Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection

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His dialogue is as refined and precise as it is in Shelley’s version and it reveals just how faithful to the original Ito wanted to be.

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there are only a few differences and these have probably made the story more adaptable to its format. Ito has been inspired by horror since childhood, with his first manga being written about a protagonist with an eye in the middle of his hand, attacking him; this was heavily influenced by Shigeru Mizuki's Kappa no Sanpei.Frankenstein, romance escrito por Mary Shelley e publicado em 1818, conquistou o público desde o seu lançamento e se consolidou como uma obra-prima da literatura, povoando o imaginário e servindo de referência para diversas histórias até a atualidade. In the house where he lived, the bathroom was at the end of an underground tunnel, where there were spider crickets; such experiences were later reflected in his works. It's a relatively faithful adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel instead of the classic Universal monster film.

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Junji Ito’s original body of work often turns its human characters inside out to show how monstrous we truly are. One of the most important decisions any creator looking to adapt Frankenstein must contend with lies in the final design of the Creature, the thing Victor Frankenstein creates. In Uzumaki, he turns an obsession to spiral shapes into a metaphor on how people twist, turn, and contort to fit their strangest desires into their daily routines.It is only five or so pages in length but involves a strange plague that turns the children of the world into dolls and then into something worse. He has also found inspiration from Rakugo storytellers who tell Kaiden ghost stories, incorporating it into No Longer Human. Also, side note, I hated Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and I've never cared for the story or the monster so take that as you will. The second half of the book features loosely connected stories of Oshikiri, a short—this fact makes its way into every story in some way, yes—largely uninteresting and unpopular boy who is living alone in a large mansion which seems to feature an alternate dimension. r/junjiito is dedicated to legendary award-winning horror mangaka Junji Itō (伊藤潤二) and friends like Kazuo Umezz (楳図かずお), Hideshi Hino (日野日出志), and other horror mangaka.

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The connected short stories in the back half of the book are more typical of Ito's creepiness, as an evil boy discovers his home is a gateway to alternate dimensions.Who are the manga artists that have brought a different level of attention, a different mindset, and a different spin on the genres that have existed since the early days of manga? I can’t wait to read more of his work because the art is so good and he knows how to draw readers in. There are no gratuitous showings of gore and violence, and whatever makes it to the manga is there to serve the story. Film director Guillermo del Toro cited on his official Twitter account that Ito was originally a collaborator for the video game Silent Hills, of which both Del Toro and game designer Hideo Kojima were the main directors.