His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.

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. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. 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. A hurricane of puns ensue as Ito details what happened after he purchased it.Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. However, when Maria continues to grotesquely decay and mutate, including growing tentacles and hideously elongated limbs, her parents are forced to finally lay her to rest.Īn autobiographical account of a festival where a young Junji Ito finds a fake plastic shit that he knows he must have. They cannot understand why the parents of other victims of the disease throw their children away. When a young girl named Maria falls victim to the disease, her parents try to console themselves with the thought that she will always look like a beautiful doll, and can remain with them forever. In this story, children have begun falling victim to early onset 'doll's disease' which causes them to slowly turn into doll-like structures incapable of movement or speech. Junji Ito's adaption of the classic novel by Mary Shelley. The Cherished Collection, a re-print from 2000, contains two added chapters: Ito Junji's Dog Diary (detailing Ito's experiences of owning a dog named Lulu), and Fixed Face. To date, it has not been released officially in English, but has been scanlated in its entirety. The collected edition was first published in 1998. It was originally published in Japan in three parts from 1994 to 1998.

It is an adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. Frankenstein is the sixteenth volume in the Horror World of Junji Ito series.

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