![]() ![]() Standouts from the book are 'An Unearthly Love' (unpredictable and tense), 'How Love Came to Professor Kirida' (incredibly entertaining) and the classic 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault' (disturbing as hell). Then there's Sensor, Ito's most recent work to date, along with Dissolving Classroom and No Longer Human. (3.5) Venus in the Blind Spot is described as a 'best of' collection, featuring 'the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito's career'. ![]() ![]() This includes the tale of Gyo, where rotted fish and sharks invade coastal Japan while marching on sickly mechanical legs and infecting people with poison gas, or Remina, where a terrifying living planet approaches the Earth and drives the hysterical crowds to crucify an innocent girl to appease their new celestial overlord. Later stories are shorter than Tomie and Uzumaki, but are still longer than any of his short stories. The heroine, Kirie, can do little but stare in horror as spiral shapes mutate and torture everyone around her eventually, the town itself might become one giant spiral of madness. It tells the story of a secluded coastal Japanese town and its battle against an infestation of spiral shapes, which appear on everything from currents of water and smoke to pottery, people's bodies and far more. Ito's second lengthy series is perhaps his most famous, the tale of Uzumaki. Junji Ito is the famed horror manga artist behind popular works such as Uzumaki and Tomie, and was a collaborator on the canceled Silent Hills. RELATED: Bleach Creator Says Thousand-Year Blood War Anime Will Expand Manga's Story Junji Ito is the acclaimed storyteller of horrific stories that linger in a reader's mind, and here are works you should and shouldn't read of his. ![]()
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