Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu 01

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Unidentified Creature" centers on a visit from A-ko's parents and Goro, the timid cat they bring along. Reviewers enjoyed the narrative as a lighthearted window into pet caretaking, where the humor derived from the caretaker's response to the cats, rather than the cats' behavior.

First there’s Mu a kitten who seems harmless enough, perhaps even cute, but then Mu is joined by A-ko’s full-grown cat Yon. It's very funny and it's actually authentic, because you will also get a bonus gallery of Ito's real life cats, who look exactly like Yon and Muu. He does it to look like a horror comic, as if this is how he can't help but see the world, but in fact he falls in love with kitties, aw. 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.But when both cats arrive, he swiftly descends into a breakdown because the cats don't love him as much as he discovers he loves them. This cat diary is drawn in his typical horror style and has similar pacing to a horror manga but it laugh out loud hilarious. King Yon" chronicles Yon's further unsuccessful attempt to escape, his unusual strength, and his position as dominant cat within the household. The English-language edition also included the pieces contributed by Ito and his wife for Teach Me, Michael! Little did he know his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow-Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu, an adorable Norwegian forest cat.

Junji Ito is a horror manga artist known best for exceptionally creative and terrifying works such as Uzumaki and Tomie. I found myself smiling or laughing more than I was wincing and cringing at the horror or scare tactics.stars and a recommendation to those limited few who find the idea of a horror artist doing a cute comedy ridiculously amusing. This story is about cat loving, it's about becoming a cat person - a true one, believe me, and about how these little furry assholes change everything when they arrive in our lives. Critical discussions have centered around Ito's use of realism and exaggerated horror to elicit moments of comedy, the manga's relationship to previous works by Ito, and how the artwork depicts the relationship between cats and their caregivers. He is not the sort of manga creator I can recommend to most of my friends, as I genuinely think his work often goes a step beyond uncomfortable (though if you do like horror, check him out.

It features various anecdotes about living with cats, which center on J-kun, a horror manga artist (Ito's stand-in); his fiancée, A-ko (his wife Ayako Ishiguro's stand-in); her family cat, Yon ("Four"); and a Norwegian Forest cat, Mu ("Six"). I don't like it as much as the truly masterful horror stuff he does, but it's kinda cute, pretty funny.

Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate. It's amazing how Junji Ito can take a rather mundane book about his new family getting two cats and turn it into horror. 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? Thus ensues a long journey of a man trying desperately to make two moody cats adore him while also upholding the facade of not caring if they do or don't. This was a hilarious combination of Ito's normal horror art style mixed with the comedy of having two cats with VERY different personalities.