![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will want to turn pages swiftly, not only to see what happens next once seen, Ito’s images – startlingly addictive and terrifying both – can’t be unseen. A live-action film adaptation, titled Love Ghost, was released in. It was serialized in Nemuki from May to November 1996 and collected into one volume in May 1997. Three shorts conclude the collection, about a boy whose pain controls the family mansion, the fatal perils of addictive cosmetic surgery, and a fleeting obsession with fake (or not?) feces. Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection ( Japanese:, Hepburn: Shibito no Koiwazurai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. ![]() In the two-part “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings,” a parentless family wreaks supernatural torture on others – and themselves. Eight years later, an irresistible specter in black is inspiring multiplying suicides, and Ryusuke fights for survival. Middle-schooler Ryusuke’s return to Nazumi quickly causes debilitating tension, as he is convinced that his six-year-old self caused a desperate pregnant woman’s death. Translated into English by Jocelyne Allen, who also translated his Eisner-winning Frankenstein, Ito’s latest imported collection opens with the five-part titular “Lovesickness.” In relentlessly foggy Nazumi, the “strange, ancient Japanese folkway” practice of “crossroads fortunes” involves standing at an intersection and asking the first passing stranger to answer a question about future love. In the almost-quarter-century since his manga debut, Junji Ito has undoubtedly ascended to world-renown for his prolific tales of horror. ![]()
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