Silverman wrote that A-ko's terrifying appearance reflected her love for her cats, in that she appeared "as creepy as many of us cat owners fear we do.

Other than that, this is perfect and if you want to explore more of Junji Ito's work, but you're finding the horror hard to get into, this is the book for you! Faustine Lillaz of Planete BD, in contrast, wrote that the humor of the manga would have a wide appeal. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga.I'm giving 4 stars because I think some ink may not have dried properly, leaving a mark on some of the text where it was hard to read. This cat diary is drawn in his typical horror style and has similar pacing to a horror manga but it laugh out loud hilarious. Style [ edit ] J-kun attempts to play with the cats, to no avail; his mouth becomes more horrific as he fails to capture their interest. Skonstruowana z luźnych scenek, które przedstawiają codzienne życie z perspektywy kogoś, kto pierwszy raz ma stały kontakt z mruczkami i zaaatraaaca się w miłości do nich.

It's very funny and it's actually authentic, because you will also get a bonus gallery of Ito's real life cats, who look exactly like Yon and Muu. You may have run into the little bit where Yon almost eats Junji Ito's dinner back when we were all waiting for this to get translated already. Ito used the opportunity to draw on his anecdotes of living with the cats, [1] and his wife advised him on the manga's storyboards and depicting the personalities of the cats. A-ko's appearance, with her almost entirely white eyes, has also been noted to share similarities with yokai, supernatural Japanese entities.

A Textbook in Support of Feline Disaster Victims (2011), a book which was intended to raise support for cat shelters after the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The cats scratch things, make messes, bite, make him feel unworthy, all the things that cats do and he's documented it here for our absolute enjoyment.

He bounces between being afraid of the cat and having an uncontrollable urge to smother it with affection. His most notable works include Tomie, Uzumaki, and Gyo, which were all published in the United States and have also been adapted to film and animation.Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his fiancée, A-ko, to live with him. For example, one scene in which J-kun attempts to play with the cats starts within Ito's realistic style, only to have J-kun quickly devolve visually into a monster as he becomes more upset that the cats respond to his wife's attempts at playing with them but not his; his features become exaggerated and horrific, while the cats, however, lose their sense of motion and activity from earlier and become "stiffly realistic" at his failed attempts to play with them.

In "Yon Attacks," J-kun dreads the arrival of Yon, whom he believes has cursed skull markings on his back. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections.

Previously, Ito had drawn cats as frightening but had recently drawn a "very cute" cat in a way that appeared to capture the "essence" of cats, thus convincing the editor. She names the kitten Mu, since he will be the sixth cat her family has kept, with her mother's cat, Goro, being the fifth. Upon publication, the manga received a favorable critical and commercial response, debuting in The New York Times 's weekly list of the ten best-selling manga volumes. Thus ensues a long journey of a man trying desperately to make two moody cats adore him while also upholding the facade of not caring if they do or don't.