Junji Itô's horror manga universe
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:19 am
I've been living in Japan for some years, but until say 5 years ago, I wasn't really serious about learning the language.
Double for learning to read.
However, after getting into Anki and spaced repetition, my level improved to the point that I could read a bit and started getting into horror manga. At first, I'd just read whatever I could find regardless of accessibility or level. Then, I stumbled upon Junji Itô's world.
First was 溶解教室 (Youkai Kyoushitsu - Youkai Classroom with Youkai being supernatural creatures) or Dissolving Classroom. It's a series of tales about a weird demonic girl and her constantly apologetic big brother in a town where people's brains start melting because of them.
Then I found a couple anthology books followed by 渦巻 (Uzumaki - Spiral), a fairly large collection of tales revolving around a town's "spiral" curse and a couple of teens dealing with its fallout. You may have seen or heard of the movie adaptation that covered some of the more famous chapters.
But as you may have seen in my Random Hooks thread, some of his stuff can be adapted into Ravenloft despite the contemporary setting. Any fans of the man's work around these parts?
Double for learning to read.
However, after getting into Anki and spaced repetition, my level improved to the point that I could read a bit and started getting into horror manga. At first, I'd just read whatever I could find regardless of accessibility or level. Then, I stumbled upon Junji Itô's world.
First was 溶解教室 (Youkai Kyoushitsu - Youkai Classroom with Youkai being supernatural creatures) or Dissolving Classroom. It's a series of tales about a weird demonic girl and her constantly apologetic big brother in a town where people's brains start melting because of them.
Then I found a couple anthology books followed by 渦巻 (Uzumaki - Spiral), a fairly large collection of tales revolving around a town's "spiral" curse and a couple of teens dealing with its fallout. You may have seen or heard of the movie adaptation that covered some of the more famous chapters.
But as you may have seen in my Random Hooks thread, some of his stuff can be adapted into Ravenloft despite the contemporary setting. Any fans of the man's work around these parts?