

Then there's Sensor, Ito's most recent work to date, along with Dissolving Classroom and No Longer Human. This includes the tale of Gyo, where rotted fish and sharks invade coastal Japan while marching on sickly mechanical legs and infecting people with poison gas, or Remina, where a terrifying living planet approaches the Earth and drives the hysterical crowds to crucify an innocent girl to appease their new celestial overlord. Later stories are shorter than Tomie and Uzumaki, but are still longer than any of his short stories. Junji Ito lance la « deuxième saison » de son manga Genkai Chitai (Sep 14, 2021) en North American Anime, Manga Releases, April 18-24 (Apr 20, 2021) Le manga Genkai Chitai touche à sa fin. The heroine, Kirie, can do little but stare in horror as spiral shapes mutate and torture everyone around her eventually, the town itself might become one giant spiral of madness. It tells the story of a secluded coastal Japanese town and its battle against an infestation of spiral shapes, which appear on everything from currents of water and smoke to pottery, people's bodies and far more. Ito's second lengthy series is perhaps his most famous, the tale of Uzumaki. "Ito’s boundless imagination and his skill for evoking dread and visceral terror are on full display in this collection.RELATED: Bleach Creator Says Thousand-Year Blood War Anime Will Expand Manga's Story His collection Frankenstein won the 2019 Eisner Award in the "Best Adaptation from Another Medium" category, and he has received critical acclaim for his spectacular long-form manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s 1948 novel No Longer Human. Ito’s influences include classic horror manga artists Kazuo Umezz and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film and his short story collections Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Shiver, Smashed and Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Aside from longer works such as Tomie and Gyo, new Ito fans can also check out his anthologies, and in the eyes of some, this is where the mangaka's creativity truly shines.


Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. Junji Ito's longer works are all separate and can be read in any order, and the same is true of his multiple manga anthology collections. Starting with the strikingly bloody “Lovesickness,” this volume collects ten stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings” and “The Rib Woman.” Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture the beautiful boy and close the case, but… Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection by master of horror Junji Ito.
