A girl stops by a furniture store to request a comfortable, sturdy chair be made for her to work in. This is a classic Ito tale (based on the story by Edogawa Ranpo) that I hear about often and finally got a chance to read. What a parable about the perils of gathering in groups! (And the gruesome lengths to which a murderous vigilante group will go to enforce social distancing 😅) Except that bodies keep turning up in his town-“group corpses” who’ve been grotesquely stitched together using fishing line. ◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️Ģ0-year-old Michio has been a recluse for the last 7 years when he’s approached by his former classmates to attend a class reunion and coming-of-age ceremony.

Thank you NetGalley and VIZ Media for this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. Similarly, I don’t think I’ll be forgetting some of the tales in Venus in the Blind Spot anytime soon. This collection reminded me quite viscerally of when I was kid and I’d read anthologies of horror folklore at my local library (featuring stories like “The Green Ribbon,” about a girl also named Jenny whose fate freaked me out for years). So while I haven’t exactly read enough of this horror master’s work to know what constitutes the “best” of his canon, I will say that the stories collected in Venus in the Blind Spot were mostly enjoyable-and rife with Ito’s trademark body horror ingenuity. Over the weekend I finally got to reading Junji Ito’s manga, devouring all three volumes of Uzumaki in as many days. Overall, if you are looking for horror short stories, definitely look at this! Keepsake was disturbing, but kept me intrigued.Īnd, the famous 'Human Chair' and 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault' make a reappearance in this collection.

The Licking Woman culminated in an ending where I wanted to learn more. Billions Alone contained extremely disturbing and creepy images. The title story was an interesting one, regarding beauty and the desire of men to control it. The horror aspect of his work continues to work off the grotesque and the psychological, making these stories into chilling reads.Īs always, the artwork is very well done, and their play off the 'page turn/jump scare' always works well. This collection contains a mix of Junji Ito's most famous works as well as some new stories. I am a bit biased and have loved all the material that Junji Ito has released, and have been following their career for a while now.Īs such, when I saw there was a new collection, I was eager to read. Thank you to Viz Media and NetGalley, for the digital ARC!

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