Basically, you can’t cross the street without a girl covering her face and asking you if she’ll find love or if the cute boy at school likes her. Ito dips into every day problems like wanting to be loved or desired, family conflict, and even being stuck a job that literally takes over your life and turns them up to eleven with imagery that will scar your psyche.Ī big chunk of this story collection is the Junji Ito horror serial, “Lovesickness”, which is about a foggy town obsessed with fortune telling at crossroads. And that continues to be the case in his new collection Lovesickness, which features the titular story as well as two “Strange Hizikuri Siblings stories and three unrelated horror yarns.

THWOJI vol.Junji Ito is probably my favorite manga creator, and he is a master of finding terror in the everyday escalating normal situations into something resembling cosmic horror. The Beautiful Youth of the Intersectionsīonus chapters: Ribs Woman and Phantom Mansion Blood Sickness of thte White Sands Village THWOJI vol.14: THE STORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS TUNNEL ( トンネルの奇譚)Ġ5. TBHS: Seance (Assembly of the Fallen Ghost) THWOJI vol.11: THE TOWN WITHOUT STREETS ( 道のない街) The Sleeping Room (Den of the Sleep Demon) THWOJI vol.10: HOUSE OF THE MARIONETTES ( あやつりの屋敷)Ġ5. THWOJI vol.8: BLOOD-BUBBLE BUSHES ( 血玉樹) THWOJI vol.6: SOUICHI’S DIARY OF CURSES ( 双一の呪い日記)Ġ2. THWOJI vol.5: SOUICHI’S DIARY OF DELIGHTS ( 双一の楽しい日記 Souichi no Tanoshi i Nikki) THWOJI vol.3: FLESH COLORED HORROR ( 肉色の怪 Nikuiro no Kai) Though not part of THWOJI collection, Tomie’s story continues here. The rest are stand-alone short stories collected from various magazine publications. Note: The Horror World of Junji Ito Collection (aka THWOJI or Kyoufu Collection) is a 16 volume series. MA NO KAKERA (FRAGMENTS OF HORROR) ( 魔まの断片かけら Ma no Kakera) DISSOLVING SERIES ( 溶解教室 Yōkai Kyoushitsu)īonus chapters: Children of the Earth and Meet Again ITO JUNJI’S CAT DIARY ( 猫日記よん&むー Neko Nikki Yon to Mū)ġ0. BLACK PARADOX ( ブラックパラドクス Burakku Paradokusu)īonus chapters: The Licking Woman and Mystery Pavilionīonus chapters: The Sad Tale of the Principal Post and Enigma of Amigara Fault

Volumes and series that have been translated/scanlated in their entirety Mountain of Gods: Precipice of the Unknown These stories are one-shots published in various magazines

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