In his typically self-deprecating author’s note at the end of the book, Ito wonders whether his horror instincts have returned, but it doesn’t take much reading to find out that they have. In fact, Fragments of Horror reads very much like what it is: a return to form. In this volume, you’ll find a cross-section of just about everything you can expect from Ito’s work, from the sublime to the grotesque, and from the serious to the silly. There’s a poignant tale right next door to a ludicrous one. Almost all of them contain Ito’s trademark talent for a perfectly-timed panel, the equivalent of the jump-scare reveal in a movie at just the right moment but all the more impressive because Ito allows it to linger. Gyo & Tomie's Junji Ito to Launch Ma no Kakera Manga". Anime News Network. February 10, 2013 . Retrieved December 15, 2015. This is an upcoming collection of nine stories adapted from author Hirokatsu Kihara, famed in Japan for his telling of urban legends. Junji Ito retells these tales in his unique style and perspective through the lens of university student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto. Each story is a different encounter, which supposedly happened to someone in real life.

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Prior to the publication of Fragments of Horror, Junji Ito had not written horror manga for eight years; his last published collection in the genre was Shin Yami no Koe Kaidan in 2006. [2] [3] [4] Ito wrote that "during those eight years, I was doing plenty of work on illustrations and manga about cats or about society, but even taking that into account, the time seems too empty somehow. What on Earth was I doing all that time?" [4] When he submitted the storyboard for the first story, his editor, Mikio Yoshida, expressed concern that Ito's "instincts for horror hadn't returned"; this led him to completely rewrite the story before it was finally published. Still, Ito felt that it was below his usual quality. [4] Release [ edit ] There is a very good chance that even if you don't read a lot of manga you've probably heard of Junji Itō, and I will begin by suggesting that this very renown can serve to obscure the finer points of his work. You can’t talk about horror mangawithout mentioning Junji Ito. He’s a modern master. Since 1987, he’s been disturbing readers with short and long-form stories that blend several subgenres, such as psychological and body horror.Dissection-chan :- 5/5 ( what the hell was that ? No seriously , kids stay away , people sensitive to gross images stay away , if you love yourself , stay away! This is was so gross and disturbing that I gave it 5 stars?? Seriously what's wrong with me?) Ito's work is indisputably distinctive, and his take on horror is wholly fresh and unusual. In the end, many of his tales have a logical conclusion that only adds to their strangeness. Given that this is my first introduction to Ito's work, it only seems sensible that I am perplexed considering the inconsistent quality of this collection. There were several weak spots, including a few of the chapters that were close to the conclusion and weren't really necessary, but not in the manner that vagueness produces effective terror by leaving it to the reader's imagination. Some that I find a bit offensive even because it’s futile — like the chapter of author with tic. For the month of July, the Counter Arts Book Club (in the guise of Jess the Avocado) set us a collection of graphic short stories as our monthly read for review. Tomio y el jersey rojo de cuello alto. (*****) La historia empieza con un chico que no separa las manos de su cabeza. Excelente, de esos relatos que no puedes olvidar. Great. If I didn't have nightmare before, well I do have them now after reading this. If you feel like the cover is enticing enough, think again if your heart is strong to handle it.

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I also don’t normally have any real tolerance for ‘Horror’, in any medium. It’s a genre which simply doesn’t appeal to me — each to their own, I guess, but I’ve honestly never understood the appeal of watching/reading/looking at/listening to something which leaves me terrified. I have more of a stomach for gore (though I find it unnecessary), but psychological horror absolutely defeats me. Fan Disillusionment: Invoked in "Magami Nanakuse", with the source of fear being the idea that your favorite creator is not who they appear to be. Chris Randle of The Guardian gave the series a mostly positive review. He noted that Ito usually avoided being "political" in his stories, and also compared the collection to a toned down version of the ero guro art movement. Ultimately, he concluded that Ito liked to write stories that were less personal and more fascinated with things beyond comprehension, like Lovecraft but without the latter's political views. [24] Magami Nanakuse": The truth behind a literally-quirky author's work is far stranger than the fiction it inspires.A man is plagued by horrible visions and refuses to come out from under the covers of his futon. A solid but very short story. The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish manuscripts penned between the third century B.C. and the first century A.D., include the oldest known fragments of the Hebrew Bible. Modern researchers first learned of the texts’ existence in the 1940s, when local Bedouin shepherds happened upon a set of the scrolls in the Qumran Caves. Gentle goodbye:- 4/5 ( this wasn't disturbing or disgusting like Mr. Ito's usual work , it was in general very sad and depressing and I like sad thing)

