Found in the Smashedshort story collection, Earthbound is a Junji Ito manga that really leans on the eeriness factor. While many of his stories rely on cosmic horror or body horror, this one is more of a slow, creeping dread. Ito takes that Lovecraftian approach to the wide open unknown and runs with it in this story. The Thing That Drifted Ashore presents us with an enormous, impossible, strange creature.

Adapting Frankenstein faithfully and originally is no small ask, but Ito answered the call with grace and poise, as well as a manic adoration for the source material.

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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. A long-delayed four-part animated miniserieswill be produced in 2023 in conjunction with Toonami and IG Production. And then, in "Marionette Mansion" (purportedly 1994), Itō prays for deliverance. A family of puppeteers splits apart when their domineering patriarch dies, until the day when the younger siblings are summoned to the estate of their eldest brother, who has devised a means by which he and his family can remain suspended by wires at all times, their bodies controlled by mysterious and unseen servants dwelling in the ceiling. It's a clever satire of living without pain by embracing a wholly passive role in society, which Itō's commentary explicitly likens to the trials of drawing comics: " How lovely would it be to leave my body like that and get the work done?" The story is undone only by the presence of a supernatural villain which, through its defeat, can restore normalcy; this feels very unconvincing, given that Itō's view of the world typically finds a vivid inner chaos poking out through the glaze of propriety. From "The Long Dream".

Originally published in three volumes and now available in a single collection, Uzumaki is a staggering work of horror fiction. At first, people think it’s a performance piece, but then it gently turns from strange to frightening. What happens when a fashion model(creepy looks and disgusting smile??) starts following amature filmmakers? This was obvious and creepy.There is no body horror here; no abstract terror. This is a story of slow, strange, creeping dread, demonstrating Junji Ito as a master of tension and dread. Honoured Ancestors

One aspect of Lovecraft’s style that has been less thoroughly explored, however, is the cosmic side of cosmic horror. Though one good example is The Thing That Drifted Ashore (below). Marionette Mansion: quien controla los hilos en realidad? Que pasa cuando alguien deja de tener autonomia? Sinceramente me aburri. 2/5 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. This is the last story on this list to feature in the Shivershort story collection. But that book is full of gems that really show off the strength of Ito’s art and plotting. Esta antologia incluye diez relatos, el body horror esta muy presente, al igual que el gore y una ambientacion espeluznante. Una antologia con un nivel medio, algunas ilustraciones son realmente demasiado graficas para mi gusto personal.

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The phenomenon spreads slowly, and people begin to wonder if it’s contagious. There is no rhyme or reason for why people would begin acting this way. Until, of course, there is. It’s an ordinary tale; the kind of thing that has happened to many of us (when I lived in Shanghai, my partner one day brought home two tiny terrapins she had rescued. Suddenly, they were our responsibility). Unlike other popular Japanese writers like Haruki Murakami, whose debut works are often overlooked today, Ito’s earlier works are still treasured. Honored Ancestors (from The Face Burglar, 顔泥棒 Kao Dorobou), a story about an amnesiac girl and the encounter that caused her to lose her memories and about carrying on the family line. At all costs.