The Manga Stories That Terrified Me
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I love how hanging balloons seems to directly address the audience member who would say "well just-" pop the balloon? Still dead. Protect the neck? Still dead. Fill the nose? Dead dead dead.
I think the only other thing to try would be to cut off the rope itself where it wouldn't have enough length to form a noose.
alexandra galici True, to bad we couldn't see that, just would've made the whole situation even more hopeless.
That or it decapitates you.
Yeah, that one messed me up for a few nights.
What if you cut the rope?
"Man, am I tired. I need some sleep."
*Junji Ito:* "You think so, huh?"
xD every god damn time. I read his manga only at afternoon and they still haunt me in the night
Huh. They're right. This guy is everywhere.
I was up all night after reading his manga
🙂
*Me reading Long Dream before going to bed*
Junji's mind is probably the most horrific place.
I bet it's all smiles and sunshine
Our nightmares are his dreams
im pretty sure he also writes cute biographical manga about his wife and cats which maybe makes it even more scary. all this horrific shit coming from a pretty pleasant regular dude
@@emilypower8668 i agree, what's more scary than a normal person that can come up with horrors like it's easy.
Not necessarily, there are people who write fiction about everyday life without having to be horror, but they can still scare you. Contrast and compare a Cronenberg body horror film to something like American History X, their both just as disturbing.
I paused this to go read "The Engima of Amighara Fault" and Jesus Christ. Clever and horrifying. I'll have to read "The Hanging Balloons" now.
yeah i read junji ito uzumaki and the fault story, both great and terrifying
Don't forget Hellstar Remina, It's great, too
Hanging balloons fucked me up
u should read all of it
@@jmorel42 I swear that story wouldn't scare me so bad if they didn't have those uncanny faces.
My favorite part of Ito's work is that there is often no how or why for the events that happen. Horrible events befall characters that did nothing to deserve it. Creatures appear with no explanation as to where they come from and seem to exist just to torture the protagonists. It almost gives the sense that the Ito's universe is cruel and mischievous.
That's because all good horror never show the monster or explain how it works or where it came from. Or, in Ito's case, the "monster" can be a concept, such as spirals.
I think the weakest part of _Gyo_ was when he tried to "explain" the monsters in terms that, if you know the actual science, becomes pure nonsense. It definitely takes something from the story when you keep telling yourself "wait, that's not how that work".
Yeah. It helps build up the fear.
That's kind of how most Japanese monsters and ghosts work.
@alexandra galici umm that s very specific. i dont think there are a lot of cases like that lmao
It’s the way he draws terrified eyes..it’s flawless
Well...Amigara Fault is a horror version of the game show Hole in the Wall
(Edit: Holy crap, did not expect so many likes on my silly joke. Thanks!)
sailormoon262 lmao shook
Feel it would be an SCP or something
Damn it hahahaha
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Something I also like about the Hanging Balloons is the implications you can read from it regarding myhtology and folk lore.
Especially Japanese folk-lore.
Basically, if people believe in or worship something enough, it will be brought into reality by the people believing it.
In Hanging Balloons, the celebrity kills herself by hanging, making other people follow a similar path. The sorrow and spiritual nature of the town - because of these suicides - makes it as though the people in the town "worship" suicide by hanging. It's talked about all the time, people consider going the same way, and with all the spiritual traditions and rituals already taking place, I think it's fitting that these Hanging Balloons are born from the imagination of the townspeople. If enough emotion and tradition/ritual take place, if it's worshipped, it can make things manifest. They brought it on themselves.
I really like that idea of human imagination actually being the creator of *actual* creatures; especially in stories, because in a way, Junji Ito _Did_ bring the hanging balloons into existence.
I think those phenomena are called egregores. Really crazy stuff.
@@magencrisis1682 Only saw this now, but thanks for telling me a good collective name for that phenomenon! :D
It is a way to look at it, albeit i think in the story it is implied the celebrity is "a first victim", the noose of her ballon just getting caught in an electric cable and snapping which is why her head floats around passively, also it was an odd suicide and apparently had no reason for it nor previous incidences. It is even implied that a lot of the "copy-cat" suicides may be because of the balloons, even if there are some real ones; thou the whole dissappeared fan group obviously is because of the balloons.
Could be, reversely, following your line of though, that the ballon was created without a noose because she was already hanged, which could be supported from the standpoint that its the only balloon directly shown to have suffered said fate, in a context where it should been relatively common, everything is full of cables, trees and so, but, it would be a fallacy to take that as an argument rather than just a factor. Afterall, the copycat suicides in the trees may have been because of the same snapping process.
Off course Junji Ito, its a shame Silent Hills got cancelled. His version of Body Horror would fit perfectly with Carpenter's the Thing or David Cronenberg.
Fuck Konami.
I hope Kojima brought him to work on Death Stranding.
Umm I don't think so but who knows, that would be a nice surprise.
@@lizardlord4k and hope he gets the rights to Zone Of the Enders and Gradius.
