no longer human is a pure masterpiece, I'd say if anything it is the scariest of the Ito works because it shows the horrors of anxiety and social isolation. Showing that the true horror is within our own lives.
@@simcard867 Honestly I don't think the story's very sympathetic to Yozo at all - keep in mind that most of the 'sympathetic' moments come from Oba himself, who in this story is an unreliable narrator. Sure, Yozo comes off as a sympathetic character but that's only if you take his word over the horrible things we see him do in the story. In fact, I think one strong point of Ito's adaptation is that he makes Yozo *less* sympathetic by adding in more deaths for which he is responsible for, as well as allowing the reader to see his actions and how they conflict with his own narration. It really helps to bring Oba's complexity to the forefront of the story
here’s a resume that he listed : (already released) 1. Uzumaki 2. Tomie 3. Gyo 4. Fragments of horror 5. Dissolving Classroom 6. Yon & Mu 7. Shiver 8. Franskenstein 9. Smashed 10. Lovesickness 11. No Longer Human 12. Venus in the blind spot 13. Remina 14. Sensor
One thing I noticed about Ito's page layout is it's well placed. I don't know if it's Ito himself but it seems he sets up a feeling of suspense and you turn the page and the shocking image is one the opposite page. It's like you hesitate to turn the page to see it.
i've heard that referred to as the "page turn effect" before, and its actually why the movie adaptations of itos work hasn't done well, it can't produce the same feeling you get from the suspense of turning the page.
UPDATE: LOVESICKNESS As mentioned in the video this new hardcover includes the five chapters of the Lovesickness (The Lovesick Dead) story as well as five additional stories. Those stories, and the Japanese volumes they come from are as follows; - The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: Narumi's Boyfriend - Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection Vol. 13: The Circus is Here - The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance - Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection Vol. 13: The Circus is Here - The Mansion of Phantom Pain - Museum of Terror Vol. 10: The Lovesick Dead - The Rib Woman - Museum of Terror Vol. 10: The Lovesick Dead - Memories of Real Poop - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 16: Frankenstein (this volume is now completely available in English) -- UPDATE: DESERTER This upcoming hardcover should be a direct English translation of the Masterpiece Collection: House of the Deserter, which itself collects everything from the long out of print English volume Long Hair in the Attic. The collected stories, and the Japanese volumes they come from should be as follows; - Bio-House - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 7: Slug Girl - The Face Burglar - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 4: The Face Burglar - Den of the Sleep Demon - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 10: House of the Marionettes - The Devil's Logic - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes - The Long Hair in the Attic - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 3: Flesh Colored Horror - Love as Scripted - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully - Sword of the Reanimator - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes - Heart of a Father - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully - Unbearable Maze - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes - The Village of Sirens - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 11: The Town Without Streets - The Bully - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully - House of the Deserter - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully Update: Kodansha is re-releasing Cat Diary in a hardcover volume with extra supplemental content. Update: Kodansha is re-releasing Dissolving Classroom in a hardcover volume as well.
you can already preorder junji itos next books: Lovesickness, Sensor, Deserter. all releasing until the end of 2021. So i think we got 4 Junji ito books this year! (im counting Remina too because in my region it arrived in January instead of the american release, which was before in December)
i've only read no longer human by him. jesus christ most incredible piece of art i have ever consumed, loved everything about it and left me depressed.
I read Uzumaki back in middle school at the public library. Saw it on the shelf and was super curious. Ever since then it's been in my mind. I could forget about the book completely but then out of nowhere a few years later my brain is like "remember that horror book about spirals?" And I'm like "Uzumaki! I should read that again!"
I also recommend 'no longer human' it's about Osamu Dazai (Author of the original novel) experiencing some very hard moments in his life. He shares his experiences dealing with self-isolation, anxiety, depression and more. it's absolutely NOT for children as it contains some very graphic moments. The adaptation by Ito will leave you terrified after you read it. it's a very good horror manga and definitely worth checking out.
these are all toptier manga, how about: Pluto, Monster, 20th century boys, attack on titan(it has some rough art at the beginning but an amazing story), death note, and ofcourse jojo. (the first part of jojo is kinda lame, you really have to torture yourself through it. The second part of jojo is descent but everything after part 2 is simply amazing and absolutely worth it. You could also just start reading the 7th part called "steel ball run", because it is set in an alternate universe, so you could consider it a reboot, jojo part 7 is absolutely god tier manga just like berserk.)
check out Innocent and its sequel, Innocent Rouge. it's a dark, gorey story set in 18th century France and the art is absolutely immaculate. also pretty short at 99 and 88 chapters respectively
They can't stop printing his stuff in English until it's all out! I think this should be enshined in law somehow. Then somehow we need to invest all our technological progress in keeping Junji as healthy as possible for as long as possible so he can write tons more stuff, lol. I also desperately want to have a full Souichi book.
