Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection

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I wish I'd written down ratings for each piece of the collection individually as I was reading through it, but this was one of those times where I was more in the mood to just zone out with the manga rather than take notes, and it wasn't good enough to want to re-read it for more thorough reviewing purposes (sorry! The Face Burglar", "The Devil's Logic", and "The Long Hair in the Attic" were released in 2000 as part of the "Itō Junji Kyōfu Collection", a series of short films made for television that aired on Japanese TV station ANB. By this, I mean that I wasn’t especially blown away by any one story, but the majority of them were nevertheless great reads that left me very satisfied, with only a few outlying moments.

Village of the Siren” gets into some Western mythology, and a Japanese man claims to be the reincarnation of a magician from Europe. His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his books Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Lovesickness, No Longer Human, Remina, Shiver, Smashed, and Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media. The girls toy aisles aren't our regular ball park but we occasionally like to try something different to our norm. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office.Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. For fun I've rated my top 3 favorite stories and one for the most disturbing (in my opinion) Why not? That’s not to say this is a bad collection, but Ito has such wonderfully scary other pieces that many in this volume fell flat for me. Each story had its own creepy and sometimes silly parts which makes it a great short stories collection.

The others are hardly vintage Ito, and tend to display the hallmarks of his weakest work: abrupt/inconclusive endings, plots that seem to be missing key points, infodumps in dialogue. Ito's take on fear is eccentric and the proof is in each of these tales, all of them taking their own form of mind bending impossibilities (or so we think).

This fine collection of 12 short stories are sure to fill your well with fear and thought provoking horrors. there are some quite creative ideas and as expected with Ito, things lean heavily into weird and body-horror, with some nicely done panels (page 80 of Where The Sandman Lives for example). The story is not concerned with why she can do this, however, nor where she even came from (it is revealed faculty doesn’t even really know who she truly is). Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. However, when I heard that this collection would feature some of his earliest stories, I found myself getting excited to check out a new book of his once again.

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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. The title story “Deserter” and “The Long Hair in the Attic” had unexplainable manifestations of evil that made me want just a few more answers.