I was thinking the same thing! Junji Ito, Guillermo Del Toro AND MGS' director??? PT was an amazing work of horror and I do hope someone commissions Junji Ito for a horror game, soon.
I don't really care when or how but I really hope Ito gets the chance to work on a horror game. It would really bring in a breath of fresh air to the genre and hopefully show game developers that people want to see new and interesting ideas to the horror genre.
I actually like the fact that the characters are somewhat “empty”; they’re ready to be filled with the readers themselves. The story is never really focused on the characters as individuals, but on the way their world comes undone around them.
And rather than a character whose name we will remember for their character traits, they in our eyes become the people we know and see around us. They are everyone of us.
And that makes it even more harrowing. The futility of existence and how small and insignificant we are compared to the darkness that the stories portray make the stories even more powerful in my eyes.
He should do a video on shuzo oshimi who wrote inside Marie, happiness and a trail of blood. I know eyepatch wolf did a video about that but I'd like to see Ryan's take on it.
Unfortunately, it never works for me because I almost always get automatically get attached to characters regardless of how well-written they are (,:
Surreal horror is, in my opinion, simultaneously the most subtle and most terrifying of all horror. Deeply, deeply unnerving stuff, and at the risk of sounding insane, a great source of these bizarre, troubling images is the rarely talked about but amazing Ren and Stimpy Show.
because i also love the work of junji ito as you guys seem to do, i recommend crossed
Nothing like falling in love with a beautiful girl like Tomie only to find out she's pretty much Batman's Two-Face behind closed doors.
Omg! You're so right! That show deeply disturbed me and at times it was unclear why. Then there were times where it was VERY CLEAR haha.
"the army of one" is a hounting story that afects a whole city and use the murders as an artistic display of morbid horror. i love it.
When I started reading and watching horror mangas it was so refreshing for me. It was like returning to that pure horror feel I used to have as a little kid watching horror flicks, tense moments in movies or waking up in the middle of the night.
And that is what any terror tale in any format should do, make you face the horror in the purest form.
Vicente Ortega Rubilar have you read ibitsu?
Lmao wtf you're crazy i you enjoyed waking up in the middle of the night from creepy dreams
Where can I read these? Are they on kissmanga??? The super wolf!
Captain Yasopp Uzumaki is.
So is Remina
@@yourmom9931 Thank you I really wanna read that uzimaki!
Indeed our lord has spoken! And his wor- numbers... well his punctuation mark (not that one) and his number three, are glorious!
My personal favorite Ito story is Hellstar Remina, one of his most apocalyptic creations. The thought of a planet-sized entity treating the entire Earth as a snack is nauseating. The human characters are insignificant dust particles.
Apocalypses have existed, but I never witnessed one where the entire world wanted to kill the protagonist by the very same reason she became famous: A fuckin name. And unlike other stories where people are unknowingly hindering their savior, this is just a woman suffering the apocalypse with ten times the utter despair of dying in massive hate.
Hellstar Remina is also my favorite. It has the most Lovecraftian feeling to me. A cosmic, immortal horror who just doesn't care about humans. An insane cult doing their best to appease this thing who would never notice them.
You might like this:
Horror Show Presents: Hellstar Remina (Chapter 1)
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I believe the brilliance of hellstar Remina comes from the almost satirical take on outrage culture and how disgusting pretty much everyone in the book is.
Monroville I saw you in Puppet Combo videos
Amagari Fault can also be interpeted as "our desire to find our place" or "putting ourselves into a shape"
I always saw it as just a metaphor for life; we have to keep moving forward, no matter what circumstances twist us into due to our compulsion to keep going.
Whereas the hanging balloons was about the inevitability of death, amigara fault was about the inevitability of life (which is somehow more terrifying).
Amigara Fault is tapping into the fear of things we don't know we have. The characters are unexplainably compelled to seek and enter their hole despite it leading to their undoing, and in turn are horrified by nothing but themselves. This is meant to make the readers think "what if there's something very frightening in this world, and I already have that thing inside me and there's no way to know what it is and how to stop it?". It's a parallel to the question "what if one day I find a hole shaped like me?" and that's the source of the lingering horror. Now you'll never be comfortable with yourself because you know that you are just as threatened by yourself as you are by other external threats.
Stumbling across Junji Ito for the first time is like discovering a new fetish. You're like "Whoa, this is weird..." at first, but after you're done you just think "Oh. So that's what I'm into."
Only with chills instead of thrills.
I have literally never read anything more accurate in my entire life. Congratulations you win the internet for today 😂
i read this and i thought you were implying that junji itos work is similar to the stuff you like sexually and i was gobsmacked
@@leosweed5317 lol nah, I'm not that twisted.
@@ramirezthesilvite im glad😭
Finally, someone else who gets off to his work!
Edit: Yep, misread that pretty bad
I’m just happy I haven’t found a manga where Ito ruins the safe haven that is *the blanket*
@-kale- God no more plush chairs. only swivel.
Ummm what about his story "futon"?
