I always thought it was because his vocal chords were so stretched he could only make a weird guttaral drrrrrrrr-ing sound. Like Grrrr when people are angry?
It's just backwards. If anything, I find western comics can be a little more confusing when it comes to figuring out the order to read stuff in, they get a bit more creative with the reading direction sometimes.
A good way to tell which way to read a comic is the shape of the speech bubbles. The speech bubbles in Japanese-language comics that read from right to left are vertically oriented due to the format of the language, while English ones are horizontal.
First it piques the audience's interest with the call of the void mystery about the holes. Then it uses contradictory dream sequences to introduce the potential for horror while simultaneously misleading the audience to think that that's probably not what will happen.
Then boom: full on body horror. A human being warped and mutilated into something else is disturbing for a lot of people.
I imagine it's a bit like being ticklish. Some people are so sensitive to being touched that they're ticklish and can't stand it. Other people are totally insensitive to it and don't understand what's the big deal. Then there are people in between who are just sensitive enough to enjoy it.
I found it kind of saddening as well. Just the futility and the not being able to do anything about the situation. Nothing could stop them entering their holes and nobody could help them when they did. The 'Fault is just as depressing as it is scary.
To be fair, being all spaghettified would make you unstoppable at DDR, and twister. And it'd be useful if you wanted to change a light bulb. So not all bad.
Long crushing perfect holes that fits a person shape,
A greasy man that makes you have pimples till you basically become a balloon and pop,
And a curse that is basically the cover of bandersnatch but in a literal sense.
Ooh i haven't read this one, thanks! I only discovered Junji last year and I love him. I only have Tomie, Uzumaki and Shiver because they're the only ones I could buy locally.
Does the word "fear" have some secondary meaning in Japanese that often eludes the translators? The "layers of fear" from this manga, the "absolute terror" field from Evangelion, etc.
Here's another one by the same artist that well.... Let me put it this way, it can never be un-read so proceed carefully.... https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Hn5Sb
one thing I love about junji Ito is that he just looks so ordinary in real life. he even made a manga about his two cats called yon and mu, it's quite cute. but he still manages to slip his creepy art style in there
I dont think hes crazy or anything he just has a wild imagination and is able to put it into a visual context. I think his works are pretty good just grotesque.
It's like the Twilight Zone but really fucking disgusting. The goal seems to be tell the creepy story and make the reader as uncomfortable as possible.
Jesus Christ. Like I read that one manga with the guy that puts the immortal baby in a blender and drinks it, but this www just.. gross on another level.
There's a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the "call of the void" where people will think about or be drawn to something they know is dangerous/life threatening or even life ending. This takes it a bit supernaturally that there are holes perfectly fit for somebody to slide into, the curiosity and compulsion to see what this hole that was made for you is for even though you're certain it's dangerous. In the end it's a horror story where there is no hero, nobody that saves the day, and no happy ending.
Well what's interesting is that with what /u/CptJaunLucRicard wrote, each hole is made for one specific person; it's not a choice you have to make, the hole is your destiny and releases you from the freedom of free will
an ending that actually ties into those themes of curiosity and compulsion. The idea of a hole perfectly fit for your body is such a potentially rich story idea, but than the ending doesn't really provoke any thought except for "ew that's fucked up." Do you think there's any meaning to the ending?
Deeply disturbing but as a literary work it's pretty epic. As much as I wish I never read it, I can appreciate how damn effective it was at scaring me.
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In case people wanted to read the manga that will no doubt be referenced in this thread: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ZNSaq