Uzumaki takes the cake when it comes to overall story-telling, and imagery. He absolutely out-did himself on that one, and it will forever be my favorite Junji Ito/horror manga also mainly since it was my introduction to being a manga reader in general. Always loved anime, but took me until only about a year ago to start reading manga.
Same here. I bought Uzumaki after i finished my last exam of the fourth semester while waiting on my train home. Began to read it during the ride and became hooked. Soon after that i bought Gyo and Shiver. Then i got myself Berserk, Blame!, Monster, Dragonball, Lone Wolf and Cub and Fist of the North Star. I love manga much more than anime now.
My manga collection consists basically of Monster by Naoki Urasawa, all Junji Ito work available in english and the adaptation of The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo lol
Wow, there's a lot that haven't been published yet - nice! Fantastic video once again, very informative and enjoyable. I have only bought Uzumaki, Tomie and Shiver thus far but I'm planning on picking all of them up over some years.
I think this is the only complete and comprehensive guide to Junji Ito's works I've ever watched. I'm new to Junji Ito, bought Uzumaki a few months ago, blew me away, and now planning to collect all of those beautiful collections. This video helped a lot. Nice work!
I love Junji Ito, I have every one of the Viz editions of his works and one art book. I knew about Lovesickness but I had no idea that there were two more scheduled after and I am so excited, thank you for pointing these out! I hope that Viz keeps up with the Ito collections and is able to release most if not all in English, I would buy every single one to complete my collection.
As an Ito fan who's read most of his work (including the untranslated short stories), I'll give some advice. If you're new to Ito, without exception, Uzumaki should be your way-in. It's by far, the most well-known of his stories, and it's pretty good. If you're a bit more experienced with Ito, however, going so far as to read Gyo, and the entire Junji Ito collection fan translated; I highly recommend you check out "Black Paradox," which is one of Ito's medium-length stories, which lasts for a few chapters. EDIT: In the Deserter Volume, which will be released this Winter, I believe we will be getting most of the stories from the "Junji Ito Collection: The Bully," which coincidentally features "The Deserter," as well as some of Ito's earliest works. My guess as to the stories in this volume: (For anyone familiar with the Mueseum of Terror Vol 3 Release of Ito, which is currently $1,000s of dollars anywhere online, it will be featuring most the stories in that collection. This is my guess: -The Deserter (Confirmed) -The Bully (High-likelihood) -Heart of a Father (High-likelihood; also my favorite Ito story of all time) -The Will (Based on the line "A pair of girls look alike, but they aren't twins" ; good guess) -Sword of the Reanimator (Good guess) So that's potentially 5/12 of the stories in this Volume Now, let me talk about key differences and stories that belong to The Bully anthology, that won't be included: -Love as Scripted (Already in SHIVER's release) And that's pretty much it Despite having read practically all of his anthologies, this is what is giving me trouble: "A boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world." If anyone has some idea to which story this is referring to, comment it.
This is my first video from you and guess what? I'm now binging on all the rest 🥰 so glad I stumbled upon this vid. I'm an Ito fan myself and this is really helpful
I’ve been looking for a guide like this!! The Wikipedia does a terrible job of delivering this information, thank you! I first learned about Junji Ito through a Reddit comment linking to the enigma of amigara fault in imgur. A long time after that I read the Smashed short story. Recently my girlfriend and I decided to start collecting the physical Junji Ito books, and so far we’ve gotten Gyo, Remina, Uzumaki, Smashed and No Longer Human. I’ve only read the first two fully and I’m a little ways into Uzumaki now.
Iv never read any of Junji Ito stories before but Iv known about his work for a long time and after this video, I think I’m about to go buy some of them now lol
omg thank you for this! just earlier i decided to invest in junji ito’s work and was looking for a video with good information & this was at the top of my recommended!!
i watched this video right after finishing no longer human a couple months ago, which is my favorite piece of work of all time (the novel and the adaptation). Thank you so much for making such an amazing video about him. At the time of writing this I have read Uzumaki, Gyo, Dissolving Classroom, and Lovesickness and I can definitely say I am a HUGE fan of Ito's work. Keep up the amazing content specially with the stuff you've been doing on TikTok!
I discovered your channel tonight and ive honestly been glued to your catalog of videos for the last 5 hours. You’ve shot immediately to my favorite manga TH-camr, and I’ll be coming to your channel first and foremost for news, reviews, pickups, and ranking videos from now on. Keep up the fantastic work!! PS amazing collection, I have about 400 volumes rn and even that is overwhelming to keep up with, I couldn’t imagine reading a libraries worth. Legend.
Im new to the manga game, but yes also became a fan of Junji Ito by the memes of the Enigma of amigara, and Ive seen also drawings of uzumaki but never knew actually where they were from, but Ive been searching and searching for mangas down here in Mexico, and Panini wich is the number one publisher of mangas down here, published the short story collection you showed, and just yesterday I came across Gyo volume 2, they already have said they’re working on publishing Uzumaki, and I just can’t wait to get them for my collection, new suscriber here im really looking forward on seeing maybe more videos of Junji
This is an extremely meaningful comment to me. I only ever want to help people with the content I provide so to hear(read) this is absolutely amazing. Thank you!