The futon
Coralia .I homestuck detected
@Designer Fetish NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Funnily enough I love Junji Itos book about his cats. I've read most of his other works and before reading Yon&Mu I got this impression that he was a twisted, horrifying genius with a dark, unfathomable mind akin to Lovecraft. Clearly a man who could come up with something as nightmarish as Group Suicide or The Bully was so far beyond my understanding it left me in nervous awe.
Then I read Yon&Mu and realised he's actually a massive dork XD . And if anything that made me love his work more.
Cat diary made me cry. Such a good story . well , it's based on real events , but it's important to me .
Same for me. Before reading cat diary his work terrified me and made me uncomfortable but after reading his more lighthearted work I realised he’s just a guy that loves drawing horror manga
“HOW DARE YOU DINE AND DASH”
Makes you realize creativity doesn’t equate to mental state. The dude is insanely creative, the fact that he can create such horrifying stories despite being such a chill and almost dorky dude just confirms how talented of an artist he is.
Most horror writers are actually the sweetest, dorkiest people ever. My theory is that they get all the murder out on paper
I'm a huge Ito fan, and my favorite series of his is definitely Uzumaki, which is to me the peak of cosmic horror. I think my favorite short is "The Long Dream", in which a man is afflicted by a condition that makes his dreams incredibly long, lasting days, months, even several thousand years purely in his own mind, while his physical body bears the stress of it. I adore the concept, which Ito plays with masterfully, and one of my favorite things to think about is said by the doctor in the ending (vague spoilers): "She feared death. More than anything, she feared becoming nothing. But if she could have an eternal dream, then what would happen? It means her mind would continue to live forever! Even if it's only a momentary delusion! And if we can establish a technology that allows humanity to have an eternal dream... then we will be forever freed from the fear of death."
My favorite is either Magami Nanakuse, Long Dream, or Fashion Model.
Always happy to see someone talking about Junji Ito. :)
Hanging balloons is probably my favorite I'd say. But it's hard to choose.
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The “I am a hero” spin-off one shot that Junji Ito did, titled “She is a slow walker” always chilled me to the bone. The thought of waking to the sight of your significant other attempting to eat your face is absolutely horrifying to me and the panel that illustrates it has been burned into my mind forever.
I love your channel but it's so dark in my room why are you doing this to me? Also the "How media scared us" was the video that got me into horror.
I had liked it beforehand but it gave me such more insight to what it takes to compose horror. It’s a really interesting video.
Literally just got into junji it a few days ago because of that same video
AshIsReallyTired im not as scared of horor anymore after that video now i just look behind the scary fact and look at how the scene is make
AshIsReallyTired do you suggest I watch that video first? Or can I watch this first and still enjoy how media scares us
I've gotten into the author recently. Thanks to my library
After digesting uzumaki I realized that junji surpassed any other horror writer I’ve heard of, good shit
I remember that Junji Ito manga on this man that kept apologising and he had a creepy sister that sucked melted brains.
She had the most terrifying look on her face, I couldn't sleep for ages.
Dissolving Classroom. It's awesome.
Literally just read this one! It was bad, but there have been worse. For example, Uzumaki where the girl has the spiral eating away her skull.
What is the name of this manga? Junji Ito’s work is so freaking incredible, I swear.
@@paigeconnelly4244 Ive always hated the one who can hear things and something to do with ear. I rarely squirm but Ito got me there :(
You reminded me of her. Goddamn it.
If Kojima decides to make P.T. Silent Hill again I wish Junji Ito were one of the creative director?
He was originally going to work on the project with Del Toro as well... sad how a company issue led to the termination of a culmination from three brilliant minds.
@@beatrice0610 I think Kojima is inviting Junji again for his next game.
Oh fuck yeah. That would make it so interesting!!!
Ooo that’s a cool idea
I rather not have Kojima considering how obnoxious and pretentious his recent works were.
The one I've found the most terrifying is The Bully, it's so deeply unsettling and what makes it way worse for me is that this sort of things do happen, there's no supernatural stuff here just plain awful mean humans and innocent victims... and that image of Kuriko towards the end scared the shit out of me. Yet my favorite is actually The Window Next Door because *spoiler*
the boy presumedly actually lives and move out of that house at the end. It was a relieving end for a change
I love the window next door.
The bully unnerved me because of how real it could be. And, in the end, Kuriko and Nao were both monsters. Kuriko tormented Nao for years. As she grew up, she became a normal person. And after reconnecting with Nao, he made his feelings believe, then left her to raise their son. The only thing on his mind was getting revenge. And Kuriko reverted back to a bully to torment what was left of Nao. Their son. Nao left his child behind to get revenge. Kuriko used her child to cope. In the end, the only innocent one was the child. It's sad.
"Gallows humor." Ha. Ha, I get it.
This is what happens when the Foundation doesn't do it's job...
Christian Blanchard ah i see you’re a man of culture as well...
