FRAGMENTS OF HORROR HC JUNJI ITO: Volume 1

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Speaking of the book , it's a collection of stories so I will be reviewing each story , that way it's easier for me give the average rating at the end! Magami Nanakuse": The truth behind a literally-quirky author's work is far stranger than the fiction it inspires. Living Memory: In "Gentle Goodbye", Riko marries into a wealthy family who perform a ritual on their recently deceased to create an 'after-image', to give them plenty of time to say their farewells and accept their death. What she doesn't know was that she died on her wedding day, and she really is one such after-image.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish manuscripts penned between the third century B.C. and the first century A.D., include the oldest known fragments of the Hebrew Bible. Modern researchers first learned of the texts’ existence in the 1940s, when local Bedouin shepherds happened upon a set of the scrolls in the Qumran Caves.Atomic, Shelly (November 20, 2015). "Keeping It Ghastly: Fragments of Horror". Comics Bulletin. Archived from the original on September 28, 2021 . Retrieved January 6, 2018.

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Hairstyle Inertia: Ruriko Tamiya's hair does not change between her childhood and her death of old age. Nemuki Shōjo Manga Magazine Ceases Publication". Anime News Network. December 14, 2012 . Retrieved March 3, 2016. Offscreen Teleportation: In "Dissection-chan", Tatsuro, the doctor protagonist, has an encounter with the titular character at a park. He runs away to home, but she's already there, undressed on his bed, ready to be cut open. Drinking Contest: After an already awful first impression, Magami Nanakuse takes her fan Kaoru to her bar, hoping to humiliate her further with hard alcohol. To her surprise, Kaoru outdrinks her and shows some strength that Nanakuse thinks may lend to some inspiration... For years we chased after antiquities looters. We finally decided to pre-empt the thieves and try reaching the artifacts before they were removed from the ground and the caves,” said Amir Ganor, head of the IAA’s Theft Prevention Unit.As Andrew Lawler reported for Smithsonian magazine in 2010, researchers found around 15,000 scroll fragments between the late 1940s and early 1960s. Some of the scrolls include texts that are remarkably similar to later versions of biblical books, but with some subtle differences and additional material. Others set out regulations, forming the basis for legal commentaries in the Talmud. Luster, Joseph (June 30, 2015). "Fragments of Horror Delivers More Junji Ito Manga Frights". Otaku USA . Retrieved December 4, 2017. Viz Media Adds Junji Ito's Fragments of Horror Manga". Anime News Network. December 3, 2014 . Retrieved December 15, 2015.

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Magami Nanakuse" could be seen as a wry look at Ito's own role as an author (who frequently writes about obsession and compulsion, for that matter) taking inspiration from other artists and posing as a creator of a type he doesn't think he applies to (given the original Shōjo publication the stories ran in). The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. 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. Whispering Woman": A girl who cannot make decisions may be receiving too much guidance from her caretaker. This is an older, previously unattached story added into the Fragments anthology upon the serial's compiled publication.

Junji Ito nos regala un Epílogo final donde nos cuenta su proceso de creación de historias durante este tiempo y donde tiene unas palabras de agradecimiento hacia aquellos que lo han apoyado en este proyecto. Creepy Crossdresser: In "Magami Nanakuse", the eponymous author is portrayed as unsettling in multiple ways, being rude, crass, in control of bizarre physical tics, and by being an AMAB person who publicly presents as female. The character's personal gender identity isn't clarified but Nanakuse's presentation is not treated by the story as being genuine or respectable. In other words, the heroine now is the horror character, integrated like the protagonists of “Whispering Woman” at its denouement. Yet though she seems to have no autonomy at all, as her actions are only those anticipated by her loved ones, there is freedom, nonetheless, in constraints – by realizing her situation, the heroine does exactly what is expected, and concludes she is an inappropriate bride, abandoning faithless husband and icy home to embrace the purer, sexless love of her father, whom she now suspects will outlast her. A horror comic fit for your local purity ball! This is probably because, upon research, “Whispering Woman” turns out to be a much earlier story; it ran in 2009 in a different Asahi magazine, Shinkan, and its presence here is basically like that of “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” at the end of Gyo – it's a dessert, albeit one which some might find more appetizing than the main course. Between the creation of the Shinkan and Nemuki+ pieces, Itō drew Yuukoku no Rasputin, a six-volume adaptation of a political suspense novel that ran in the same magazine as Golgo 13 (so, very male-targeted); it's by far the longest sustained serial narrative he's ever attempted, and it could be the grind of production impressed on him some time-saving techniques. Akhtar, Zainab (August 5, 2015). "Fragments of Horror sees Junji Ito make an uneven return to the genre [review]". Comics & Cola . Retrieved January 6, 2018.

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A man is plagued by horrible visions and refuses to come out from under the covers of his futon. A solid but very short story. Looters and archaeologists alike have combed the Judean Desert since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls some 70 years ago. Aside from two silver scrolls engraved with the biblical Priestly Blessing (from the late 7th to early 6th century BCE) discovered in Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered the earliest known copies of the biblical books and span from circa 400 BCE to 300 CE. Emotivo relato sobre "rescatar" a aquellos que ya no están con nosotros y así tener más tiempo para despedirnos. Ito's work is indisputably distinctive, and his take on horror is wholly fresh and unusual. In the end, many of his talThere is a good deal of cultural precedence for this story. Simplistically, there is the 1977 Nobuhiko Ōbayashi film Hausu, an uninhibited barrage of experimental terror effects animating its sad story of, among other things, a girl who cannot abide her father marrying another woman now that her mother is dead. Itō's piece is far more single-minded (and not nearly as visually interesting), but the heroine's conflict is much the same: she objects to her father's new union, which she latently understands will annihilate their household. Contrast this with the lover-betrayers of every previously-discussed story in this book involving a female protagonist, and suddenly Itō seems a great deal more conservative. Ma no Kakera (魔の断片, also titled Shard of Evil or Fragments of Horror), is a series of short stories by Junji Ito. Kaoru Koketsu is a devoted fan of the novelist Magami Nanakuse, who is known for the unique tics that she endows her characters with. Kaoru prides herself in supposedly having tics similar to Nanakuse's characters, and imitates them for weeks at a time after reading Nanakuse’s works. After sending the author a letter, she is invited to meet her at her home, where she is unpleasantly surprised to find that Nanakuse is in fact a mean spirited, cross-dressing man, who accuses her of being a " tic faker". Despite the rather brash nature of this meeting, Kaoru agrees to join Nanakuse for drinks, eventually drinking so much that she passes out from alcohol intoxication, after which Nanakuse imprisons her in a dungeon under the house. In a meeting with the Town Association, Nanakuse explains that she had moved to the town because of its supernatural past; the land having been supposedly used for both burials and rituals of a supernatural and demonic nature. Kaoru awakens to find herself trapped in a cell, surrounded by people exhibiting various tics. Nanakuse arrives, and reveals that she takes her inspiration from the tics developed by the people she keeps imprisoned there in darkness, and has hopes that Kaoru will develop one that she has never seen before. Kaoru resolves not to move to keep from developing one. Three days later, Nanakuse enters her cell to find that she has become completely rigid and unable to move, her face contorted into a grotesque and deformed expression as a result of attempting to resist the urge to develop a tic. Nanakuse uses this as the basis of a novel titled Ultimate Tic before placing Kaoru in a glass case and donating her to the Town Association Hall, where she and the rest of the association proceed to laugh at her relentlessly.