Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

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El tomo lo leí en inglés, por lo que no se si todas las traducciones son así, las dos ultimas las puse en inglés no más.

This is a Junji Ito manga that so vividly pays homage to the Lovecraft school of horror: this impossible, unknowable thing that renders innocent people insane and, even, dead. There is also an author’s notes at the end of each story, explaining abit about the creative process and thought behind each of them. Also, there is some concept art sketches. I liked this further insight into how these horrifying tales came to be.While other stories (see below) showcase even more bonkers imaginative flexing than this one, Hanging Balloons is arguably Ito’s most unsettling and outright horrifying manga short story. The central conceit behind this weird and wonderful Junji Ito manga is that our bedridden man lives for several years in a dream state every time he sleeps. He goes to bed and dreams of entire lives. No Longer Human has had a staggering influence on not only the Japanese canon, but also the works of writers like Qiu Miaojin and many other Korean and Taiwanese authors. The story centers around two hospital patients suffering from seemingly psychological maladies. The first, Mami, is a young woman whose unidentified illness fills her every waking moment with the dread of death. The other patient, Mukoda, claims his dreams elongate each night, as he feels days and months slipping by from just a normal night’s rest.

Shiver/The chill: un relato con un objeto maldito, body horror extremo y un atmosfera tetrica y asfixiante. 3.5/5 Greased: nunca mas vere al aceite de manera normal. Que tipo idiota es Goro, cree que la solucion radica en tratar mal a los demas par sentirse mejor. Que relato tan raro y macabro. 2/5 It’s a chilling story that really shows off Ito’s talent for drawing bodies in a transformed state. These rituals and behaviours begin to make a kind of sense as secrets surrounding the principal and his wife come to light.Ito shows a little self-restraint here when it comes to his monstrous depictions of horror, but his unique style still shines through. These diary-style comics explore his relationship with his cats, with all kinds of silly misadventures. Many of the story techniques Ito uses for his horror comics are flipped on their head and played as humour. The story starts at an exhibition for the titular painter, Mitsuo Mori, who has had newfound success in his Nana series of paintings. The praise is unanimous, that is until he meets the mysterious Tomie. She insists that if you look closely you can see, “she’s clearly a dimwit.” The criticism sits with Mori, even as he’s painting the next piece in the Nana series.

The Long Dream: el miedo a la muerte entrelazado a sueños largos y tetricos. La perdida del espacio y tiempo. Body horror extremo. 3/5Fashion Model” is a story about a screenwriter who is deeply disturbed by a woman who doesn’t reach his bare minimum beauty standard. The Long Dream feels a bit too familiar, the dreams are played more for laughs than really showing the horror aspect of them. Being told a character was looking for a restroom for eight years is always going to be funny to me, you either need to show what it's like (because the image I have is definitely funny) or find something else. Of course, the humour may be what he intended, and not every story has to be straight horror, but I still think it was a great premise that could've lead to a better story. Imagine every time you dream your dreams keep getting longer and a stage is reached when your dream become eternal ? BYEE , I am going what is this thinking? My personal fav till now! When Ito’s manga adaptation of No Longer Human was published, it actually received a grander fanfare from fans than did his adaptation of Frankenstein.

Osamu Dazai’s name is often mentioned in the same breath as those of other 20th Century Japanese writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Kenzaburo Oe, and Junichiro Tanizaki. Shiver” is the second story in Junji Ito’s Shiver and it’s a story that will linger with you. Not only because of the terrifying imagery it implores, but because this story will literally make you shiver. It puts you in the headspace of the lead character and introduces a concept that is impossible, yet is easy to fathom. The reason for this is revealed in the story’s twisted, climactic ending and it is a doozy that sends shivers down your spine. A cursed record that dooms its listeners. A mysterious jade carving that bestows a horrific disease on those who possess it. A monstrous fashion model. Ghostly blimps of the dead. A crazed puppeteer who turns his family into marionettes. A muse that drives painters mad. A man whose dreams distort time and, eventually, his body. A man determined to carry on his family’s lineage, no matter what. And a nightmarishly greasy house and the poor family the grease envelopes. With the exception of “Cursed Frame,” which comes at the end of the collection, the rest of the stories are uniformly strong: “Marionette Mansion” is a Goosebumps story turned up to 11, “Painter” is one of Ito’s finest Tomie stories, “The Long Dream” reads like a sleep-science take on Stephen King’s “The Jaunt” and “Honored Ancestors” turns familial pressure to procreate into monstrous, literal form. “Greased,” the penultimate story, will be divisive: some will love the all-consuming grime on display while others (this reader included) will have a tough time with the pus-covered grotesquery.A baron of body horror, illustrator and author Junji Ito is to manga what director David Cronenberg is to film. His long-form stories such as Tomie, Uzumaki and Gyo are modern classics of the genre that have captivated comic book horror fans the world round. That having been said, Ito’s introduction to me and many others was by way of his short stories. Horrific tales such as “The Enigma of Amigara Fault,” the Fragments of Horror anthology and the stories collected within Shiver, namely “Honored Ancestors.” Of all the stories in Shiver, “Greased” is by far the most memorable for me. This is mostly because of how based in sensory reality the core of its horror is. Fun and creative as Ito’s more supernatural works can be, it’s hard to top the sheer unpleasantness of tactile disgust. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.