Today, we’re looking at his cat diary that he wrote when he and his wife first got married. In the manga, he dubbed over their names and called them like J-san, A-ko, Yon, Muu, etc. It actually hardly matters because the focus on the story on how he’s trying to cope living with cats, since he’s a dog person. Tales of the Bizarre: 2015 Spring Special - The Earthbound (世にも奇妙な物語 スペシャル・春 - 地縛者), 2015 [52] – (adapted from The Earthbound) Junji Ito Introduces Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre | Netflix, archived from the original on September 21, 2022 , retrieved September 21, 2022

manganohi.jp (in Japanese). 26 November 2007. Archived from the original on 31 December 2007 . Retrieved 16 June 2023. But these are no ordinary balloons. In fact, reports claim it's the giant inflated head of the woman who died. Many more of the balloons soon appear, chasing those whose faces they wear. Instead of strings, metal nooses swing beneath them. What is their purpose? If they catch up with those who they resemble, they catch and hang them... This is a psychedlic night terror come to life. Lieberman, Marissa (16 December 2015). "Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu". No Flying, No Tights. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019 . Retrieved 14 December 2019.A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.Short story collection collecting Used Record, Shiver, Fashion Model, Hanging Balloons, Marionette Mansion, Painter, Long Dream, Honored Ancestors, Glyceride, Fashion Model: Cursed Frame. Stories published in the nineties (with the exception from Fashion Model, released in 2015). a b c d "Journal des chats de Junji Ito (le)". Manga News (in French). 2 November 2015. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019 . Retrieved 9 November 2019.

Reading Junji Ito is entering an unforgiving and irrational world that is dominated by phobias, obsessions, fears, and paranoia, with the every day turning bizarre. Junji Ito, influenced by artists such as Hidesho Hino, Shinichi Koga, and the Father of Cosmic Horror, H.P. Lovecraft, frequently has his characters deal with malevolent supernatural circumstances for no obvious reason or suffer excessive punishment for small offenses. He evokes beauty and terror and a sense of dread with powerful imagery. The thing that makes this story so terrifying is the relatable fact that we've all had that one song that we can't stop listening to. Ito just takes it to the next, supernaturally nightmarish level. And for that reason, this wonderfully drawn tale ends up being just as addictive as the song at its center. 2. Greased Reprints Voices in the Dark and New Voices in the Dark, with the exception of Glyceride (a.k.a. Greased) Uzumaki - Curse Simulation (うずまき 〜呪いシミュレーション〜), 2000 [41] – (adapted from the story of the same name) Collects: Hallucinations, Bog of the Living Dead, Pen Pal, Intruder, The Strange Tale of Oshikiri, and The Strange Tale of Oshikiri: The Walls

Shiver– What better way to discover Ito than by a selection of his best short stories? This is what offers Shiver, a volume that includes nine short stories selected by the author himself and presented here with accompanying notes and commentary. Born in 1963 in Sakashita (now Nakatsugawa), a semi-rural town in the heartlands of Honshu, Ito was introduced to horror comics as a child by his two older sisters whose hand-me-downs included works by Shinichi Koga and renowned mangaka Kazuo Umezu, author of the trans-dimensional romp The Drifting Classroom (1972-74). In a short comics memoir, ‘Master Umezz And Me’ (2014), Ito would relay the influence of Umezu, recounting that a period spent in hospital with appendicitis was made bearable by the older artist’s Makoto-Chan gag manga (“it made me laugh so hard, even though I had a drain in my stomach”), and how some of his own earliest exercises in comics art were alternative drafts of the Drifting saga. It’s great that the English speakers are reading my works and that companies are publishing my works, and I’m very happy for just that,” Ito said in an interview with Anime News Network. “Even for me, I was influenced by American movies growing up, and it’s a dream that people here enjoy my manga.” Tomie was partly inspired by the death of a classmate, while “The Hanging Balloons” came from a childhood dream. Ito’s monster-fish epic Gyo is a product of a formative experience with Jaws and his parents’ stories of life during World War II, and he traces “Long Dream” to a childhood conversation with one of his sisters. 5. A hand injury, combined with his laborious drawing style, forced him to go digital.