Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu Collector's Edition: 2

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A-ko's appearance, with her almost entirely white eyes, has also been noted to share similarities with yokai, supernatural Japanese entities. His wife was generally fine with her depiction in the manga, but disliked that Ito drew her stand-in with very small pupils and striped pants. This story is about cat loving, it's about becoming a cat person - a true one, believe me, and about how these little furry assholes change everything when they arrive in our lives. Here though he’s telling simple and comedic moments about his own life with his fiancée and her two cats… but he’s a horror artist through and through, so how does he tell this tale?

Other than that, this is perfect and if you want to explore more of Junji Ito's work, but you're finding the horror hard to get into, this is the book for you! Junji Ito is a horror manga artist known best for exceptionally creative and terrifying works such as Uzumaki and Tomie.Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself purrsuaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain affection of his new feline friends. Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam [16] and Italian by Panini Comics. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself.

Style [ edit ] J-kun attempts to play with the cats, to no avail; his mouth becomes more horrific as he fails to capture their interest. But when both cats arrive, he swiftly descends into a breakdown because the cats don't love him as much as he discovers he loves them. King Yon" chronicles Yon's further unsuccessful attempt to escape, his unusual strength, and his position as dominant cat within the household. I feel that without prior knowledge of his works, this will come off as just a bizarre little book and many won’t get the joke.Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. But he soon finds himself lured in by the cuteness and wants the cat to love him as much as it does his wife. Reviewers enjoyed the narrative as a lighthearted window into pet caretaking, where the humor derived from the caretaker's response to the cats, rather than the cats' behavior. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections.

his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow - Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu an adorable Norwegian forest cat. Upon publication, the manga received a favorable critical and commercial response, debuting in The New York Times 's weekly list of the ten best-selling manga volumes. She names the kitten Mu, since he will be the sixth cat her family has kept, with her mother's cat, Goro, being the fifth.Alongside authors such as Maruo Suehiro and Kazuo Umezu, Junji Ito is well-known as one of Japan's greatest in the genre of horror manga. Horror comics author Junji Ito has recently purchased a new house and has decided to invite his girlfriend to move in with him.

I like both Ito and cats, so I find this pretty delightful, particularly in how it's still drawn like horror manga in typical Ito style, even though the content is all actually pretty normal. J, a dog person, was convinced into adopting two cats by his fiancee A-ko: Muu, a foreign cat, and Yun who has an accused face. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head; Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other; a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc.stars and a recommendation to those limited few who find the idea of a horror artist doing a cute comedy ridiculously amusing.