I discovered Junji Ito manga's about 2 months ago and I first purchased Fragments of Horror. After seeing that Horror Manga's exists (not just manga's like naruto, dragonball, jujutsu kaisen,parasyte etc...) I fell in love and bought all the collections and stand-alone available till now! Can't wait to get the last 3 appearing this year. This is my first time venturing into reading Manga. Usually I would just watch anime's. But I am glad I did. Now I want to have a huge shelf with all the manga's from all my favourite anime as well. MY FAV JUNJI ITO must be Dissolving Clasroom! (Uzumaki not counting it cuz it's a masterpiece of its own)
I read Uzumaki as I was 14, and then I was terrified of horrors, so I had awful nightmare afterwards. Now it's the feeling I crave for while reading/watching horrors
First discovered junji ito in 2020,went into a comic shop with a friend who brought a junji artwork book while we were there. She showed me some of the art from the book and I fell in love. Went online and ordered uzumaki when I got home(the comic shop didn't have any junji books other than the art book) read it and I was hooked,now have all the books printed so far baring cat diary. Waiting for liminal zone to be released now.
I know that someone has compiled many fan translations of the stories without official translations on imgur including the red string, the thing that drifted ashore, ice cream bus, the smoking club, gift bearer and most of not all of the souichi stories. Unfortunately I lost the URL.
I love your videos like this! It’s so interesting to hear about all the different things a single mangaka does. I’m not into horror manga personally but this gave me the names of the ito volumes my boyfriend doesn’t have yet :)
17:45 this isnt a kind of nag or anything i just wanted you to know that the protagonist doesnt necessarily mean a positive character rather the main character of an story. In fact a protagonist can be much more evil or morally grey than the antagonist for example light yagami from death note. Love your vids. Keep them coming👊
I realized when I was editing that I didn’t really say what I meant at that point but let it stay. The MC of that title acts in both roles as the protagonist and antagonist, which is more why I was struggling with wanting to just say “protagonist.” Due to his actions throughout the story he winds up creating the obstacles and issues in his life himself, and I think that is part of the point of the narrative is that he is his own worst enemy, but until the words escaped my mouth I never thought about how to articulate that in few words without spending more than a sentence having to explain myself. I think the main character falls into the category of “failed protagonist” more than anything else because he does not really have any kind of positive development in his arc. It’s something to ponder further.
I currently have Uzumaki, Tomie, Gyo, No Longer Human and newest to my collection, Remina. Thanks for this guide since I'm going to collect every one of his works eventually. Edit: a week later and now I have added Smashed, Shiver and Loveless to the collection!
Thank you very much for this! I feel so overwhelmed by all the editions and work of Junji Ito there is! I started collecting the hard covers of Uzumaki, Tomie and Gyo, and had no idea about the other three which I sure will get soon! I also collected some of the editions ECC has launched. ECC is in Spanish, but they've got an 18 volume collection of Ito's short stories. Sadly, it's very difficult to find the box set and some of the volumes, because they're super slow with printing. I hope we could get something similar in English, so I can ordered them much easily.
Thank you for this! I also wanted to make that list! I hope we get the short story 'She's a Slow Walker' in a future book. It is set in the same universe of the 'I Am A Hero' manga series.
I learned of Junji Ito from Horror Show Mickey's YoutTube channel (great narrator!). I bought a few books after listening to his channel. This is great to learn the recent releases!
Thanks for this. I'm currently collecting junji ito's books and im not familiar with all of his books that has been translated in English. So thanks to this i am looking forward to purchasing sensor and desserter as they are yet to be released by viz. This was very informative. The 101 to junji ito.
My intro to Ito's work was The Enigma of Amigara Fault. About 10 years ago I was up late one night browsing one corner of the internet and came across a dump of the story on some image hosting site. The story was great. It was haunting and gave you this uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach but it was his art that drew me in. I'm not a huge collector but I did collect every one of his stories that I could get my hands on. I even brought back a couple of his japanese only tankobon volumes from when I was stationed in Japan. I'm glad to see him getting all of this love in the west now even from people who don't read manga because the man deserves every bit of it.
I started with Uzumaki, and haven't looked back. Lovesickness was awesome. I really loved the title story, I highly recommend it. Can't wait for more Ito to come out in the near future!
I love Junji Ito, I think I own most of what's been published in Spanish. Some of his, so to speak, deep cuts are absolutely great (I'm thinking of stuff like 'Lovesickness', which I adore). What we need now is an affiliate link to that amazing t-shirt you're wearing in the video!
