No Longer Human Complete Edition (Manga)

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Found in the Smashedshort story collection, Earthbound is a Junji Ito manga that really leans on the eeriness factor. While many of his stories rely on cosmic horror or body horror, this one is more of a slow, creeping dread. Character-wise, all the returning cast feel true to themselves and they all have new looks which I feel fit their characters pretty well. The new main character added, Tsunagi, is by far the best addition to section nine ever. She is fun and Since he is so scared and she looks so very obviously scary, doubt is immediately sewn into our minds about whether or not she is actually a threat. This curse builds up a mind-shattering state of paranoia and obsession that, eventually, leads to death.

While other stories (see below) showcase even more bonkers imaginative flexing than this one, Hanging Balloons is arguably Ito’s most unsettling and outright horrifying manga short story. It’s no secret that Junji Ito’s writing, art, and, design style have all been heavily influenced by the mind and works of H.P. Lovecraft. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. Sure, Motoko isn't in it, but that's no gaurantee of non-quality (Innocence, Solid State Society, the 1.5 manga). Instead, we follow Togusa, Batou, and the rest of the gang plus a young psychic (they exist in Shirow's work, don't make a big screaming deal out of it, it's nothing new) as they work to uncover a murder mystery that then, in classic SAC fashion, turns out to involve a wide-spanning conspiracy involving bio-enhanced test-tube kids, weird cults, shady corporations, and even some sinister Chinese influence. Put simply, Junji Ito’s Cat Diary is a short book about Ito’s very real personal experience with becoming the sudden owner of two cats: Yon and Mu.Early on, a young man and his lover commit suicide by drowning themselves in a river, something Dasai himself did five days after completing this book. Ito is a man driven to creating horror comics, and he here is attracted to every day psychic horror. The books are in translation, too. How are we expected to find the heart and soul of Dasai, or Ito, or ourselves in this hall of mirrors about a man who people find to be a clown, a man wearing a mask of humor as he heads daily into greater and greater darkness? Who is Oba/Sadai/Ito, really?! That’s Ito’s style, and it’s what sets him apart from the rest. Here’s a writer that lives and breathes horror and terror. Fit Tags? Tragedy could fit I suppose, and ecchi just doesn’t feel like it makes sense with this artstyle idk it might just be me

The Human Bug University ( ヒューマンバグ大学, Hyūman Bagu Daigaku) is a Japanese manga series published by K Contents. It has been serialized online via YouTube with voiced narration and dialogue since March 2019. An anime television series adaptation by DLE aired from October to December 2022. The Uzumaki manga is arguably Junji Ito’s most famous book, apart from a select handful of his short stories (found below).Ito is a fiction writer, first and foremost, so having something that is personal nonfiction feels delightfully special and intimate. Also in the usual Ito style, his way of drawing facial expressions and emotions is consistently outstanding in Sensor. This is not a pleasant story. It is about heartbreak and depression, sexual abuse and addiction, and a whole range of topics that are more raw and human and, sometimes, more grotesque than the terrors conjured by horror fiction. Each of these balloons is uniquely tailored to a specific person, sharing their exact face and hair. Everyone has a balloon, and everyone’s balloon is after them. Junji Ito’s Frankenstein feels like a film adaptation of sorts, with Ito playing the role of director, costume designer, set designer, choreographer, and camera operator. And, in all of those roles, he excels.

No Longer Human has had a staggering influence on not only the Japanese canon, but also the works of writers like Qiu Miaojin and many other Korean and Taiwanese authors. Almost all of these Junji Ito manga short stories can be read in his magnum opus Shiver, a collection of Ito stories that is near perfect. The way Ito draws himself, his wife, and the cats makes them all seem like characters in a horror story. And yet, nothing frightening is happening. Fun fact: When I was a kid watching Return of the Jedi, I thought that Yoda telling Luke that he was 900 years old meant that he was a human who happened to have lived for that long.

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There is one particular chapter which involves a strange bug. This headless thing with a swollen body and long antennae is grotesque, but it becomes more-so as the chapter progresses. The detailed gore that Ito draws so well is in full force at this moment. This is a story found in one of Ito’s earlier short story collections, known as the Slug Girl Collection (named after one of the book’s stories). Eventually the narrative is reduced to hallucinations and an extended dream sequence as Oba becomes increasingly unhinged.