![]() ![]() Things then get supernatural when they discover the village is completely overrun with tombstones. ![]() ![]() Things get tense after they accidentally hit a young woman with their car, and decide to conceal the crime rather than admit to it. “Tombs”: This collection’s namesake follows a pair of siblings take a trip to visit a friend in the middle of nowhere. Best get it over with quickly and enjoy yourself. It’s a choice sampler of nearly everything that’s made him one of the most popular horror manga creators in history, and I’m tempted to call this one of the ‘safer’ ways for newcomers to start reading him.īut that’s like jumping into a lake of freezing water it doesn’t really matter how you do it, because it’s going to be shocking. Regardless of how you got here, Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection includes nine short tales from an earlier period in Ito’s career (between 1994 – 1997), some of which have been animated in that above-mentioned Netflix anthology. Maybe you caught the Netflix anthology Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre? Or enjoyed last year’s digitally created The Liminal Zone? Perhaps you spotted him hamming it up with Guillermo del Toro in Death Stranding? The onslaught of freshly-translated works from Junji Ito continues! It’ll never end! The legendary Japanese horror manga maestro’s popularity has exploded in recent years thanks to (what feels like) an endless influx of new and older titles making their way to Western audiences thanks to his absurdly stacked back catalogue and other appearances. ![]()
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