At 30+ minutes it’s a long one, but not wasting time was exactly what I was aiming for. It’s a lot of material to cover so there’s no time to muck around.
Great video! Army of One is one of my personal favorite of Ito’s one-shots and I don’t recall it being mentioned in the video. It’s supposed to be a bonus story after Hellstar Remina but I don’t think it is in the english release :(
Awesome video. Learned about a lot of stuff I didn't know about despite having most of his American collection of books. How had I NOT heard of Rasputin, his longest work?! I hope that comes here soon. I've saving this video! Thanks!
I have three hardcover collections for Ito and I've yet to read a single panel from him (doing Uzumaki in October!). Sometimes, you just know an author is going to be for you, I think.
I read Uzumaki in a tent while camping, finished it at night during a pretty intense storm. I'll forever be chasing that feeling while reading horror.
I read it for the first time during chemotherapy. It helped get me through it
Nice profile pic
If you happen to live alone in an apartment or in a more urban setting, I recommend Mieruko-chan.
I love uzumaki with all my heart if u couldn’t tell
The day after I finished Uzumaki there was a tornado in my town. The true horror experience.
Uzumaki was my introduction to Junji Ito and utterly blew me away
Same buddy, I finished it in one go, just couldn't stop once I began lol!
Uzumaki is definitely great. Also i strongly recommend Tomie. That's absolutely one of Junji Ito's best one.
@@quangnhatho8331Thanks, will definitely check it out!
Never heard of Junji Ito, bit I just grabbed Uzumaki online on a whim. Will read it soon.
Same
no longer human is a pure masterpiece, I'd say if anything it is the scariest of the Ito works because it shows the horrors of anxiety and social isolation. Showing that the true horror is within our own lives.
Tho It is a novel adaptation but I 100 percent agree it was terrifying
@@bunchagrapes I agree, it really allows Ito to flex his artistic interpretation.
@@simcard867 I feel like the story was more realistic than u believe but I see how the story makes you want to sympathize with the main character
After I finished it I sat there and put the book down and sighed and just said wtf and felt numb like I really liked it but fuck was it depressing
@@simcard867 Honestly I don't think the story's very sympathetic to Yozo at all - keep in mind that most of the 'sympathetic' moments come from Oba himself, who in this story is an unreliable narrator. Sure, Yozo comes off as a sympathetic character but that's only if you take his word over the horrible things we see him do in the story.
In fact, I think one strong point of Ito's adaptation is that he makes Yozo *less* sympathetic by adding in more deaths for which he is responsible for, as well as allowing the reader to see his actions and how they conflict with his own narration. It really helps to bring Oba's complexity to the forefront of the story
here’s a resume that he listed :
(already released)
1. Uzumaki
2. Tomie
3. Gyo
4. Fragments of horror
5. Dissolving Classroom
6. Yon & Mu
7. Shiver
8. Franskenstein
9. Smashed
10. Lovesickness
11. No Longer Human
12. Venus in the blind spot
13. Remina
14. Sensor
Thank you!
ada physicalnya kak?
Thanks
Deserter is out now too! As well as his collector’s edition of Yon & Mu, and Liminal Zone coming out in July!! 🤩
Can you plz add the newly released too 😊
I literally went on youtube to search junji ito, only to find out that it was at the top of my recommended. Swear to God you read my mind
@Jesus Gideon that looks like it can be worth my time
@@aariz611 forgot abt it anyway lol
No your phone just listens to you and suggests ads and videos related to the topic
One thing I noticed about Ito's page layout is it's well placed. I don't know if it's Ito himself but it seems he sets up a feeling of suspense and you turn the page and the shocking image is one the opposite page. It's like you hesitate to turn the page to see it.
super eyepatch wolf made a video on this its a great storytelling technique that ito truly mastered
I noticed that too! You just know you’re going to see some disturbing stuff
Just so you know, that is Ito's planning and that feeling is 100% intentional
i've heard that referred to as the "page turn effect" before, and its actually why the movie adaptations of itos work hasn't done well, it can't produce the same feeling you get from the suspense of turning the page.
@@happyhealer2684 also the reason why reading his work digitally feel less good too.
UPDATE: LOVESICKNESS
As mentioned in the video this new hardcover includes the five chapters of the Lovesickness (The Lovesick Dead) story as well as five additional stories. Those stories, and the Japanese volumes they come from are as follows;
- The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: Narumi's Boyfriend - Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection Vol. 13: The Circus is Here
- The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance - Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection Vol. 13: The Circus is Here
- The Mansion of Phantom Pain - Museum of Terror Vol. 10: The Lovesick Dead
- The Rib Woman - Museum of Terror Vol. 10: The Lovesick Dead
- Memories of Real Poop - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 16: Frankenstein (this volume is now completely available in English)
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UPDATE: DESERTER
This upcoming hardcover should be a direct English translation of the Masterpiece Collection: House of the Deserter, which itself collects everything from the long out of print English volume Long Hair in the Attic. The collected stories, and the Japanese volumes they come from should be as follows;
- Bio-House - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 7: Slug Girl
- The Face Burglar - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 4: The Face Burglar
- Den of the Sleep Demon - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 10: House of the Marionettes
- The Devil's Logic - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes
- The Long Hair in the Attic - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 3: Flesh Colored Horror
- Love as Scripted - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully
- Sword of the Reanimator - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes
- Heart of a Father - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully
- Unbearable Maze - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 8: Blood-Bubble Bushes
- The Village of Sirens - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 11: The Town Without Streets
- The Bully - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully
- House of the Deserter - Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Vol. 12: The Bully
Update: Kodansha is re-releasing Cat Diary in a hardcover volume with extra supplemental content.