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It's really no secret that Ito is the master of horror manga. He creates some of the craziest and goriest stories that I have ever read. Let me tell you, I've read/seen a lot of crazy things in my life but Ito will always be one step ahead of me and the rest. The imagery is nothing like I've experienced before. a b c d Ito, Junji (June 16, 2015). "Afterword". Fragments of Horror. Viz Media. p.222. ISBN 978-1-4215-8079-1. For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists in Israel have discovered new fragments of a Dead Sea Scroll. Numbering in the dozens, the pieces of parchment were likely hidden in a desert cave between 132 and 136 A.D., during the Jewish people’s failed Bar Kokhba revolt against the Romans. This is a short story collection which revolves around a pair of siblings who cause chaos everywhere they go.

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Horror can be about fear of the unknown, but it can also be about turning the mundane into the unknown. About taking an everyday truth you rely on and making it something unsteady, something you can no longer trust. We trust our bodies, we trust the houses we live in and the people we love; turn those things foreign and weird, and you can create a horror more unsettling than any monster in the dark. Do this poorly, of course, and you settle on the merely ridiculous - something more silly than frightening, more absurd than macabre. Junji Ito's work pretty much always treads this line between the horrifying and the absurd - he finds horror in things most people see as bland and everyday, and this can result in both awful fear or abject silliness. But you certainly can't say he's not creative. McCulloch, Joe (July 8, 2015). "Fragments of Horror". The Comics Journal . Retrieved December 4, 2017. In an in-depth review for The Comics Journal, Joe McCulloch opined that the collection was hardly representative of Ito's best work, with only "Whispering Woman" standing out from the others artistically, yet contained interesting shared themes across many of its stories. He made note of how most of the interesting characters in the collection were female - either put-upon protagonists or powerful, liberated, and uncaring antagonists, while the majority of male characters were either treacherous or dull. In his eyes, the common narrative across the collection was one of women confronted by the faithlessness of their male partners and then offered liberation through the actions or example of the consistently female supernatural antagonist. Ultimately, however, McCulloch felt that these themes were not genuine, but rather a slightly cynical attempt to profit from a magazine with a primarily female audience, a motive that he saw as being satirized in the self-aware "Magami Nanakuse". [25] Futón. (****) Una chica que encuentra a su novio bajo el futón, sin querer salir, por los monstruos que dice ver. Character Tics: A focus in "Magami Nanakuse", as the eponymous author writes about physical and mental compulsions, many of which she appears to have. The physical tics are a source of the horror once everyone at Nanakuse's parties ends up reflexively copying her in the same grotesque mannerisms and we see prisoners below her house developing them in isolation.These arguably Freudian themes are heightened in “Dissection-chan”, which finds a bland medical student -- Itō is laudable consistent with the dullness of his protagonists -- confronted with a human cadaver which not only proves to be alive, but turns out to be a woman he'd known since childhood. Ruriko was always obsessed with playing doctor, and loved nothing more than dissecting hapless animals with the coerced aid of our narrating non-hero. Now as an adult, she wants to be dissected herself, to relieve the mysterious and lascivious aches in her belly: “Aaaaah! I get turned on just imagining it!” she grins, laying nude in the narrator's apartment. He does not consent, and it is only years later, when he has become a teacher, that they are reunited: her dead on the slab and him unexpectedly tasked with dissecting his old friend before an eager class. All of them are stunned by what they find as her belly is opened – new animals, mutant forms of the critters she dissected as a child, crammed into her body in place of any logical organs, as if having burst from her womb and devoured everything in sight. Ruriko's corpse smiles. It is accomplished.