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. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen. My emotions throughout the manga varied a ton of times from being happy to being sad. I did cry like 2 times during it as well King Yon" chronicles Yon's further unsuccessful attempt to escape, his unusual strength, and his position as dominant cat within the household. Junji Ito's Cat Diary appeared as an intermittent serial in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Magazine Z from 26 November 2007 [10] to 26 December 2008. [11] Kodansha collected the ten installments into a bound volume and published it on 13 March 2009. [12] Kodansha USA announced that it had obtained the manga's license at the 2015 Anime Boston convention, [13] and published the English-language translation in North America on 27 October 2015. [14] The English-language edition also included the pieces contributed by Ito and his wife for Teach Me, Michael! A Textbook in Support of Feline Disaster Victims (2011), a book which was intended to raise support for cat shelters after the Great Tohoku Earthquake. Their contributions consist of Ito's comic, "Yon Went to Heaven," and his wife's letter chronicling the death of Yon from heart failure on 3 February 2011, about a month before the earthquake, and their subsequent grieving. [15] Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam [16] and Italian by Panini Comics. [17] Reception [ edit ]

a b c d Stoup, Josiah (31 January 2016). "[Review] Junji Ito's Cat Diary". Otaku USA. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019 . Retrieved 9 November 2019.Ito’s works have been adapted multiple times. In addition to the Tomie adaptations, one of the most notable adaptations is the horror anime anthology series Junji Ito Collection. This 12-episode series adapts iconic Ito stories, including “Fashion Model,”“Shiver,” and “Smashed,” among many others. The little inserts in between chapters (little Q&A that was published along with the chapters in the original release, with some very funny scenes and facts) also add to the score.

This work showcases that perfectly. While he contains nightmarish depths, this displays how undeniably human he is. Nov 25 i☆Ris the Movie - Full Energy!! - Anime Film Teaser Visual Revealed at i☆Ris Live Stage in Anime NYC & i☆Ris First Performance in New York Successfully Completed this is a comedic-horror manga, and it speaks to those of us who have invited these little devils into our hearts and homes, and the everyday horrors we endure as a result. Minami, Nobunaga (5 April 2009). 伊藤潤二の猫日記 よん＆むー [著]伊藤潤二. asahi.com (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. In "Yon is a Weird Cat," J-kun, while finishing his manga on a tight deadline one night, imagines that Yon transforms into various beings, including a slug, the supernatural snake-like creature tsuchinoko, and an elderly man. To J-kun's surprise, this leads to an encounter that he hopes isn't a hallucination.Ito’s work is popular across the globe, but especially in the United States, where his influence can be seen in many contemporary artists’ works. Ito is also often referenced in Western pop culture. For instance, his work was referenced in the TV show Steven Universe, when characters go into human-shaped holes. 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. 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.

My biggest takeaway from this book is that it is incredibly funny. There were more than a few points where I found myself laughing out loud, which doesn’t usually happen with Junji Ito comics. I mean, there are darkly-humorous parts in each of his works, but to call any of them a comedy would be a mighty big stretch. And that’s one more way that “Cat Diary” is different. At the end of things, this feels like a comics that’s supposed to be funny before anything else.Lieberman, Marissa (16 December 2015). "Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu". No Flying, No Tights. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019 . Retrieved 14 December 2019. Here though he’s telling simple and comedic moments about his own life with his fiancée and her two cats… but he’s a horror artist through and through, so how does he tell this tale? As if the cats are monsters invading his life. He frequently will draw them ominously staring at him, he will draw distorted faces in horror (and his fiancée is almost always drawn with just blank white eyes). Despite the imagery (and maybe even because of it) the comedy works even better as these monstrous creatures slowly win over his dog loving heart. it's a pretty adorable, and very accurate account of the monsters that inhabit those little scraps of fur we spend all day feeding and catering to. a b c d e f Silverman, Rebecca (16 January 2016). "Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019 . Retrieved 9 November 2019.