Update: Kodansha is re-releasing Dissolving Classroom in a hardcover volume as well.
Noooo I just bought it last week!
@@naroh-noraa3253 sell it, before more people know about the hardcover ;)
Updated to include stories from Lovesickness and Deserter
There's just something about hard covers and Junji Ito that go so well together. It's like premium meets master. Chefs kiss. 🖤
Lovesickness is good!!
This channel is a gem
you can already preorder junji itos next books: Lovesickness, Sensor, Deserter. all releasing until the end of 2021. So i think we got 4 Junji ito books this year! (im counting Remina too because in my region it arrived in January instead of the american release, which was before in December)
Very great
Those omnibus hardcovers are so nice, the colored artwork is so nice especially in venus in the blind spot. Such nice artwork
Can we talk about how great your intro is 😭✋
i've only read no longer human by him. jesus christ most incredible piece of art i have ever consumed, loved everything about it and left me depressed.
I love how the dust cover when looked through the light makes Venus blurry like she's in the blind spot
Wow
@@turtleanton6539 well, I was going to use I as a dm shield, then noticed the image
@@OwliSketches haha ok
I read Uzumaki back in middle school at the public library. Saw it on the shelf and was super curious. Ever since then it's been in my mind. I could forget about the book completely but then out of nowhere a few years later my brain is like "remember that horror book about spirals?" And I'm like "Uzumaki! I should read that again!"
I was inspired here and picked up Gyo, Tomie and Uzumaki. Thanks.
All worth it.
I also recommend 'no longer human' it's about Osamu Dazai (Author of the original novel) experiencing some very hard moments in his life. He shares his experiences dealing with self-isolation, anxiety, depression and more. it's absolutely NOT for children as it contains some very graphic moments. The adaptation by Ito will leave you terrified after you read it. it's a very good horror manga and definitely worth checking out.
Thanks for doing this. I’m trying to get into manga. I’ve read Alita, Berserk, and Omni 1 of Gantz.
these are all toptier manga, how about: Pluto, Monster, 20th century boys, attack on titan(it has some rough art at the beginning but an amazing story), death note, and ofcourse jojo. (the first part of jojo is kinda lame, you really have to torture yourself through it. The second part of jojo is descent but everything after part 2 is simply amazing and absolutely worth it. You could also just start reading the 7th part called "steel ball run", because it is set in an alternate universe, so you could consider it a reboot, jojo part 7 is absolutely god tier manga just like berserk.)
check out Innocent and its sequel, Innocent Rouge. it's a dark, gorey story set in 18th century France and the art is absolutely immaculate. also pretty short at 99 and 88 chapters respectively
Keep up with berserk and GANTZ and try HELLSING
Try Vagabond and Blame!
You should try Vinland saga
I went out today and got Uzumaki from Barns&Noble I can't wait to read this horror manga by Junji Ito.
They can't stop printing his stuff in English until it's all out! I think this should be enshined in law somehow. Then somehow we need to invest all our technological progress in keeping Junji as healthy as possible for as long as possible so he can write tons more stuff, lol.
I also desperately want to have a full Souichi book.
Lol, best comment 👍🏾🤣🤣
That very book is now available on English!
@@nessiesearcher Thanks, i grabbed a copy on pre-order and am very happy now
I’m a huuuuge fan of all his work and this video was VERY handful. Immediately purchased like 4 of these books online. Thank you so much!
Uzumaki takes the cake when it comes to overall story-telling, and imagery. He absolutely out-did himself on that one, and it will forever be my favorite Junji Ito/horror manga also mainly since it was my introduction to being a manga reader in general. Always loved anime, but took me until only about a year ago to start reading manga.
Same here. I bought Uzumaki after i finished my last exam of the fourth semester while waiting on my train home.
Began to read it during the ride and became hooked. Soon after that i bought Gyo and Shiver. Then i got myself Berserk, Blame!, Monster, Dragonball, Lone Wolf and Cub and Fist of the North Star. I love manga much more than anime now.
You reading the Question in the opening=instant subscribe. You clearly have excellent taste.
My manga collection consists basically of Monster by Naoki Urasawa, all Junji Ito work available in english and the adaptation of The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo lol
A well curated collection is an A+ collection!
