Yoda, child-me assumed, was just what we would all eventually look like if we managed to live to 900. 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).

While Ito’s styles of storytelling and drawing are far removed from Shelley’s writing and themes, the two still managed to marry very successfully. The planet Remina is an entirely unknown entity; it seems to be alive, conscious, devouring planets and everything else on its way to Earth. Human Bug Daigaku tells the story of a lone salaryman by the name of Hirofumi Satake. Accused of a murder that he committed of his fiancée Chie Negishi, the punishment for murder is death, and he is being sentenced just as the justice courts say so. Satake has one particular trait: being known as the "Undead Man", he has outlived all the dangers imposed on his life, no matter how high nor how wide. For that reason, the mysterious research institution, known only as "The Human Crazy University" with the unassuming Professor spokesperson in toll, develops an interest and uses him to seek answers to the mundane human life of miraculous phenomena and the thing we call karma.

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The Uzumaki manga is arguably Junji Ito’s most famous book, apart from a select handful of his short stories (found below). This curse builds up a mind-shattering state of paranoia and obsession that, eventually, leads to death.

no longer human till this day resonated with so many people. its a story that exposed the weakness, self destruction, honesty to the point it hurts, no rationalization for all bad decision and actions and somehow we empathize with the character. TW: sexual abuse, rape, graphic mature scenes and violence, suicide, depression, alcoholism, substance abuse, parental neglect, domestic cheating She meets a man who knows her name, and who invites her to his village. She learns about the Christian missionary Miguel, whom the villagers protected during Japan’s prosecution of Christians. This town is affected by a curse involving the symbol of a spiral. It’s a story that plays on the impact that symbols have in both modern and ancient societies, especially in Japan.When this book was released, it was a very exciting day for me. Junji Ito is my favourite mangaka and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is my favourite novel. Having the latter be adapted into a manga by the former was like a dream come true. I never read the original, so can't say for myself who Dasai is in this work, but the story is of Yozo, an artist, rendering his soul on canvas such as other tortured artists like Van Gogh or Munch, though most of the time Oba draws manga. He plays the clown but is profoundly depressed. He is handsome and popular with many women, but he has fears and social anxiety about people. Oba, like Dasai, was sexually assaulted by male and female servants. He had a childhood friend commit suicide that seems to have haunted him all his life. There’s a sense that these writers dare to describe what should never be described. What takes Junji Ito’s manga one step beyond even the stories of H.P. Lovecraft is that he dares to draw them as well as write them.

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 enigma draws public attention and news crews begin to report on it. Soon enough, people are coming from all over to see the human-shaped holes for themselves.Remina the girl soon becomes famous, then feared, as conspiracy takes hold of the people and they speculate that the planet is headed for its namesake. Also in the usual Ito style, his way of drawing facial expressions and emotions is consistently outstanding in Sensor. Junji Ito has created quite the impressive and haunting visual feat with his massive manga adaptation of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s fairly autobiographical novel about the dark impulses that lurk within us. Known for his horror manga-ka artwork,Junji Ito is the perfect artist to helm such a work of darkly introspective intensity, transforming Dazai’s prose of searing anxiety into visceral, surreal and hallucinogenic visual storytelling. At over 600pgs long, this is quite the dense and emotionally arresting work but Ito’s signature art and the seamless storytelling propel the book along as you feel yourself pulled deeper into the unraveling mind of Oba Yozo, the fictional narrator of Dazai’s story who draws much inspiration from the author himself. While Ito has taken a few liberties with the plot, this manga adaptation remains largely faithful to Dazai’s original and explores darkness, guilt and self-degradation in a viscerally chilling new angle through Ito’s incredible artwork. The final two stories in this list of Junji Ito manga can each be found in different places. This first story, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, can be read as a bonus final chapter in the book Gyo.