Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection

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By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Bits of human bodies strewn on the floor, hacked apart with clumsy implements and sewn together with dirty needles. I hope Junji Ito sensei gets a chance to adapt more classic literature like Frankenstein in the future. One example of this is the sequence when the Creature recounts the moment he decided he hated humanity.

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I was kind of shocked by how short the Frankenstein story was but it did not need more because it was told and shown perfectly. The entire book excels on a number of levels--well-paced, tense, tales with wonderfully detailed, striking black and white line art. He has also found inspiration from Rakugo storytellers who tell Kaiden ghost stories, incorporating it into No Longer Human. La manera de abordar la historia, con mimo y respeto, y los cambios que hace para plasmarla en menos de 200 páginas, consiguiendo que cierres el tomo y digas: SÍ, yo te compro lo que haga falta.

I'm not familiar with Junji Ito's work other than being familiar with his status and reputation as a horror manga artist and a passing familiarity with his visual style. I got a little lost for a couple of stories trying to figure out how someone was in the second story after events of the first story but once it was revealed how they were all linked together I was loving it! Film director Guillermo del Toro cited on his official Twitter account that Ito was originally a collaborator for the video game Silent Hills, of which both Del Toro and game designer Hideo Kojima were the main directors.

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Todo comenzará con un deseo de conocimiento y un experimento que llevará a Víctor Frankenstein a alejarse de todos por aquello que ha creado, dirigiéndolo a su perdición, camino en el que conocerá al capitán Walton, quién será oyente de una historia tan magnífica como aterradora. Ito has been inspired by horror since childhood, with his first manga being written about a protagonist with an eye in the middle of his hand, attacking him; this was heavily influenced by Shigeru Mizuki's Kappa no Sanpei.When the monster is given a prospective mate by his creator, the moment we see the two together on the page we understand why these two will reject each other - there’s no room for them to stand together! I cannot recommend this version of the story enough, especially if you want the visuals to help aid in your comprehension of such a classic tale. Fun for a quick creepy read and I definitely could stand to go back and look at the artwork with more attention to detail, as I tend to read through manga more quickly than it deserves. Uzumakiwas originally published as three trade paperback collection but is now more widely available as a single hardcover.

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These stories involve murderous dopplegangers, extending necks, haunted bogs, and many of the grotesqueries which we've all come to associate with Ito's work. In this sense, Ito is successful in retaining the classic gothic elements of the story while also producing one of the most revolting versions of the classic monster.

Includes an interview focused on Ito's art technique as well as commentary from the artist on each work.

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Also included are six tales of Oshikiri–a high school student who lives in a decaying mansion connected to a haunted parallel world. Again, as with “Neck Specter,” we think we know what is going on, until (gulp), Oshikri himself begins to get threatening letters in his own handwriting. In fact, his Frankenstein’s Monster never strays too far from Shelley’s in terms of how it reflects the creator’s own delusions and failings.It's the emotion in the art of the monster that separates this Frankenstein from most adaptations of the classic novel. These pages are light, literally so - daylight leaves little room for Ito’s oppressive hatching, and it leeches away the distinctive character of his art. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hair-like volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. I can’t wait to read more of his work because the art is so good and he knows how to draw readers in. This collects Ito's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a cycle of short stories about a school boy Oshikiri who keeps getting into various creepy situations, and a bunch of one-offs, including a couple about Ito's actual dog.