Wow, there's a lot that haven't been published yet - nice! Fantastic video once again, very informative and enjoyable. I have only bought Uzumaki, Tomie and Shiver thus far but I'm planning on picking all of them up over some years.
I think this is the only complete and comprehensive guide to Junji Ito's works I've ever watched. I'm new to Junji Ito, bought Uzumaki a few months ago, blew me away, and now planning to collect all of those beautiful collections. This video helped a lot. Nice work!
Thank you! There may be some things missing, but I made this as complete as I could with the resources I could find 🙂
I love Junji Ito, I have every one of the Viz editions of his works and one art book. I knew about Lovesickness but I had no idea that there were two more scheduled after and I am so excited, thank you for pointing these out! I hope that Viz keeps up with the Ito collections and is able to release most if not all in English, I would buy every single one to complete my collection.
I really hope viz media brings more of souichi’s stories the ones in smashed were very good
Awesome guide to Ito! Also Viz published an Ito artbook last year that is amazing. I highly recommend it because his artwork is so amazing :)
I was gonna call out that you left out the other stories included in Gyo but you mentioned them 👍🏻
As an Ito fan who's read most of his work (including the untranslated short stories), I'll give some advice. If you're new to Ito, without exception, Uzumaki should be your way-in. It's by far, the most well-known of his stories, and it's pretty good.
If you're a bit more experienced with Ito, however, going so far as to read Gyo, and the entire Junji Ito collection fan translated; I highly recommend you check out "Black Paradox," which is one of Ito's medium-length stories, which lasts for a few chapters.
EDIT: In the Deserter Volume, which will be released this Winter, I believe we will be getting most of the stories from the "Junji Ito Collection: The Bully," which coincidentally features "The Deserter," as well as some of Ito's earliest works. My guess as to the stories in this volume: (For anyone familiar with the Mueseum of Terror Vol 3 Release of Ito, which is currently $1,000s of dollars anywhere online, it will be featuring most the stories in that collection. This is my guess:
-The Deserter (Confirmed)
-The Bully (High-likelihood)
-Heart of a Father (High-likelihood; also my favorite Ito story of all time)
-The Will (Based on the line "A pair of girls look alike, but they aren't twins" ; good guess)
-Sword of the Reanimator (Good guess)
So that's potentially 5/12 of the stories in this Volume
Now, let me talk about key differences and stories that belong to The Bully anthology, that won't be included:
-Love as Scripted (Already in SHIVER's release)
And that's pretty much it
Despite having read practically all of his anthologies, this is what is giving me trouble: "A boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world." If anyone has some idea to which story this is referring to, comment it.
Started off with his cat diary and now I own 5 so far. Right now I am reading Remina. Can't wait to finish them all!!
Great video ! I'm sitting on Gyo need to read that soon. Gonna be a march break treat I think !
This is my first video from you and guess what? I'm now binging on all the rest 🥰 so glad I stumbled upon this vid. I'm an Ito fan myself and this is really helpful
I’ve been looking for a guide like this!! The Wikipedia does a terrible job of delivering this information, thank you!
I first learned about Junji Ito through a Reddit comment linking to the enigma of amigara fault in imgur. A long time after that I read the Smashed short story.
Recently my girlfriend and I decided to start collecting the physical Junji Ito books, and so far we’ve gotten Gyo, Remina, Uzumaki, Smashed and No Longer Human. I’ve only read the first two fully and I’m a little ways into Uzumaki now.
Iv never read any of Junji Ito stories before but Iv known about his work for a long time and after this video, I think I’m about to go buy some of them now lol
omg thank you for this! just earlier i decided to invest in junji ito’s work and was looking for a video with good information & this was at the top of my recommended!!
i watched this video right after finishing no longer human a couple months ago, which is my favorite piece of work of all time (the novel and the adaptation). Thank you so much for making such an amazing video about him. At the time of writing this I have read Uzumaki, Gyo, Dissolving Classroom, and Lovesickness and I can definitely say I am a HUGE fan of Ito's work. Keep up the amazing content specially with the stuff you've been doing on TikTok!
Yes, this is exactly the guide I need, heard good things about Junji Ito's work and I'm not sure where to start.
I started at Uzumaki this year, no regrets
I’m hoping we get Black Paradox. Read it online a while back and it’s one of my favs of his I’d love in my collection. Great video man 👍
im pretty sure we're getting it this fall! i cant wait
The second-hand record has already been released in Shiver. I believe they changed the title to Used Record. Great Video btw.
Dude, thanks for the summarization of these releases. I didn’t know where to start when it came to his work released in the u.s.a.
I discovered your channel tonight and ive honestly been glued to your catalog of videos for the last 5 hours. You’ve shot immediately to my favorite manga TH-camr, and I’ll be coming to your channel first and foremost for news, reviews, pickups, and ranking videos from now on. Keep up the fantastic work!! PS amazing collection, I have about 400 volumes rn and even that is overwhelming to keep up with, I couldn’t imagine reading a libraries worth. Legend.