MY DUDE CAN YOU GIVE A HEADS UP BEFORE YOU POP IN FOOTAGE FROM THE GRUDGE YOU GAVE ME AN ACTUAL HEART ATTACK
You got game ended
WAIT GIVE ME A TIMESTAMP PLEASE
Pamber 13 04:46
@@melon1707 thank you
A *HEADS UP* i see what you did there
Amigara's Fault is more about the roles imposed to us by society. How fitting into a role may seem comfortable at first but slowly changes us for the worse. We become alien to ourselves, like those horrid shapes on the other side.
After just looking at it as a really great horror story, I started thinking about the underlying implications in narrative and came to see it as a commentary on conformity and the pressures of society.
It doesn't really fit that interpretation: their compulsion is genuine and personal, nobody is forcing them to go there.
I get it I've seen my brother change personality-wise ever since he became a cop. He drinks more and has a much shorter fuse. There are family rumors he might be abusing his wife now. He's slowly turning into something else something I can't recognize
Great application to our lives today
I think it's more about people who went into human shaped holes.
is "gallows humor" a pun because they're hanging them?
I remember Junji Ito's work on Bully.
It was different in comparisons to his other work as it seemed more realistic and definitely something possible to happen in real life.
Yet it was one of the most terrifying ones, that one image at the end jesus christ.
While Ito has a lot of scary stories, I do agree with you that Bully has to be one of his more darker stories, mostly cause it presents such a REAL horror.
It didn't make me terrified as much as it did make me sad. I hate people who act like petulant entitled child and by extension characters who act like it. The bully is really one of the characters I strongly dislike.
One of the reasons I wasn't scared is probably because the story has no real victim or at least relatable victim. The first boy was a stupid one who subjected himself to the whims of the bully and the second boy, her son, just is unfortunate and we don't really see his suffering. It's just alluded to.
It's also strongly based on "Wuthering Heights". At least, I saw many strong parallels; especially the former victim coming back for twisted and elaborate romantic revenge.
@@harehnkaundun1406Just because you fail to be a human being doesn't mean the story is not scary. Have a little empathy
@@ArguablyTheWorst I mean I didn't find it scary so much as tragic.
I grew up both bullied and abused, fictional bullying just makes me sad.
"AH YOU SON OF A BIACH! WHY! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!"
Haven't read a lot of Ito but my friend made me read the grease one.
Oh god The Grease One.
Try reading that while eating ice cream.
(God, I was a fool.)
@@dokuganryu1565 Try eating that, and looking up to see some kid on the train with you popping a zit or a pimple.
I gagged just reading this comment.
@@imthecoolestguyalive Has that happened to you, pal?
@@dokuganryu1565 Pffft, no, of course not, I'm definitely a happy and not-afraid individual, who _totally_ isn't afraid that some child will facehug him, and squeeze grease into his face, nah, totally fine.
(I actually almost gagged after that. Don't touch your zits and pimples, kids.)
I highly recommend Tomie. There's an amazing hardback on Amazon that has all the books in one. It was started in 1987, and ended in 2000, so you can really see his art style develop over time. The story from chapter to chapter is disconnected, more of a theme than anything, but it's chilling in all the right ways.
Uzumaki is a classic, and Gyo is just a never-ending escalation that leaves you breathless by the end. But nothing compares to Tomie.
My sweet Tomie.
So Beautiful...
hmmm sounds intersting might check it out on amazon
I also found Tomie to be his most interesting and frightening work. Interesting because of how he portrayed the mechanics of a demon's body, and frightening because cancerous and exploitative people like her actually exist.
@@MurasakiMonogatari I think the analogy of Tomie's regeneration is because the crimes against women will (almost) never be brought into light by Japanese society, and will happen over and over again.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault truly disturbed me. Now, i've read more of Ito's work, and i am prepared for the torture the protagonist ia about to face. However, ignorant me was not aware of this when reading Amigara Fault and while i thought the story was sad, and creepy and mystic, i thought it would end there. Most western horrors (aka Hollywood movies, creepypastas ect) would either show some body horror or preferably leave the ending ambiguous (which by it's nature is slightly horrifying), i NEVER expected to hear of or SEE the mangled bodies at the end. This is the part that DISTURBS. There seems to be a mental limit of what we picture. Either due to our own mental censoring, or the media (like the worst gore being slightly off screen and we only see the blood splatter, the twitching hand, the noises ect). But Ito disturbs by A) bypassing our existing mental barriers, and B) taking the result in a completely different way than we expect. We are most disturbed when we are shocked. We are most shocked when we do no expect the outcome. Someone is shot in the head, you expect a bullet hole. Someone is stabbed, you expect blood. This is not shocking. What IS shocking, is seeing a woman's face melt off because her boyfriend is begging for her forgiveness.
The SCP Foundation: It might take a bit to get into the style of it, but it's a bunch of creepy stories portrayed in a clinical fashion as the documents of this organization that seeks out supernatural objects, entities, locations and the like, figures out how to contain them, and systematically suppresses information so that the general public has no idea that there's e.g. a teleporting cup that can kill you, a statue that predicts natural disasters and requires human sacrifice to stop them, or a predator that telepathically disguises itself as clothing or food.
Funnily enough, the attached tales are often more interesting than the SCPs themselves. Also, there's a significant amount of comedy, like with SCP-914. However, going through the SCPs is a monumental task.
