Ito dips into every day problems like wanting to be loved or desired, family conflict, and even being stuck a job that literally takes over your life and turns them up to eleven with imagery that will scar your psyche.Ī big chunk of this story collection is the Junji Ito horror serial, “Lovesickness”, which is about a foggy town obsessed with fortune telling at crossroads. And that continues to be the case in his new collection Lovesickness, which features the titular story as well as two “Strange Hizikuri Siblings stories and three unrelated horror yarns.
Memories manages to keep Ito's typical tone without having much of his typical darkness - it's just great.Junji Ito is probably my favorite manga creator, and he is a master of finding terror in the everyday escalating normal situations into something resembling cosmic horror. Ito's struggles with whether and how to buy the poop are both funny and understandable, and the way his art captures the Autumn atmosphere in just a few panels is a level of mastery just slightly out of place in this poop story. Though Memories is comparatively less absurd than the likes of Lovesickness, it still feels pretty ridiculous - but it's honestly the most fun part of the whole book. RELATED: Barrage: Horikoshi’s Failed Space Saga, Before My Hero Academia The story follows a young Ito as he makes an amazing discovery at a Fall festival: a booth selling hyper-realistic poop. The biggest surprise of Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection, though, is - seriously - Memories of Real Poop. It feels strange to say that, in a collection of stories warning about the dangers of celebrity and obsession and musing on the toxic infectiousness of pain and unexpressed feelings that the second-best story is one about.poop. Not helping matters is the fact that the woman was the beloved aunt of his crush, Midori. Ryusuke believes that his giving her a bad fortune is what lead her to it, and so now he walks the crossroads, giving out good predictions as part of an obsession of his own. These girls become obsessed not only with fulfilling the boy's predictions - to a self-destructive degree.Ĭaught in the middle of all this is Ryusuke Fukada, a young boy wracked with guilt over a woman's suicide that happened when he was six. Things quickly escalate when a beautiful, black-clad boy begins appearing to girls at intersections and maliciously giving them bad fortunes. One of Junji Ito's lesser-known stories (overseas, at least), it has all the hallmarks of some of his greatest hits, like Uzumaki and Remina. The series takes place in a town where the latest fad is "crossroads fortune-telling," where you stand at an intersection and ask the first passerby to tell your fortune.
Lovesickness, the collection's main story, is the main reason to pick up this book.
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