Im new to the manga game, but yes also became a fan of Junji Ito by the memes of the Enigma of amigara, and Ive seen also drawings of uzumaki but never knew actually where they were from, but Ive been searching and searching for mangas down here in Mexico, and Panini wich is the number one publisher of mangas down here, published the short story collection you showed, and just yesterday I came across Gyo volume 2, they already have said they’re working on publishing Uzumaki, and I just can’t wait to get them for my collection, new suscriber here im really looking forward on seeing maybe more videos of Junji
I've been wanting to start reading Ito's work but while browsing I always felt kinda lost about where to begin. Thanks!
Thank you! This was so comprehensive and I really appreciate it as some one who just got into reading Ito's work and I want more!
You are undoubtedly my favorite youtuber of all time. Your videos are very informative and definitely help me out when i don't know what to read.
This is an extremely meaningful comment to me. I only ever want to help people with the content I provide so to hear(read) this is absolutely amazing. Thank you!
I discovered Junji Ito manga's about 2 months ago and I first purchased Fragments of Horror. After seeing that Horror Manga's exists (not just manga's like naruto, dragonball, jujutsu kaisen,parasyte etc...) I fell in love and bought all the collections and stand-alone available till now! Can't wait to get the last 3 appearing this year. This is my first time venturing into reading Manga. Usually I would just watch anime's. But I am glad I did. Now I want to have a huge shelf with all the manga's from all my favourite anime as well. MY FAV JUNJI ITO must be Dissolving Clasroom! (Uzumaki not counting it cuz it's a masterpiece of its own)
Thank you!
This is an amazing compilation of Junji Ito's work.
7:30
Normal person: "Oh, how quaint, a closed wash bin."
Me: * internal panicked screaming *
Very informative video. It's also maybe worth mentioning that Viz put out a junji Ito artbook called twisted visions
The manga shelves in the background look really amazing
I read Uzumaki as I was 14, and then I was terrified of horrors, so I had awful nightmare afterwards. Now it's the feeling I crave for while reading/watching horrors
I didn't even know there was that much physical books from him lol.
Would love to see your tier list for Junji Ito books
Yes! Love it, gave me exactly the info needed
this is my favorite video ever thank you so much
First discovered junji ito in 2020,went into a comic shop with a friend who brought a junji artwork book while we were there. She showed me some of the art from the book and I fell in love. Went online and ordered uzumaki when I got home(the comic shop didn't have any junji books other than the art book) read it and I was hooked,now have all the books printed so far baring cat diary. Waiting for liminal zone to be released now.
Amazing video as always. Keep doing this excelente work towards the manga “universe”.
I know that someone has compiled many fan translations of the stories without official translations on imgur including the red string, the thing that drifted ashore, ice cream bus, the smoking club, gift bearer and most of not all of the souichi stories. Unfortunately I lost the URL.
I love your videos like this! It’s so interesting to hear about all the different things a single mangaka does. I’m not into horror manga personally but this gave me the names of the ito volumes my boyfriend doesn’t have yet :)
Really informative video. Just got into his work and enjoying them immensely
17:45 this isnt a kind of nag or anything i just wanted you to know that the protagonist doesnt necessarily mean a positive character rather the main character of an story. In fact a protagonist can be much more evil or morally grey than the antagonist for example light yagami from death note. Love your vids. Keep them coming👊
I realized when I was editing that I didn’t really say what I meant at that point but let it stay.
The MC of that title acts in both roles as the protagonist and antagonist, which is more why I was struggling with wanting to just say “protagonist.”
Due to his actions throughout the story he winds up creating the obstacles and issues in his life himself, and I think that is part of the point of the narrative is that he is his own worst enemy, but until the words escaped my mouth I never thought about how to articulate that in few words without spending more than a sentence having to explain myself.
I think the main character falls into the category of “failed protagonist” more than anything else because he does not really have any kind of positive development in his arc. It’s something to ponder further.
I currently have Uzumaki, Tomie, Gyo, No Longer Human and newest to my collection, Remina. Thanks for this guide since I'm going to collect every one of his works eventually.
Edit: a week later and now I have added Smashed, Shiver and Loveless to the collection!
Should I buy uzumaki or tomie
Thanks for this. I am just getting into Ito and got Tomie, but I may hold off on reading and look for Uzumaki. :)
I didn't realize there was so much untranslated. I want ALL of it. Love Ito.
super informative, thank you so much! I'm trying to collect all the junji ito works and this helps. new subscriber
U really love these kind of video. Keep it up!
Amazing explantation/review! Immediately made me buy another one of Junji Ito's works
Super helpful guide, I was able to learn about a few of Ito's books that i was missing, thanks a lot, just subscribed💯
Great video I've never read Junji Ito's manga before
Omg please please do!!