My favorite is any work dealing with the antimemetics division.
Just imagine if Junji ever decided to do a manga series on a few of them >.>
Also the SCP foundation: Dr.Bright
@@someguy1313
SCP Foundation: Dr. Bright, not the children!
Dr. Bright: YES THE CHILDREN!
Or IKEA!
Give I Am A Hero a try. It’s one of the most refreshing takes on zombie fiction I’ve ever seen, and the art is drop-dead gorgeous.
Yeah it'ts very refreshing i'am half way through
Ugh the ending is so terrible to me though. It builds and builds and then some mindfuck weirdness and then boredom.
Also check the “I am a hero in....” series. it’s a collection of stories with new characters from the different cities in Japan (Osaka, Nagasaki, ect...)
The best zombie fiction made by japanese. 100x better than that shitty ass highschool of the dead.
Can you give me a brief summary on "I am a hero" ?
Oh man, I remember reading Amigara fault back in year 8. Really creeped me out, but I kept going back and re-reading it. It still randomly pops into my head to this day.
My favourite Junji Ito manga is Uzumaki, hands down! I couldn't stop reading it for hours, and once it was done I was both satisfied and disappointed it wasn't more epic. But it had a very fun narrative, and i loved the mystery surrounding it all and the fan theories as to why the people dont just leave when shits getting weird haha
I just was amazed that the manga made me paranoid of spirals. I feel like that the very end, the falling into the cavern part, was weak for an end, I loved the buildup , people turning into snails left and right and all people jammed into houses.
Is that what you meant when you say you wanted more epic?
Well he even explains that they try to get away but end up being lost in the city or somehow get irritated and get back to the city anyway.
Huge same. My first experience with Junji was Tomie, but it was the gorgeous, and eerie art of Uzumaki that really made me fall in love with his stories. I remember having to order volumes 2 and 3 from my local bookstore because they weren't in stock anywhere (this was before Amazon's glory days) and would count down the days until they arrived, then would just sit in front of the store and read the entire volume because I couldn't wait until I got home. I have yet to find another horror artist that's given me that same feeling
I happened across my library's copy of "Dissolving Classroom" one day while shelf reading before we opened. I was so hooked I read it in one day. I then went on to read Tomie, which is my current favorite.
How could Uzumaki even become more epic? It's grandeur is astonishing. Literally culminating in a reveal of an underground realm made up out of spirals, towering higher than mountain peaks, with the bodies of millions of people transformed into parts of a gigantic whole to make up a dizzying, hellish landscape of what the protagonists have been trying to flee from.
To this day, the final pages of Bully still rock me to my core lol Junji Ito is truly brilliant when it comes to horror
This Ryan dude is the cat's pyjamas. I want to caress his beard
This is so random yet accurate I love it
I love that in 2018 there are still people out there who use the phrase "the cat's pyjamas".
Video: * about one of the best horror mangakas of our time *
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I mean, Junji Ito did do manga about him living with cats.
Not even any crazy horror shit happens. It's just a story about a dude trying to get his cats to like him.
My favorite story was his manga "Black Paradox". Starting with a disturbing premise on it's own of a suicide pact and then... going places...
Not to spoil too much as the story has significant twists and turns, it plays on the ideas of the literal value of human life and human soul in ways that left a lasting impact on my mind in a way nothing else did.
10/10 would get scarred again.
Yeah, I'll give a thousand bucks to anyone who can predict where the story is headed after the first couple chapters of that one.
Sounds like I'll regret that reading... I'm in!
The one about the Spirit stone right?
My friend recommended the Enigma one, and I usually an used to disturbing things, but it genuinely unnerved me. I don't know why either, it didn't really scare me or make me sleep badly, it just made me feel something deep inside that was odd and primal and unnerving in general. It was cool, honestly
Damn, what a stunning... horrifying take on an almost art-pop style.
The Enygma of Amigara Fault was my first introduction to Jinjo Ito's work, too. It took me a few weeks until I was looking up more of his work, because it left a very haunting impression on me. I too, sometimes have a illogical fear of doing something damaging to myself out of weird compulsion, like suddenly jumping down my 5th floor balcony. I know I would die, I know I would never do this. But when I look down, I imagine doing that and I feel something makes me want to do it. So Amygara Fault hit me psychological.
The phenomenon you're talking about is called 'call of the void' and many people, myself included, experience it. For me, the fact that it's pretty common makes it less scary.
That feeling is called the call of the void, I think that was what junji ito was trying to portray when he was making the enigma of amigaris fault
that fault comic literally horrified my best friend and i for MONTHS,,,, i am so glad that somebody else has finally recognized the terror that plagued us and put it so eloquently!! bless
amagara fault didn't do anything to me tbh. It's probably one of my least favorite stories by him
@Kein Herz アニ Maybe, maybe not.
Junji Ito’s work is literally the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. No film (except the Shining), no manga, no audio recording can top the uncanny feeling he gives
Waiting to see what you have planned for October
So am I...
