THE BEST OF JUNJI ITO: SHORT STORY COLLECTION

AUTHOR: JUNJI ITO
RETAIL PRICE: SGD$34.90
PRODUCT DIMENSIONS: 127mm (W) x 190.5mm (H)
ISBN: 978-981-14-1714-6

DRAMA | HORROR | MYSTERY | SUPERNATURAL

Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二 Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror mangaka. Some of his most notable works include Tomie, a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals; and Gyo, a two-volume story where fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called “the death stench.”

His other works are Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection, a collection of different short stories including a series of stories named Souichi’s Journal of Delights, and Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, a self-parody about him and his wife living in a house with two cats. In 2019, Ito received an Eisner Award for his manga adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

This volume includes ten of Junji Ito’s short stories, as selected exclusively from the Shōgakukan publisher catalog and presented and accompanied with a gallery of six color illustrations. Presented in it’s original form for the first time in English, this lavish deluxe sized anthology comes with full color sections.

Stories:

1: ”Okuman botchi (Army of One)”
2: ”Ningen isu”
3: ”Mōten no bīnasu”
4: ”Name onna (The Licking Woman)”
5: ‘Umezu sensei to watashi (Umezz Kazuo and Me)”
6: ”Konoyo no hoka no koi”
7: ”Miira reta Kirita kyōju”
8: ”Amigaradansō no kai (The Enigma of the Amigara Fault)”
9: ”Daikokubashira hiwa (The Sad Tale of the Principal Post)”
10: ”Wasuregatami (Memento)” (New one-shot)