@@anniewright9532 I've read it already it was really good and astonishing
@@anniewright9532 I went and picked Uzumaki up last Saturday at Barns&Nobles
@@anniewright9532 now I'm returning my attention to collecting Vagabond
love your reviews man
keep it up
Thank you very much for this! I feel so overwhelmed by all the editions and work of Junji Ito there is! I started collecting the hard covers of Uzumaki, Tomie and Gyo, and had no idea about the other three which I sure will get soon! I also collected some of the editions ECC has launched. ECC is in Spanish, but they've got an 18 volume collection of Ito's short stories. Sadly, it's very difficult to find the box set and some of the volumes, because they're super slow with printing. I hope we could get something similar in English, so I can ordered them much easily.
Dude, just found your channel. Great content and awesome collection. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Just ordered Uzumaki. It’ll be my introduction to Junji Ito so I’m pretty excited
Thank you for this! I also wanted to make that list! I hope we get the short story 'She's a Slow Walker' in a future book. It is set in the same universe of the 'I Am A Hero' manga series.
in the first 45 seconds of this I got excited cause I saw the Yowamushi Pedal volumes on the shelf behind him
Thank you for guiding me, now I understand clearly than ever!
I'm looking forward to collecting more of Itos work! Thank you for making this! ^_^
Been waiting on this video!
I tried looking into this myself and it was so confusing, this is really helpful
Do a video on Samurai Deeper Kyo please!!!! I see it on your shelf!!!
I learned of Junji Ito from Horror Show Mickey's YoutTube channel (great narrator!). I bought a few books after listening to his channel. This is great to learn the recent releases!
Thanks for this. I'm currently collecting junji ito's books and im not familiar with all of his books that has been translated in English. So thanks to this i am looking forward to purchasing sensor and desserter as they are yet to be released by viz. This was very informative. The 101 to junji ito.
Uzumaki was my introduction to Junji Ito and I loved it! Mostly the ending. It was so beautifully done and it's very open-ended as well.
My intro to Ito's work was The Enigma of Amigara Fault. About 10 years ago I was up late one night browsing one corner of the internet and came across a dump of the story on some image hosting site. The story was great. It was haunting and gave you this uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach but it was his art that drew me in. I'm not a huge collector but I did collect every one of his stories that I could get my hands on. I even brought back a couple of his japanese only tankobon volumes from when I was stationed in Japan. I'm glad to see him getting all of this love in the west now even from people who don't read manga because the man deserves every bit of it.
enigma of amigara fault was my intro to him too!!
This is such a helpful video, you should do more of these kinda videos for different manga series!
I started with Uzumaki, and haven't looked back.
Lovesickness was awesome. I really loved the title story, I highly recommend it. Can't wait for more Ito to come out in the near future!
I love Junji Ito, I think I own most of what's been published in Spanish. Some of his, so to speak, deep cuts are absolutely great (I'm thinking of stuff like 'Lovesickness', which I adore).
What we need now is an affiliate link to that amazing t-shirt you're wearing in the video!
I don’t remember where I got it. One of the general shirt sites like shirt punch or something
@@omnibuscollector I'll look around for it, thanks for answering!
This video was so helpful!!!! Thank you!!!
I've started collecting these myself now, so this was quite the helpful guide!
Great video, didn't waste my time and got straight to the point, you just earned a subscriber and I hope your channel gets the recognition it deserves
At 30+ minutes it’s a long one, but not wasting time was exactly what I was aiming for. It’s a lot of material to cover so there’s no time to muck around.
@@omnibuscollector Well, you did a wonderful job.
I finished Uzumaki a week ago and I'm picking no longer human and tomie soon
the enigma of amigara fault was the first story I heard too and it hooked me ever since
The art is all over thr place and I love it. Super detailed that you had to pause reading to admire the lineart.
I read it today and now I need more
Great video! Army of One is one of my personal favorite of Ito’s one-shots and I don’t recall it being mentioned in the video. It’s supposed to be a bonus story after Hellstar Remina but I don’t think it is in the english release :(
It’s one of the stories in Venus in the Blind Spot but under a different title
@@omnibuscollector You are a god thank you so much. Will be picking up a copy
This was super comprehensive. Thanks so much! I didn't know about Deserter so I put it on my wishlist
This mans manga collection is insane
Awesome video. Learned about a lot of stuff I didn't know about despite having most of his American collection of books. How had I NOT heard of Rasputin, his longest work?! I hope that comes here soon. I've saving this video! Thanks!
I have three hardcover collections for Ito and I've yet to read a single panel from him (doing Uzumaki in October!). Sometimes, you just know an author is going to be for you, I think.
Love your manga videos
Good video. I would like to see a similar overview of the work of Kago Shintarou.
There’s a lot of Kago I need to buy/read first, but I’d definitely like to do more of these in general