Ito himself is an adorable man tho c,:
What a coincidence, I just finished reading Shiver. Your video has postponed me spooning out my eyes.
Pills Here!
To me Junji is like Japanese HP Lovecraft with illustration. And I love it. Like Lovecraft who’s words gave you mental images of cosmic horrors , Junji’s art makes you think up the cosmic horrors that brought these images to their page.
I always loved uzimaki for its like lovecraft influences
Love the focus on hanging balloons. I’ve scoured every inch of ito’s work and that one STILL sticks with me and unnerves me the most
I've never heard of this artist, but I want to read every single thing he has ever placed on this earth right now! thank you again for introducing me to something amazing. I read the Harlan Ellison story and i've had nightmares ever since. But awesome nightmares!
If you really like his work, check out a show called Paranoia Agent! Ito worked on it himself!
matty d will do!
Crysis Persists what’s the Harlan Ellison story called?
@@MJAYMONONOKE I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. He did a really great video about it.
You will love every fcking single manga by him. And thirst for more!
Amigara fault left me deep impression when I read it for the first time.
During the end just before the resolution I remember thinking "Oh it is just going to be another too horryfying to see scenarios" and turned the page.
Lets just say that was the first time I've experienced a jumpscare in a manga, if you get my meaning.
I met Junji Ito's work through the Junji Ito collection anime, and while I thought it was decent I saw someone's video saying how terrible it was and how it fails to capture the essence of Junji Ito's storytelling and art style and recommended that if you really want to see how good his stories really are, then read his mangas, and that's what I did, starting by the Gyo story, and I thought it was a mixture of ridiculous and terrifying, dead fishes and sharks walking in land through some secret WW2 devices, and while I thought it was ridiculous, I also thought it was fascinating because of how unexpected it was, and I ended up reading more and more of his story through the entire night, and while none of them really scare me I fell in love with Junji Ito's work.
Gyo is a bit weak unfortunately. Uzumaki is still his best work in my opinion
@@km099 It definitely is (hellstar is also amazing). Gyo isn't one of my favorites, although it makes me nostalgic since it was the third work of his I read as a kid (after Tomie and Uzumaki), but it shouldn't be discounted. There are some really amazing and disturbing scenes in it, even if the whole work isn't as strong as his other stuff
@@shinigamiinochi I agree, Hellstar was a great read!
What's must unsettling is that those stories are so distubring yet Junji himself is so precious
Please, please, do separate videos on Tomie and Uzumaki!
I love all of his work, but I'd probably have to say Long Dream is my favorite. There's something about the brutal hopelessness of Japanese horror that Ito captures perfectly, and his stark artwork just slaps you in the face with that terror and hopelessness. He's truly a horror genius.
I can listent to you talking about junji ito all day
Junji Ito's mangas are fascinating in the sense that a lot of them don't have actual explanations to why the supernatural horrors are happening. No one knows where the hanging balloons came from, or what Tomie is, or why people became obsessed with spirals. There's also a theme of obsession or being unable to escape your fate, which makes it even more horrifying because the protags generally don't survive the stories.
I also love how he takes mundane stuff and make them scary, like balloons, bad smells, honey, and mold. He also draws really good body horror.
You should read 'Left Hand of God, Right Hand of the Devil'
& I don't think I have a favourite Junji story, it's so hard to choose,
at a push I'd probably say Long Dream.
Long Dream is definitely my favorite.
same. Long Dream scared the shit out of me, because I'm terrified of death, but at the same time, it calmed me a bit because it made me wonder just how different death was from sleep anyway, since they are both just long periods on unconsciousness.
A town without streets is by far my favourite ito work, since it’s a look at how society would function with the lack of privacy. It’s less visual horror and more the feeling of never being alone no matter where you go.
Favorite Ito story: Long Dream
Good Horror Anime: Shiki, Higurashi no naku koro ni, Kiseijuu/Parasyte
Good Psychogical Horror Anime: Paranoia Agent, Perfect Blue, Monster, Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica and Shinsekai Yori (probably my favorite Anime of all time)
Good Horror Manga: Manhole, Ousama Game: Origin, Judge/Doubt/Secret series, Hideout, Kiseijuu/Parasyte, tajuu jinkaku tantei psycho
Just mentioned some of these on a post! Shiki and Parasyte! They are two of my all time favorite, Shiki being in my top 5 anime!
I love that people mention Madoka xD
you should read fuan no tane and it's sequel (also kouishou radio from the same author, it has more or less the same type of storytelling) if you loved junji itou's horror collection, albeit, they're a bit shorter.
Great list!
The Shiver compilation was one of the scariest things I've ever read. I still won't pick it back up.
"Give me some horror manga and anime..."
It's my time to shine. I've made it a goal to read all of the horror manga out there.
Now, I'm going to _try_ to avoid shounen series. Ones where the horror aspect really isn't that... Horrific? But definitely series that make you uneasy reading regardless of if the safety of the sun is out...
