Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection

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It explains why the art is a little less polished than his newer books but the stories remain as daffy and original as readers have come to expect from this creator. Ito's influences include classic horror manga artists Kazuo Umezz and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H. Village of the Siren” gets into some Western mythology, and a Japanese man claims to be the reincarnation of a magician from Europe.

For example, the artwork is a lot rougher and feels more rushed in the earlier stories in the collection.

If you have trouble with bad things happening to young kids, skip A Father's Love and, moreso, Bullied. This collection is interesting as insight into the early work of Ito, but displays the flaws of a developing manga artist. While you can see how he’s improved over time, the essence of his horror work is still here, and this is still definitely a worthy read.

As a whole, the collection is nice mixed bag, with some stories dealing with more paranormal phenomena and others being more about human derangement. This fine collection of 12 short stories are sure to fill your well with fear and thought provoking horrors.there are some quite creative ideas and as expected with Ito, things lean heavily into weird and body-horror, with some nicely done panels (page 80 of Where The Sandman Lives for example). His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki , which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo , which was adapted into an animated film; and his books Fragments of Horror , Frankenstein , Lovesickness , No Longer Human , Remina , Shiver , Smashed , and Venus in the Blind Spot , all of which are available from VIZ Media. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended.

r/junjiito is dedicated to legendary award-winning horror mangaka Junji Itō (伊藤潤二) and friends like Kazuo Umezz (楳図かずお), Hideshi Hino (日野日出志), and other horror mangaka.

Or “Scripted Love” about a jilted lover who murders her ex after she receives a tape of pre-recorded messages from him.

Bio House is about vampires out for blood, Village of the Siren is about demons wanting human sacrifice because that’s what demons want, Deserter is about a haunted family, and The Devil’s Logic is about a cursed videotape that kills - I know, how original, eh? This is a truly heart-warming story of loss, recovery and above all, of community' Bernie McGill, author of The Watch House. But then there’s ones like “The Reanimator’s Sword” which seems interesting at first, but then it devolves into an immortal chosen one style of story. It is revealed that Furukawa was a friend of Kikuyo's brother Adera; after deserting from the military, he had asked the family to hide him. Esta vez muestra varias historias de sus primeros años y se puede ver cómo su arte aunque todavía no se refinaba ya estaba ahí, las historias incluidas son buenas pero realmente lo mejor es ver cómo era su arte a lo que es ahora.I’ve mentioned before that I’ve become a little lukewarm on Ito’s work as a whole, while still loving some of his major works. A warm, unsentimental and beautifully-observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'If I were in bother I'd want the Ballybrady bunch at my back. Junji Ito is (as always) the king of body horror graphic novels that are both terrifying, fascinating and completely ridiculous and this book is no exception.