Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Viz LLC (2018), Edition: Illustrated, 408 pages
Description
"Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster--and the fouler beast who created him--to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro he is known for. Also included are six tales of Oshikiri--a high school student who lives in a decaying mansion connected to a haunted parallel world. Uncanny doppelgangers, unfortunately murdered friends, and a whole lot more are in store for him. Bonus: The Ito family dog! Thrill to the adventures of Non-non Ito, an adorable Maltese!"--
User reviews
LibraryThing member yoyogod
This is a manga adaptation of [[Mary Shelly]]'s classic [Frankenstein], with a few short, original pieces about a boy named Oshikiri who lives in a house that has a portal to other dimensions (and I'm not sure that all the stories feature the same Oshikiri as many seem to take place in different
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realities) and a couple of stories about his (Junji ito's) mother's dog. I didn't particularly care for the adaptation. I didn't think it was as much fun as his original works, and he made a few changes (with the death of William Frankenstein and the creation of the female creature) to make the creature more monstrous and Frankenstein less so. Those changes made the story far less interesting than the original. Show Less
LibraryThing member villemezbrown
Junji Ito's work is always worth a look, even if the first half of this collection is yet another adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The monster is gruesome, even if he looks a bit like an extra from Attack on Titan, but the rest of the adaptation is rather pedestrian.
The connected short
The connected short
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stories in the back half of the book are more typical of Ito's creepiness, as an evil boy discovers his home is a gateway to alternate dimensions. Unfortunately, they are dark dimensions and his evil doppelgangers start using his house to dump bodies of people they have murdered and perpetrate other schemes. Ito dishes up plenty of the body horror for which he is notorious. Show Less
LibraryThing member ritaer
Pretty sure Ito changed the story when the monster asks Viktor to create a female. In the original Viktor destroys the female out of fear that the couple will reproduce--apparently being too stupid to leave out the necessary parts--in this version the monster brings the head of the innocent
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nursemaid who was executed for the murder of a child and that head makes the female monster hate and reject him. Interesting to see a different cultural and generational take on the story. Other tales in the collection a variety of horror and ghost tales. Show Less
LibraryThing member Adlanji
love his retelling of frankenstein + the interesting life of oshikiri
LibraryThing member rubyman
Junji has this special atmosphere in all his works. Everyone is miserable. It feels honest for some reason.
Awards
Language
Original publication date
2013
Physical description
8.25 inches
ISBN
1974703762 / 9781974703760