Junji Ito has been on my mind, ever since Jak wrote a news article on his manga-turned-anime series published on Cult Cryptic. I’m pretty disappointed that I’ve slept on Junji Ito for so long. He’s everything I could possibly want in life: very grotesque horror mixed with manga-style art? YES PLEASE. Although Goodreads has this as just Frankenstein by Junji Ito, this is actually volume 16 of his Horror Comic Collection. It's also the first tale I've ever seen where Ito has adapted a European/Western horror tale instead of the usual eastern folklore. It's a relatively faithful adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel instead of the classic Universal monster film. It is however a little on the short side when compared to Shelley's novel, and many of the rich details of her book are left out in this adaptation. That being said, all of the key players are in tact, the setting is accurate both in time and place, and Frankenstein's monster is as complex and tortured as his novel counterpart. The brilliance of Ito’s version reaches its pitch in Frankenstein’s creation of the monster. In Ito’s hands, there is no marvelous invention, no awe-inspiring contraption to ogle. Scientific-looking trinkets are littered about the room like scattered beer cans, the room of his birth more a 19th century man-cave than a laboratory. What we are drawn to is the mass of body parts strung together, their organs oozing onto a mat laid out so that maybe the floors will stay clean. It’s too big, gnarly, already a mistake, too much body for the room to bear. And then he stands up! In the room that can’t sustain him! There are plenty of depictions of Frankenstein’s monster that capture the poetry of this moment - Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version immediately comes to mind - but this is the rare vision which makes the act of creation as violent and grotesque as an act of killing. Here the delirious dirge of horror pollutes the prettiness of the plain. well, i don't know whether i am disappointed or not about the fact that his version is pretty much the same as the book.

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The collection closes out with some throwaway short-short stories. The Hell of the Doll Funeral, about a couple whose daughter transforms into a doll, is visually striking, but not much else. Face Firmly in Place is a Pit and the Pendulum-esque story of a woman trapped in a surgical device by her ears - but how will she escape? For such a nightmarish story, it was an unusual choice to close out with a jokey ending that wasn’t that great. And the Boss Non-Non shorts about Ito’s dog were instantly forgettable.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. The main theme throughout is that of alternate dimensions and inter-dimensional travel. It’s really fun to see how these stories link and see how it all unfolds for Oshikiri and his group of classmates.

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So Frankenstein is the lead tale here. Sure, the monster is grotesque as one would expect from Junji Ito but I was way more interested in the other stories featuring Oshikiri, a teenage boy who lives by himself in a haunted mansion. There is some body horror but it's comparatively small for Ito's usual output. There's a lot more creeping dread, though. Bodies buried in the courtyard, mysterious footsteps, doppelgangers, insanity, etc.I also think it might be a great book for any readers who are new to reading manga, as most will already be familiar with the story and can get used to the reading style. There have been multiple Frankenstein retellings — from the comedic film Young Frankenstein to Disney’s Frankenweenie; at this point, I feel like everyone has indulged in some sort of Frankenstein tale. Please, horror friends, don’t hate me for this next comment, but I’ve never been a huge fan of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I have major respect for the story, but reading it was a total drag. So, upon seeing Junji Ito’s rendition of the classic, I had a pretty good inkling that he would not let me down. PDF / EPUB File Name: Frankenstein__Junji_Ito_Story_Collection_-_Junji_Ito.pdf, Frankenstein__Junji_Ito_Story_Collection_-_Junji_Ito.epub

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Okay, I'm a huuuge fan of Junji Ito, but I'm going to make this review short and sweet because I'm on a lunch break. By experimenting with the iconic imagery Shelley conjured up with her words, Ito turns every encounter with the Creature into an exercise in tension. While the Creature is imposing and the heavy inks do invite a kind of sadistic exploration of the map of scars and broken limb connections that is its skin, I still desperately eager to see the Creature speak. One example of this is the sequence when the Creature recounts the moment he decided he hated humanity. Without diving into spoilers for those who haven’t read the original, the Creature’s narration makes you feel just as sorry for him in the manga as you do in the original, especially when he decides to converse with a blind man whom the Creature hopes will accept him as an equal. His dialogue is as refined and precise as it is in Shelley’s version and it reveals just how faithful to the original Ito wanted to be. In ”Intruders” Oshikiri hears footsteps in his house and invites some classmates in, where they discover the graves of their own dead selves, killed in another dimension. This second half is some of my favorite Ito writing I've read in a minute, so I give it five stars.Don’t quote me on this — but, I’m under the impression that Frankenstein by Junji Ito will be released in a story collection. However, I only received the galley for the Frankenstein portion, so that’s all I will be reviewing. The main bulk of the other stories are about a character called Oshikiri. These are; Bog Of Living Spirits, Pen Pal, Intruder, The Strange Tale of Oshikiri, and The Strange Tale of Oshikiri: The Walls. Me encanta cómo mantiene su esencia pero adapta también el dibujo, haciéndolo más sobrio, con escenarios menos abstractos y oníricos. La manera de abordar la historia, con mimo y respeto, y los cambios que hace para plasmarla en menos de 200 páginas, consiguiendo que cierres el tomo y digas: SÍ, yo te compro lo que haga falta. A ti sí, maestro Ito. A ti sí. This year's October read. I'm not familiar with Junji Ito's work other than being familiar with his status and reputation as a horror manga artist and a passing familiarity with his visual style.