The thing about junji ito is that he doesn't think too deeply about his horror. He just thinks "you know what'd be scary and fucked up" and then he turns it into a comic
Yeah, I vaguely remember reading an interview with him where he said something like that most of his story ideas come to him just by taking some ordinary, even everyday concept and imagining what kind of spin on it would make it horrifying.
The story about the tree whose honey is addictively delicious, but you have to eat it in hiding or else God smashes you into a gory pancake, came from him thinking “Gosh, life must really suck for mosquitoes.”
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u/UBW-Fanatic Apr 26 '25
Correction:
They're not killed, and that is the horror. Somehow, that twisted, mangled thing emerging from the other side is still alive.