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Over the weekend at San Diego Comic Con, horror manga creator Junji Ito received a major accolade when he was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. VIZ Media, Ito’s main American publisher, shared a subtitled video of the creator sharing his …Read more »
Junji Ito is back with another volume of The Liminal Zone! Newly translated into English, this collection offers four new stories from the horror manga master. One revisits The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: a new series cut down after just two chapters. While the new installment is (as …Read more »
Junji Ito’s Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, is out in time for Halloween and a great read for both fans of Ito’s work and fans of horror. In fact, anyone who’s interested in the creative process could get helpful tidbits from this work. Uncanny: the …Read more »
Junji Ito first made a splash with North American fans back when the excellent and still-missed PULP magazine was serializing the Uzumaki manga. His inimitable work in the field of horror manga has well and truly exploded in recent years, and now an adaptation is …Read more »
With Adult Swim’s Uzumaki finally on its way, and Halloween just around the corner, we have Junji Ito on the brain yet again. The horror manga master has thrilled and terrified generations of fans. And if you’ve ever wondered how his mind works, a new book …Read more »
Through the Lens Entertainment (TTLE) and FANGORIA are teaming up to adapt Junji Ito short stories into films. News first broke last year when FANGORIA revealed it would be adapting “Bloodsucking Darkness.” Now it adds the short stories “Haunted House Part 1” and “Part 2” …Read more »
Alley is the latest short story collection from horror icon Junji Ito to be published by VIZ Media. The first story, the titular “Alley,” is a creepy tale where a young man moves into a boardinghouse near an alley and thinks he hears kids. But …Read more »
Many Junji Ito manga, by their very nature, don’t lend themselves to recurring characters. When the fate of your protagonists ranges from being twisted into a spiral to being squeezed out the business end of an ancient mountain crevice, you don’t really invite a lot …Read more »
Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection consists entirely of short stories involving Ito’s character Soichi, a creepy boy who curses people and likes to put nails in his mouth. There are 10 stories: “A Happy Summer Vacation,” “A Happy Winter Vacation,” “Soichi’s Happy Diary,” “Soichi’s Home …Read more »
Junji Ito, the master of horror manga, has another award to add to his shelf: Comic-Con International’s Inkpot, which is awarded to “individuals for their contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation, and fandom services.” Other manga-ka winners of the award …Read more »
Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection offers up nine macabre tales from one of Japan’s most successful horror manga authors. Similar to Ito’s other work, the stories often involve nightmarish scenarios coming out of real-world situations. The cause of the nightmares may never get fully explained, …Read more »
Horror mangaka Junji Ito is known for writing manga involving people’s fears. And in an interview with the Japanese site 4Gamer, he revealed one of his fears: that AI will replace artists. He shuddered at the thought of future manga being made by AI instead …Read more »
Junji Ito’s short story “Bloodsucking Darkness” is being turned into a live-action American feature film, and Ito himself is producing. It’s being backed by Fangoria Studios, the recently-made studio that’s an offshoot of the popular Fangoria magazine. Ito shared his excitement about the project. “Fangoria …Read more »
It won’t be too much longer before Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre premieres on Netflix to spook audiences. Ahead of the series’ January 19 start, a trailer has been released that shows clips of all the twenty stories being adapted from Ito’s …Read more »
Black Paradox is a self-contained one-volume manga that opens with an unusual scenario: four strangers are meeting in public so they can commit suicide as a group. They get in a car together, share their existential reasons for wanting to die, and plan it out. …Read more »
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