It’s rare that the Japanese address the militarism of World War 2, so it’s especially impressive that Ito confronts those issues in a manga, of all things. The story reveals that these mechanical monsters were part of a Japanese World War 2 military project gone awry. Look no further than Gyo, Ito’s story about robotic walkers that emerge from the sea and take over all living creatures they come across. Ito can also get political with his horror manga while still remaining terrifying. The story itself is definitely worth a read, but the endless parodies are equally awesome everything from classic American comic characters Archie and Jughead to everybody’s favorite sponge are involved in the enigma: Gyo Each hole is perfectly shaped like one of the town’s inhabitants, and each one of them feels strangely attracted to these holes.
Ito has basically reached meme status on the internet with his creepy story “The Enigma of Amigara Fault,” a short story about mysterious, body-shaped holes that open up in a mountainside. Watch the trailer for the film and decide for yourself: It’s cool to see the manga come alive, but I think that the story is a lot scarier when your imagination generates the sounds, movements, and atmosphere of the town and its inhabitants. A woman becomes obsessed with her fingerprints and inner ear – the spirals of her body.Īnd like lots of Ito manga, Uzumaki has been turned into a full-length movie. Smoke from chimneys begin spiraling into the air. A boy sprouts a spiral shell and turns into a snail. A girl’s hair turns into spirals and takes on a life of its own. Slowly, the spiral takes a hold of each and every person in the town. It starts out innocently enough: a man in the town starts collecting objects with spirals on them, but his obsession soon gets out of hand. One of Ito’s best stories, in my opinion, is Uzumaki, a story about a town obsessed with spirals. Let’s take a look at some of my five favorite stories from Mr. Ito’s stories are about ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural phenomenon, and they do not have happy endings.
He’s been writing and drawing horror manga for nearly thirty years now, and in that time he’s churned out some of the eeriest, creepiest manga known to man. Junji Ito’s is the scariest ex-dental-technician you’ll ever meet. And nobody is better known for horror manga than Junji Ito. Now horror manga, on the other hand, is very much fair game. Part of that means that there’s all types of manga from manga made for kids to instructional manga and much more specialized manga.īut this is Halloween Week, so we don’t care about those kind of stories. The Japanese are known for their manga comics and animation are arguably a much bigger part of Japanese culture than other countries.
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