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Confession Time: I love Junji Ito and will definitely watch this but.. I don't think I've ever found any of his stuff actually scary. Creepy for sure, but I never walked away from any of his stories with any uneasy feeling. Maybe manga/anime just isn't the right medium for me to be creeped out, because a lot of horror movies have worked. I mostly appreciate Ito for the great art and how good he is at using that art to create an eerie mood.
For me, his stuff is kinda like H.P. Lovecraft's, in that what's unsettling are the concepts explored in the stories and how they relate to the metaphors/allegories they are (and where Ito beats Lovecraft is that at least his monsters don't boil down to allergories for miscegenation). I think the term used is Cosmic Horror.
And yeah the guy can draw some absolutely unhinged stuff in gruesome detail.
Manga/anime's aesthetics don't really lend themselves well to horror in general- I remember this old Mother's Basement video about that. Anime can do psychological horror decently well tho- I think the only anime I ever found actually scary were the original Higurashi and the first episode of Gakkou Gurashi (School Live).
Confession Time: I love Junji Ito and will definitely watch this but.. I don't think I've ever found any of his stuff actually scary. Creepy for sure, but I never walked away from any of his stories with any uneasy feeling. Maybe manga/anime just isn't the right medium for me to be creeped out, because a lot of horror movies have worked. I mostly appreciate Ito for the great art and how good he is at using that art to create an eerie mood.
For me, his stuff is kinda like H.P. Lovecraft's, in that what's unsettling are the concepts explored in the stories and how they relate to the metaphors/allegories they are (and where Ito beats Lovecraft is that at least his monsters don't boil down to allergories for miscegenation). I think the term used is Cosmic Horror.
And yeah the guy can draw some absolutely unhinged stuff in gruesome detail.
Manga/anime's aesthetics don't really lend themselves well to horror in general- I remember this old Mother's Basement video about that. Anime can do psychological horror decently well tho- I think the only anime I ever found actually scary were the original Higurashi and the first episode of Gakkou Gurashi (School Live).