horror manga like Uzumaki (you know, where a town is consumed by spirals in three volumes) doing diary comics about his pet cats, so you can probably already guess whether this would ever appeal to you. Son las 5 am, y tuve que contener la risa en varias ocasiones porque no sabría explicarle a mi novio que lo desperté a carcajadas porque vi una ilustración de Junji cayendo sobre el moco de su propio gato.King Yon" chronicles Yon's further unsuccessful attempt to escape, his unusual strength, and his position as dominant cat within the household. I feel that without prior knowledge of his works, this will come off as just a bizarre little book and many won’t get the joke. A-ko's appearance, with her almost entirely white eyes, has also been noted to share similarities with yokai, supernatural Japanese entities. Unidentified Creature" centers on a visit from A-ko's parents and Goro, the timid cat they bring along. First there’s Mu a kitten who seems harmless enough, perhaps even cute, but then Mu is joined by A-ko’s full-grown cat Yon.

Josiah Stoup of Otaku USA suggested that Ito's art caricatured "the intense emotions that a pet owner feels," with both the cats and J-kun alternatively being frightened by the other. Junji Ito's Cat Diary appeared as an intermittent serial in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from 26 November 2007 [10] to 26 December 2008. I like both Ito and cats, so I find this pretty delightful, particularly in how it's still drawn like horror manga in typical Ito style, even though the content is all actually pretty normal. Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam [16] and Italian by Panini Comics.

Thus ensues a long journey of a man trying desperately to make two moody cats adore him while also upholding the facade of not caring if they do or don't.