Firstly, any of Junji Ito's work. Period. Although, if I had to pick a favorite of his works, it'd probably be Black Paradox for sure. Uzumaki is a close second. Maybe Mimi's Ghost Stories as well.
Fuan no Tane / Fuan no Tane Plus -
Similar to Junji Ito's "there isn't really an answer," Fuan no Tane focuses on short horror stories. Easily one of my favorites out of this list. It's not as graphic as Ito's work, but it greats a fantastic atmosphere in only the few pages each chapter contains.
Kasane (by Daruma Matsuura) -
On a little bit of the lighter side of things, this series takes a fun concept and makes it dark around every corner. The concept of face swapping. It's not the best horror per se, but it's dark tone and constantly weight makes you really worry about what happens next.
Franken Fran -
A series with a LOT of gore and body horror in practically every other page. If not more. However, it's not _bloody_ gore necessarily. Franken Fran is a girl(?) who can perform any surgery. Surgeries you probably can't even think of. She always means well, but maybe the outcome isn't always what you want... Definitely the best gore series out there, especially with how nonchalant it presents the gore. It's not a murder mystery (well, except that one chapter) and in fact is probably more of a comedy.
Ibitsu (by Haruto Ryou) -
A classic. Really. Back in the day, this series was the one people talked about. Usually one of the first series people read. A simple story about a stalker........
Mononoke -
A must watch (and read)! Its a surreal sort of horror with a wonderfully eerie atmosphere. Really, you have to watch it to fully understand.
Aaaaand I'll stop there. I tried to get a decently different range? But I could go on for hours lol. Plus, I really avoided shounen, but there are a LOT of shounen/action heavy series that while not an intense, mysterious horror... Are still intense and unnerving in their own right. To just list a few...
Sprite, Kamisama no Iutoori (+ni for part 2), I Am A Hero, Tenkuu Shinpan, Sankarea, Mahou Shoujo Apocalypse, Apocalypse no Toride, Dolly Kill Kill, Alice in Borderland, Murcielago (big favorite
Im not very expert at horror manga, but one of the best horror manga i ever read is "homunculus" by hideo yamamoto. Very surreal and unique. Also a classic horror manga called "the drifting classroom" is very great too.
I'll definitely second 'Franken Fran'. It does that nice blend of horror and comedy very well, where the comedic tones make the horror even more disturbing.
In the case of 'Franken Fran', the main character is a sunny, cheerful character whose only desire is to help people. Unfortunately, due to her lack of social awareness, this 'help' often ends up being horrifically distressing. That she doesn't break this tone of light-hearted benevolence even as she performs horrific acts is the heart of the series.
the HIgurashi no naku koroni manga is a pretty good adaptation of the visual novel.
A trail of blood is one of those greats.
@@Conkel yeah a trail of blood is really good
Junji Ito's whole bibliography is like if Hieronymous Bosch made the Twilight Zone
I keep mixing you up with Super Eyepatch wolf. To be fair I love both of your content :D
So I found that while Junji Ito has some horrifying illustrations and some of the material is more overtly disturbing, there are things that we aren't meant to understand and those are the scariest. In the human mind, we tend to imagine perameters to an unknown stimuli to find a meaning in something we don't understand, so when we can't find meaning our brain freaks itself out with the "What ifs" of the situation.So the scariest thing about Junji ito's works isn't what we see, its what we see but don't understand because we don't have all the information.
Junji Ito doesn't look for things that are horrific and roll with it. He instead takes the most unlikely or ordinary things and warps them into horror.
What unnerved me most about Hanging Balloons was the similarities the singer’s death in the beginning had to an actual celebrity death in 1998.
As someone who thought they already experienced a ton of what can only described as "weird sh!t"... I think I said "WTF" far too much during this vid. :O
when you read all of Junji's works at a probably far too young age, nothing much can disturb you after that. It gave me some pretty thick horror body armor lol
What's terrifying about Amigara Fault is the fact that the transformation goes on for multiple months and you're completely immobile
You're not immobile, you slowly progress through it and as its shape changes, it distorts and twists your body.
Holy shit. Ryan talking about Junji Ito?! Has Christmas come early or something??
I’ve held nothing but fascination for ito’s work. It’s kind of ironic since I usually feel a lot more scared from terrible jump scares
On individualist tendencies in regards to Ito:
I think individualism is part of the horror, but I think it's fairly unique to Japan, in the manner that Ito uses it. Individualism is scary in Ito books, because you often can't trust people you should be able to. Often times it's someone incredibly close to a main character, who otherwise seems normal, but their apparent normalcy tends to be owed to status, observing social customs and knowing how to behave. Furthermore, those secret motivations, desires, and goals, are always tied to whatever the main conflict of the series is, and they're always detrimental too. They always make the conflict worse on the protagonists. Or rather, in the context of eastern storytelling, it makes the journey harder on the group.
I don't know if this is something Ito intentionally depicts, but it seems like it is in what I consider to be the "Ito" archetypal story. (So think Gyo or Uzumaki, not Tomie)
In Ito books, you can typically trust the main character's girlfriend, and that's about it.
