Keth Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 So after reading about his involvement in Silent Hills and seeing his crazy ass art I decided to read some of his stuff. I've downloaded Uzumaki and just finished the first Vol of it and it's fucking cool. Super creepy. I've also fallen in love with his art style. It's akin to the Scary Stories art work where it's just unsettling as hell. Any suggestions on where to go from here? Gyo looks interesting... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_U_SPACECOWBOY Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 (edited) Read The Enigma of Amigara Fault. It's a quick read and you can find it easy enough online. Edited September 30, 2015 by C_U_SPACECOWBOY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted October 1, 2015 Author Share Posted October 1, 2015 (edited) Apparently Baytor is the reason for all of this as he pointed me in the direction of Amigara Fault before the Silent Hills stuff came to light. It didn't even occur to me that the same author was responsible for it. So really thanks to Baytor for introducing me to Junji Ito without me realizing it Edited October 1, 2015 by Axels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keth Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 Junji is fucked up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 he really is, and part of me will never forgive konami for not giving us a silent hills with him designing the monsters also: was at a barnes & noble the other week and in the manga section, they had an Ito collection TPB, anyone else seen something like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 (edited) Just finished this. Fantastic book. The ending was alot quieter than Uzumaki (not as grand, but leaves it open for more stories), but the level of horror was on par. This is a legitimately creepy book, while also managing to be hilarious. I'd love to see Ito's art style applied to an Evil Dead comic or something. Edited July 20, 2017 by Axels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 nice! always happy to see something from Ito i've not yet read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The NZA Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 @Keth get over here 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 (edited) I think it's actually a year to the day that i started with Uzumaki and have been smashing through everything accessible since. Not that he gets as much creative credit for this one but he adapted an old Japanese novel called No Longer Human into a comic as well and while it's possibly the toughest read i've ever faced I have to give it it's due for, idunno, helping me? It's a deeply personal story but the overlap made it so fucking uncomfortable, wild all that shit happens anywhere outside of my own experience. Eh-nyway, I didn't like Gyo as much but it's an incredible story! Great ending. He wrote/drew this journal for his cats where he juxtapositions their weird behaviour with his brand of horror. Buying it for my nine year old daughter maybe wasn't my best choice... *PS I can qualify the year-to-a-day thing because i picked up Uzumaki when we stayed in the city for my boo's 40th and I tried some shit. @The NZA may recall actually getting a weird call from me about a week before that too(sorry again). Edited September 1 by Jables had to add more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 no longer human gets added to the list - since we're getting into spooky season, i stayed up one night last week & read through the first volume of Tomie, one of his earlier (i think?) works, it was great. it was also refreshing because i'd gone through too many mediocre/forgettable horror books in recent months, i knew he'd deliver. sitting on volume 2 this is probably as good a thread as any: few days ago, i was put onto a non-ito book called the summer hikaru died, blazed through all 4 volumes and now have to wait for the next one like a complete maroon. really dug it, not sure i'd make it a whole thread right now, given the ongoing nature of said book/the pool of like 3 of us reading this here, haha. but yeah, recommended so far! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted Monday at 10:59 AM Share Posted Monday at 10:59 AM I've been picking up more Ito books than any other comic because its, like you said above- a more guaranteed good time, so I have a bit of a backlog(because I've been making more effort to support my local store but don't like single issues and don't have Absolute edition money), so I have Tomie, Soichi and Frankenstein waiting to be read on my shelf, and I'm halfway though Black Paradox. Gonna find TSHD though because that looks good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted Tuesday at 07:09 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:09 AM oh man, i'm usually in for a good time, but ito's frankenstein is really good. like, i'd revisit that one good if you end up enjoying the summer hiakru died, feel free to make a thread & ill move these to that one - just kinda wanna see if anyone else is down to follow it & see where it goes, in another era i'd feel like @C_U_SPACECOWBOY,@Keth & @Panch Prime might be down for it the quick & dirty premise (spoils stuff within the first 10 pages): it's a high school summer year in japan, and the premise is that earlier on, hikaru went up a mountain that their small village said not to go, and his best friend (the protagonist) acknowledges that what came back down the mountain later...isn't his boy hikaru. it's been going in interesting places since, and again we're not far along enough for me to know if it jumps the shark a la death note/etc but it's one of those books i'm turning the page at times with both excitement & dread, and there's not a lot in recent years that pushes that combination, so i gotta get more folks on board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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