Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection

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One of the tourists is Evan, taking an enforced holiday from his family and work in Belfast after breaking down after the death of his daughter in infancy. I still enjoyed it just fine, but his line work was a lot more rough around the edges and his penchant for smaller details was absent in some cases.

Oshima hates Furukawa because they had deserted the military together; Furukawa escaped, while Oshima was caught and punished. Each story had its own creepy and sometimes silly parts which makes it a great short stories collection. I prefer the supernatural stuff myself, but some of the more grounded elements, such as in “Bullied”, really effectively got under my skin. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.People who are already his fans ought to check it out, and horror fans who haven’t read Ito ought to take a look at his work.

His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his books Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Lovesickness, No Longer Human, Remina, Shiver, Smashed, and Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Bio House is about vampires out for blood, Village of the Siren is about demons wanting human sacrifice because that’s what demons want, Deserter is about a haunted family, and The Devil’s Logic is about a cursed videotape that kills - I know, how original, eh? If you’re new to Junji Ito, I wouldn’t advise checking this one out till you’ve read some more of his work, particularly Uzumaki or Remina. Others, such as “Face Thief” and “The Devil’s Logic” have good concepts behind them but the payoff is either a rushed conclusion or a story that feels like its potential wasn’t fully reached. If I had to guess, this would be from the days he couldn’t afford to do that, or wasn’t yet at that stage, and that explains the roughness we see.

She hasn't left the village since a traumatic stay in London as a young woman at the end of the 1980s. This is where you will find any My Little Pony, Monster High, Barbie or Polly Pocket items that we may have in from time to time. Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. I find that Ito often has a problem with over-explaining some of his stories, but notable in these early works is how he just lets their premises stand for themselves. This is a moving and funny debut novel set in a quirky coastal community you will be desperate to visit after reading.