I'm fond of "The Mysterious Tunnel," it was the first Junji Ito story I ever read, and it scared me rather badly. I've been addicted to his work ever since.
8:21 - best reaction ever.
Your videos are always so good! I haven't read any of this guy's stuff yet but I definitely am going to.
As far as good horror anime/manga... well, there's the comic online where that ghost asks you where her baby is, but it's fairly short. Best read with headphones as it includes sound and such. When I was a kid, I was repeatedly horrified by XXX-Holic, a manga about a young man who can see spirits and starts working for a wish so that he can pay for a wish that they won't follow him around anymore. While the comic it self can be quite humorous, there are several smaller stories throughout that are just nightmarish, with the implications often being that the witch, Yuki, knows full well what is going to happen to the people who either ignore her instructions or come her way, but she is not invested in them, and does nothing to stop their deaths. Additionally, several of the smaller stories in the manga very much change the expected perspective of the reader - for example, in one instance the young man has to go into a bush in order to retrieve the spirit of a young girl. He thinks that it's for the sake of the girl, but really the spirits asking for the help feel like humans have polluted their home and want her out for that reason - they don't care about her. Other times, it's very heartwarming. I really, really recommend it.
Horror Show Mickey is a good channel too. I really enjoyed the chapters about Tomie, I find her fascinating as a character.
8:30 this is a BIG thing I noticed in Ito's stories. It doesn't matter if you're a good person, a bad person, young, old, far away on an isolated mountain all alone or surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the big city. Something evil will find you, even if you're minding your own business, and kill you or those around you. No safe places exist.
When you whispered i actually thought there was someone in the room with me
the Human Chair is surprisingly the one that gets me. Not to say the others don't, I've had nightmares about Amigara Fault before. but there's something about the fact that the Human Chair is the most plausible of all that lingers in my mind. there are stories of people finding hiding places in their homes where a stranger lived under their nose, so who's to say a person hasn't lived inside furniture the same way?
It's hard to find actual "Horror Anime" since most of them are really just gore stuff. The closes one I can think of is Another.
There's Shiki too, I remember that one being pretty intense
The promised neverland
The scariest part of ito's work, is that he makes the horrific the norm. In regular horror movies, there is regular everyday life and then something crazy happens and even during "the crazy" there is this grip on the normal the victims hold on to and even try to fight for and if survived can go back to.
In itos work, when the crazy begins, it becomes the reality and there is no going back to the regular 9-5 job with a weekend and we will laugh about this later. This HORROR IS REALITY NOW and it will never go back. A really unsettling and terrifying feeling of reality shattering and changing for the worst.
"The Hanging Balloons" was such a good story.
Oh totally it's such a good read even better when your drinking got coco and curled up in a cozy blanket with a candy cane or marshmallows
I ment hot coco
I'm actually really happy you mentioned (if very briefly) Ito's humor because I think it's a really underrated part of his writing. The Junji Ito Cat Diary (of which you used as b-roll, thanks for that) is actually a great example, since the humor comes from the fact he draws and paces an otherwise standard slice-of-life as though it were one of his horror stories. It's hard not to grin like a loon at his character-insert brought to near madness at the realization one of the cats doesn't really like him all that much, or the sinister sneer A-ko has when bring home the cats for the first time. I really do believe his ability to have humor in the macabre (and vice-versa!) is one of the reasons he's one of the greats.
A few anime suggestions:
Boogie Pop Phantom
Requiem from the Darkness
Paranoia Agent
Gregory Horror Show
Psycho-Pass
The hanging balloons scared the crap out of me. I'm actually scared to open the curtains in the morning in case there a creepy ass balloon head waiting there-
Great video as always love the work you put into every video
Junji Ito is one of the few artists/writers that genuinely disturbs me - hell, he even makes me feel sick time to time - yet I always tend to continue reading his works despite that. Not only the king of body horror, I think he perfectly encapsulates existential and surreal horror.
Also, I think having no resolution or answers is one of the most important point of his works: not only adding to the helplessness, it also plays with our fear of the unknown because, well, we don't know anything. Each story is like a blight that comes and goes, we don't know what caused it, but each has definitely affected our and the character's psyche.
So, much thanks and love to you for making a video on his work; it's always nice to see what other interpret, and to just see people give the madman the appreciation he deserves.
Junji's mangas are like a VERY VERY fucked-up version of the Tales of the Unusual webtoon.
The Junji Ito story that gave me nightmares was An Army of One...
Personally a lot of the horror manga and anime does not seem particularly terrifying to me because it is more grotesque than anything else. But if I should recommend something other than Junji Ito as a good example of these stories, what I recommend is to read Fuan no tane or seeds of anxiety since it is one of the few readings that left me restless once I finished it.
Isn't Fuan no Tane is also Junji's work or am I mistaking him with other artists?
more of this pretty please, i’ve never read manga but this has motivated me to do so. keep up the good work
Ito is the KING of psychological horror
so excited to see you finally discussing ito's work!! i got into him just recently and have always thought that you could do a video on his work very well. love u always ryan xoxoxoxo