#junji ito shiver

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uzumaki anime is reminding me of junji ito's fantastic way of taking an idea that sounds stupid as all fuck on paper and then making it the most disturbing thing you've ever seen

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8# Shiver decided to be lazy today and to a redraw of Page 50 from Junji Ito's Shiver, it's from the second story in the collection, also named shiver.

This one was a good practice for imitating art styles

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This cover is beautiful 💖💕

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The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions Artbook

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Shiver - Junji Ito Selected Stories ("Honored Ancestors") // Junji Ito

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Shiver - Marionette Mansion | Junji Ito

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Junji Ito Story Collection

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I feel like I am one of junji ito's hanging balloon heads

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Junji Ito's work is something else. Hellstar Remina is so wierd. Shiver and Venus in the blind spot got me hooked with every story in them (except maybe the house foundations one, too short and like absurdly stupid). No longer human was not my cup of tea but it was somewhat interesting(read just first few chapters). But Uzumaki that is the best horror I have ever read (although I did not read too much of horror). Like every idea about spiral explored in that manga was so original and Ito's artistic talent shined at every page. If you ever wanted to be disturbed by some piece of media just go and read Uzumaki.

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👻 Shiver 👻

Rating: ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

Besides being a selection of Ito's works, the author provides commentary and rough sketches and outlines for each selected work. I enjoyed the insight provided for each story very much.

As for my favorites, I'd have to say Marionette Mansion, Painter, and Used Record. Honorable mention to both Fashion Model pieces, which I'd love a whole dedicated collection.

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JUNJI ITO MANGA!!!

All of the horror manga I have are made by Junji Ito. I admire his works because his stories mostly involve body horror and surreal horror.

This list is a little bit different from the previous two. I couldn't find any favorite characters in some of the books, so I'll list my favorite stories instead!

Tomie

This is the first horror manga I've ever read, and it's beautifully morbid. The titular antagonist is irredeemable in every way, and I especially like how she can mutate her body and make clones of herself. She also appears in Shiver, which is the next book on this list.

Favorite Stories: Mansion, Hair, and Babysitter

Shiver

This anthology was really fun to read! Each of the stories are memorable in their own ways, and I loved how some of them had surreal elements mixed in to make the horror more unique.

Favorite Stories: Fashion Model and The Long Dream

Dissolving Classroom

I gotta love the morbid humor in this one. It never fails to horrify me and make me laugh at the same time! It even includes a bonus story at the end of the book!

Favorite Character: Chizumi Azawa

Junji Ito is one of the people who made me love J-Horror, and he's a very talented writer too.

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196. Shiver, by Junji Ito

Owned: Yes Page count: 394 My summary: Giant faces appear over the city, nooses dangling below them. A runaway finds domestic bliss in a house controlled by puppeteers. Paintings of a young girl always come out strange. And a family honour their ancestors in a very unusual way... My rating: 3/5 My commentary:

More Junji Ito! I was going to have my annual reread of The Dark Is Rising be my last five books of the year, all neat and tidy, and then I got some Junji Ito for Christmas and my whole brain just went 'what the hell'. And, you know, it's not like it takes all that long to get through a collection of manga short stories. Much like every other Junji Ito collection I've read, this one has its ups and downs. Overall I really liked it, as ever, full of the usual Junji Ito hallmarks and styles of storytelling. This particular collection has a section of author's commentary and original sketches after each story, which is a nice bonus.

The first of the stories I'm gonna talk about is Used Record, about a pair of kids who get addicted to listening to this strange record. One steals it from the other and tries to trace its source, and it turns out that it's a recording of the last song of a dead singer, and it's incredibly rare. And people will kill to get it. I'm torn between two ideas here - one, the notion of an addictive and haunted piece of music is kind of hard to convey in a non-audio format like this, but two, the atmosphere is creepy and the story is actually very tense. It's subtle, for Ito - no body horror or creepy imagery, at least not as much as Ito's usual trademark, which I think works more being situated next to some of the more body-horror stories. It makes a nice change, and it's interesting!

Fashion Model, is...I have some problems with this, and it's all about appearance. The idea here is that a hideous woman is a fashion model, and she turns out to be some kind of sharklike monster woman who eats people. Because ugly people are evil! Given that Ito's protagonists tend to be conventionally attractive interchangeable people, and those who look different tend to be the bad guys, it has an uncomfortable overtone of bigotry towards people whose appearances are different. There are other ways you can make someone bad, and this ain't it, Ito.

Finally, there's Honoured Ancestors. This was a creepy one - a young woman who just lost her memory is invited into the home of a man claiming to be her fiancee, but it turns out that he's the reason she lost her memory. She saw his father, who lives with the skulls of all of his ancestors connected to his head, living on in his mind and through his body. One aspect of this is lost in translation - the dad is meant to be creepy by suddenly talking like an older woman, but that language change doesn't translate well into English. This just straddled the line of being too over the top, and it strayed into the ridiculous from time to time, but I love the effort on display here, and the creepy imagery of the skulls stretching up from the dad's head like a fucked up centipede. And the woman's terror at all of this, too. Poor girl.

Next - 'tis the season! It's time for my yearly reread of the Dark is Rising sequence.

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Shiver - Junji Ito Selected Stories ("Marionette Mansion") // Junji Ito