Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.

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. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. 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.

Frankenstein.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. Graphic novel adaptation of (work): Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Translation of: Ito Junji Kessakushi 10: Frankenstein.įrankenstein - Neck Specter - Bog of living spirits - Pen pal - Intruder - The strange tale of Oshikiri - The strange tale of Oshikiri: the walls - The hell of the doll funeral - Face firmly in place - Boss non-non - Hide-and-seek with Boss non-non. Originally published in Japan in 2013 by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo, through Tohan Corporation, Tokyo. Manga format reads from back to front, right to left. Story & art by Junji Ito translation, Jocelyn Allen English adaptation, Nick Mamatas other stories translation & adaptation, Jocelyn Allen touch-up art & lettering, James Dashiell cover & graphic design, Adam Grano.īased on Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, published in 1831. San Francisco, California : VIZ Media, ģ99 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations 22 cm. Full Bibliographic Record Publication information:

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