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Layers of Fear (恐怖の重層) // Junji Ito

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Layers of Fear | Kyoufu no Juusou

Junji Ito

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m00707236 · 1 year

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Artist Research: Junji Ito

One of the most prolific cosmic horror and body horror artists is the award-winning mangaka Junji Ito. His work is both a visual feat with intricately crafted ink details, and at the same time uncanny and deeply disturbing. Like Cronenberg and Straub, Ito was inspired to create horror from encounters with it in his childhood, stating that the first manga he ever read was ‘Mummy Teacher’ a horror manga that inspired him to create his own horror works. Another encounter with horror in his early childhood was how he recounted having to walk through a dark underground hallway to reach the toilet in his home, both these examples are reminiscent of the analog horror idea of playing with repressed childhood memories to enhance horror, as it can be seen in Ito’s works. He used the imagery of dark underground hallways in ‘Twin Series’ in which he modelled the environment in the story after his own childhood home. He layers his pen strokes to build up darkness saying ‘in horror, how scary the dark is, is a common theme and having things dark so its hard to see makes it seem like something could be lurking in that darkness. It stirs up fears that make you worry. “what could that be?” This, once more, links back to Kressbach’s investigatory mode of spectatorship, which manifested in analog horror as low fidelity footage and in Ito’s work as layered darkness of his brushwork.

(Kyoufu no Juusou/Layers of Fear, (2017), Junji Ito)

Most of his works have doomed characters, locked into an unescapable fate or transformation and he comments that ‘unless you’re in a hopeless situation, you won’t feel afraid.’ Like body horror it is the complete absence of hope that creates the horror, the monster is within you so there is no escaping it as you slowly lose your autonomy and your body becomes foreign to you. However, Ito was not purposefully following body horror themes, he comments ‘I wasn’t aiming for body horror but I believe the human mind is the scariest part of oneself. When the body manifests those fears, the body becomes the scariest part, so I drew a lot of transformations.’ These transformations can be partial such as in ‘Uzumaki’ the protagonist's hair becomes cursed by spirals, or wholly consuming such as another transformation in Uzumaki in which a character cursed by the spiral has contorted his body beyond the realm of possibility into a spiral shape. Ito described the creation of ideas for his work as the foreign meeting the familiar, for example, ‘attaching foreign objects to the human body’ seen in his work on ‘slug girl’. Ito said how he observed how his tongue moved in the mirror and likened it to that of a slug, wondering what horrific imagery he could create.

(Uzumaki/Spiral, (1998), Junji Ito

Up till this point, my practical work was lacking in horror. I was unsure of how to depict transhumanist horrifying transformations of the body with the foreign but Ito’s approach of transformations that still relate back to reality has guided me. Despite the outlandish nature of his transformations Ito closely studies anatomical charts and books on human anatomy to retain a semblance of reality within fiction, the transformation I portray must then still be recognisable as human, because the true horror is the horror of ones own body.

A Talk with Junji Ito | Creator Interview | VIZ, (2020), Vizmedia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7qCN8qN31A

Junji Ito, (2017), Urasawa Naoki no Manben, S4.E2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJaZI597zI

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Layers of Fear | Kyoufu no Juusou by Junji Ito

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recentanimenews · 7 years

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Celebrate Horror Master Junji Ito's 30th Anniversary in His "Haunted House"

If you're squeamish about body horror, you may want to look away. But if you're as entranced by the surreal nightmare fuel of Junji Ito as the rest of his fans, keep reading -- because he's celebrating his 30th anniversary as a manga creator in style.

The special website, released by Asahi Shimbun Publications, features a profile of Ito, as well as a listing of his various works. Fans will also be able to read two short manga in their entirety: the classic Slug Girl (originally published in 1997) and the new one-shot Kyoufu no Juusou, about a strange curse visited on a family after an archaeological dig.

Ito's Hanging Balloons will also be available to view in chapters via the Osoroshi Ya website. The special anniversary website will be online until March 17, so read while you can!

Junji Ito is best known to American fans for his works such as Gyo, Uzumaki, Tomie, and the heavily circulated short The Enigma of Amigara Fault. An English-language release of his Dissolving Classroom anthology was published earlier this year.

Source: Comic Natalie

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