FRAGMENTS OF HORROR HC JUNJI ITO: Volume 1

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Dissection-chan" repeatedly shows Ruriko topless, but given her obsession with being dissected (which extends to posing as a cadaver so she can sneak into a hospital), it's far from titillating. Manami Kino's name means "academics of wood", fitting because she is a student interested in a wooden mansion, and taken alone, "ki no", "wooden", foreshadows her ultimate state. I found the stories in this collection to be less impressive than those in Shiver or Smashed, but I still enjoy Mr. Ito's work. My favorite is Gentle Goodbye, to me, it's a sad story. Armitage, Hugh (December 9, 2014). "Junji Ito's Fragments of Horror coming to Viz Media". Digital Spy . Retrieved March 26, 2016.

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I do love how short the stories are, and even though they are short, they still managed to get across a subtle level of disturbing that creeps in your head for a while, even after finishing the story. It was really hard to put the book down and was easy to jump into the small world built around each story. So overall rating ( because who doesn't like numbers and averages ) :- 3.5 (well now that's difficult , should I rate it 3 or 4) Como en toda colección, no todas las historias pueden estar a la misma altura pero el conjunto es muy notable. Fedotov, Svetlana (June 30, 2015). " Fragments of Horror (Comic Book Review)". Fangoria. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018 . Retrieved December 4, 2017. Johnston, Rich (June 15, 2015). "Junji Ito's Return to Cosmic Terror in Fragments of Horror". Bleeding Cool News . Retrieved March 26, 2016.

A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase Junji Ito’s long-awaited return to the world of horror.” — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23705532-fragments-of-horror

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Magami Nanakuse": The truth behind a literally-quirky author's work is far stranger than the fiction it inspires. De resto me ha parecido una parodia con un tono demasiado absurdo y con aspectos que no me han gustado nada como están tratados. Ruriko Tamiya in "Dissection-chan" is obsessed with being dissected from cutting up animals as a child, and visibly suffers internal pains. It turns out when she finally gets her wish (at her autopsy), her organs have mutated into a bizarre conglomeration of the animals she has tortured, killed and cut open.

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But more on point, I think, is Itō's great predecessor in horror comics creation: Kazuo Umezu. Art by Kazuo Umezu from "Butterfly Grave", as translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian in "Scary Book Vol. 2: Insects", Dark Horse Comics, 2006 These diary-style comics explore his relationship with his cats, with all kinds of silly misadventures. Many of the story techniques Ito uses for his horror comics are flipped on their head and played as humour. And even these distinctions have a way of breaking down. It's not just women who read magazines targeted at women, and audiences for collected editions can diversify yet further. Itō has created work for virtually every audience, because his aesthetic is strong; he enjoys terrific and broad appeal. But manga is a very large thing, and its complexities can encourage subtle evolution, like that of this book which whispers like a worldview. It is probably a phantom, conjured from marketing stratagems and collaborative disposition... but who is it that's drawn so many comics about weird and hidden things revealed...

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In an in-depth review for The Comics Journal, Joe McCulloch opined that the collection was hardly representative of Ito's best work, with only "Whispering Woman" standing out from the others artistically, yet contained interesting shared themes across many of its stories. He made note of how most of the interesting characters in the collection were female - either put-upon protagonists or powerful, liberated, and uncaring antagonists, while the majority of male characters were either treacherous or dull. In his eyes, the common narrative across the collection was one of women confronted by the faithlessness of their male partners and then offered liberation through the actions or example of the consistently female supernatural antagonist. Ultimately, however, McCulloch felt that these themes were not genuine, but rather a slightly cynical attempt to profit from a magazine with a primarily female audience, a motive that he saw as being satirized in the self-aware "Magami Nanakuse". [25] There is a good deal of cultural precedence for this story. Simplistically, there is the 1977 Nobuhiko Ōbayashi film Hausu, an uninhibited barrage of experimental terror effects animating its sad story of, among other things, a girl who cannot abide her father marrying another woman now that her mother is dead. Itō's piece is far more single-minded (and not nearly as visually interesting), but the heroine's conflict is much the same: she objects to her father's new union, which she latently understands will annihilate their household. Contrast this with the lover-betrayers of every previously-discussed story in this book involving a female protagonist, and suddenly Itō seems a great deal more conservative. For the month of July, the Counter Arts Book Club (in the guise of Jess the Avocado) set us a collection of graphic short stories as our monthly read for review.Como ocurre siempre con este autor, el dibujo es lo más destacable, la precisión a la hora de mostrar esos terrores que a muchos nos pueden asolar en un momento dado. The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish manuscripts penned between the third century B.C. and the first century A.D., include the oldest known fragments of the Hebrew Bible. Modern researchers first learned of the texts’ existence in the 1940s, when local Bedouin shepherds happened upon a set of the scrolls in the Qumran Caves. This is a collection of short stories that were originally created in the mid 1990s. These include:

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Oct 31 The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross Launches Special Collaboration Game Update With Overlord Anime Offscreen Teleportation: In "Dissection-chan", Tatsuro, the doctor protagonist, has an encounter with the titular character at a park. He runs away to home, but she's already there, undressed on his bed, ready to be cut open.a b Luster, Joseph (December 15, 2015). "Viz Media Licenses Junji Ito's "Fragment of Horror" Manga". Crunchyroll . Retrieved December 15, 2015. I will conclude by noting that Itō published another book of horror shorts just a few months after Fragments of Horror was released in Japan: The Melting Classroom, collecting linked shorts which initially ran in the Akita Shoten josei magazine motto!, aimed at women. These are raucous, splattery things starring a pair of demonic siblings who cause people's brains to leak out of their faces; very different from Fragments of Horror. Art from "The Melting Classroom", Akita Shoten, 2014 This is a collection of stories that centre around the central character of Tomie. She is a femme fatale who can seduce nearly any man and drive them to murder. With a mix of psychological horror and the supernatural, each story tells of her seducing a man and its aftermath.